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What?is?the?French?influence?over?English?literature? The?French?influence?is?most?marked?in?the?drama.?Rimed?couplets?instead?of?blank verse,?the?unities,?a?more?regular?construction,?and?the?presentation?rather?than individual?—?these?were?some?of?the?French?requirements?which?the?English?dramatists had?more?or?less?in?mind.?The?comedies?are?coarse?in?language?and?their?view?of?the relations?between?men?and?women?is?immoral?and?dishonest. What?is?the?main?theme?of?Sonnet?18? This?poem?asserts?the?power?of?literature?to?combat?the?ravages?of?time?and?declare the?greatness?of?man?and?his?immortality.?Shakespeare?expresses?that?as?long?as?there are?breaths?in?mankind,?his?poetry?will?also?live?on,?and?ensures?the?immortality?of?his thought. What?are?the?features?of?Dickens’s?works? Dickens’s?novels?offer?a?most?complete?and?realistic?picture?of?the?English?bourgeois society?of?his?age.?They?reflect?the?protest?of?the?people?against?capitalist?exploitation; criticize?the?vices?of?capitalist?society. Dickens?is?a?petty?bourgeois?intellectual.?He?could?not?overstep?the?limits?of?his?class.?He failed?to?see?the?necessity?of?a?bitter?struggle?of?the?oppressed?against?their?oppressors. There?is?a?definite?tendency?for?a?reconciliation?of?the?contradictions?of?capitalist?society. Almost?all?his?novels?have?happy?endings.?His?novels?tell?much?of?the?experiences?of?his childhood.?Dickens?is?a?great?humorist.?His?novels?are?full?of?humor?and?laughter. What?are?the?common?features?of?the?novels?in?Victorian?Age? The?common?features?of?the?novels?in?Victorian?Age?are: a.?The?plot?is?unfolded?against?a?social?background. b.?The?cause-effect?sequence?is?much?more?striking. c.?Most?of?the?Victorian?novels?were?first?published?in?serial?form,?that?is,?by?installment, before?they?were?fully?published?in?a?single?book. d.?The?Victorian?novels?were?tainted?by?the?spirit?of?Puritanism?of?the?Victorian?age. e.?The?Victorian?novels?were?characterized?by?their?moral?purpose. 1.?Give?a?summ