“the stylistic analysis and comparison of the protagonists in ‘don quixote’ and ‘sorrows of young werther’ and their socio-cultural and stylistic effects”
| dc.contributor.author | Zujajah Naqvi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-20T08:03:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-20T08:03:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Miguel de Cervantes is a great Spanish writer. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes ("the language of Cervantes"). His novel; ‘The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha’ is considered to be the first modern European novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written. The protagonist of the novel ‘Don Quixote’ became very popular and had great cultural, social, artistic and linguistic impacts. The Quixotic effect influenced the society and arts greatly. Similarly, Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe was a great German Writer. The classical novel; ‘Sorrows of Young Werther’ was the first and was the most significant masterpieces of Goethe and it contributed to the Sturm and Drang literary movement in German literature. The protagonist; Werther also became very popular and had great cultural, social and artistic impacts. The Werther-fever; a term given by Napolean Bonaparte, had great impact on society and arts so much so that youngsters were emotionally influenced by ‘Werther’ and dressed like him; they even commited suicides like him. The present study focused on the literary stylistic analysis of the language of the two protagonists; Don Quixote and Werther. The main objectives of the research were to discover: ‘What are the different lexical field categories (exclamatives, adjectives, adverbs, nouns, intensifiers; quantifiers, qualifiers and verbs) used in the selected dialogues of Don Quixote and Sorrows of Young Werther? And what is the intensity of using each lexical category in both the novels? What are the different important vocabulary items used in the novels? What are their meanings? What is the comparison of proper nouns and common nouns’ vocabulary items in both the novels (‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Sorrows of Young Werther’) ? How did the great novels ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Sorrows of Young Werther’ become so popular and legendary and which vocabulary words (lexical items) of Proper Nouns (of famous names, terms and historical characters) made them classical novels? What is the lexical stylistic analysis? How the vocabulary items and lexical categories as: exclamatives, adjectives, adverbs, nouns, intensifiers and verbs contribute towards the emotional and loaded language of the protagonists? What is the comparison of emotional language of Don Quixote and Young Werther? What is the literary stylistic analysis of ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Sorrows of Young Werther’ and how can we compare the novels stylistically? What language made the protagonists of the two novels so effective socially and culturally? And ‘What effects the two novels had on society and culture of arts?’ The novels were completely studied and analyzed to find out and calculate the use of proper nouns references used by the Protagonists. Apart from that, 200 dialogues used by each of the protagonists (Don Quixote and Werther) were randomly selected from both the novels and were stylistically analyzed and compared according to the stylistic analysis model given by Geoffrey N. Leech and Micheal H. Short (1981) and Professor Ismail S. Talib (2005). It was found out through mixed method (quali-quantitative analysis) that Don Quixote became famous because of his rich use of language and wise and proverbial sayings referring to all the world and life whereas Young Werther became popular because of his extremely emotional and flowery language. Both the protagonists had strong impacts on society and culture of arts because of their unique style of language. It was concluded finally that ‘The language of ‘Don Quixote’ has greater use of subject tools, rich vocabulary; proper nouns and connotative references, greater use of intensifiers; more intensity, adverbial and action vocabulary richness whereas Werther’s language is simpler and less intense; it uses lesser adverbs, lesser intensifiers, lesser nouns, much lesser proper nouns but it uses much more verbs and exclamatory expressions that makes its’ language much more emotional and moving as compared to Don Quixote whose language is practical, witty and proverbial.’ | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/11021 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | UMT Lahore | |
| dc.title | “the stylistic analysis and comparison of the protagonists in ‘don quixote’ and ‘sorrows of young werther’ and their socio-cultural and stylistic effects” | |
| dc.type | Thesis |
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