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Research
Riona Rahman
class 6 , Earth , Roll - 4
 ABOUT
NOVEL
Submitted to Badrul Huda
 Abstract ~
What is a NOVEL?
Novel, an invented prose narrative of
considerable length and a certain
complexity that deals imaginatively with
human experience, usually through a
connected sequence of events involving a
group of persons in a specific setting. the
genre of the novel has encompassed an
extensive range of types and styles:
picaresque, epistolary, Gothic, romantic,
realist, historical—to name only some of the
more important ones.
Research
Instrument ~
Canva , laptop and keyboard are
the instruments i have used in this
research
Objective ~
To learn about novel
To learn about the types of novel they
are
To able to learn about the features
and the elements of novel
To learn what type of novel is matilda
Description ~
What are the features of novel ?
Describe them briefly .
A novel can accommodate an almost infinite
number of elements. Some of the novel's
typical elements, though, are the story or plot,

the narrative
the character , the setting,
method and point of view, and the scope or

dimension.
Plot - The novel is propelled through its
hundred or thousand pages by a device known
as the story or plot. This is constantly
conceived by the novelist in truly simple terms, a
bare nucleus, a jotting on an old envelope for
illustration, Charles Dickens ’ Christmas Carol(
1843) might have been conceived as “ a
misanthrope is reformed through certain
magical visits on Christmas Eve, ”
 Character -The inferior novelist tends to be preoccupied
with the plot; to the higher novelist
complications of the natural personality, under the stress
of the artfully elected experience, are the principal
fascination. Without character, it was ancestry accepted
that there could be no fiction. Since World War II, the
creators of what has come to be called the French
nouveau roman( i.e., new novel) have advisedly demoted the
human element, claiming the right of objects and
processes to the writer’s and reader’s prior attention.
Thus, in books termed choice ( literally “ thing- ist ”), they
make the decorations of a room more major than its
natural incumbents. It may seem like a transitory protest
against the long predominance of characters in the novel,
yet, even in the worldwide position, there have been
suggestions that readers can be held on to things as
much as by characters.
Setting -The makeup and behavior of
fictional characters depend on their
environment quite as much as on the
personal dynamic with which their
author endows them: indeed, in Émile
Zola, the natural being is of
overriding significance since he
believed it committed character. The
entire action of a novel is often
insistent on the locale in which it
settled
 Narrative method and point of view-
Where there is a story, there is a
storyteller. Traditionally, the narrator of
the epic and mock epic similarly acted as
an intermediary between the characters
and the reader; the method of Fielding is
not very different from the method of
Homer. Sometimes the narrator boldly
imposed his attitude; every time

he assumed an omniscience that tended to

reduce the characters to puppets and the
action to a predetermined course with an
end implicit in the beginning
 Scope, or dimension -No novel can
theoretically be too long, but if it is
less it ceases to be a novel. It may
or may not be accidental that the
stories most highly regarded by the
world are of considerable length—
Cervantes’ Don Quixote,
Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov,
Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Dickens’
David Copperfield, Proust’s À la
recherche du temps perdu, and many
more.

What are the major types of novel?

Describe two of them briefly .

The novel has an extensive range of

types, among them being: historical,
picaresque, sentimental, Gothic,
psychological, novel of manners,
epistolary, pastoral, roman à clef,
antinovel, cult, detective, mystery,
thriller, western, fantasy, and
proletarian.
 History -The hack novelist, to
whom speedy output is more
important than art, thought, and
originality, history provides ready-
made plots and characters. A
novel on Alexander the Great or
Joan of Arc can be as flimsy and
superficial as any schoolgirl
romance. But historical themes,
to which may be added
prehistoric or mythical ones, have
inspired the greatest novelists, as
Tolstoy’s War and Peace and
Stendhal’s Charterhouse of
Parma reveal
Psychological - The psychological novel first
appeared in 17th-century France, with
Madame de La Fayette’s Princesse de Clèves
(1678), and the category was consolidated
by works like the Abbé Prévost’s Manon
Lescaut (1731) in the century following.
More primitive fiction had been
characterized by a proliferation of action
and incidental characters; the psychological
novel limited itself to a few characters
whose motives for action could be examined
and analyzed.
 Notes

What type of novel is "Matilda"?

Explain.
Matilda is a children's novel
written by British writer Roald
Dahl and illustrated by Quentin
Blake. It was published in 1988 by
Jonathan Cape. The story features
Matilda Wormwood, a precocious
child with an uncaring mother
and father, and her time in school
run by the tyrannical
headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
Date:
 Other Interesting
things ~
Other interesting things i have
learned about novels is that A good
novel always has a strong plot that
engages the reader from beginning to
end. The plot is the backbone of the
story and must be well crafted to
engage the reader. A well-plotted novel
has a clear beginning, middle, and
end, with exciting twists along the
way.
Conclusion ~
A novel is an invented prose narrative of
significant length and complexity that
deals imaginatively with human
experience. Its roots can be traced back
thousands of years, though its origins in
English are traditionally placed in the

18th century.
References ~
I took help from google ,
Wikipedia and my friends
and of course myself :)