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    Taine, a French historian, proposed that an author is a product of their race, environment (milieu), and historical moment. According to Taine, race refers to a person's temperament, milieu means their physical and social surroundings, and moment means the era of national development. However, other scholars argued that an author's personality and self-expression also influence their work, and great authors combine these factors with their own qualities. Additionally, Taine only considered how the age influences the author, not how famous authors can influence and affect their own era through their ideas.

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    Taine, a French historian, proposed that an author is a product of their race, environment (milieu), and historical moment. According to Taine, race refers to a person's temperament, milieu means their physical and social surroundings, and moment means the era of national development. However, other scholars argued that an author's personality and self-expression also influence their work, and great authors combine these factors with their own qualities. Additionally, Taine only considered how the age influences the author, not how famous authors can influence and affect their own era through their ideas.

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    Taine, a French historian, proposed that an author is a product of their race, environment (milieu), and historical moment. According to Taine, race refers to a person's temperament, milieu means their physical and social surroundings, and moment means the era of national development. However, other scholars argued that an author's personality and self-expression also influence their work, and great authors combine these factors with their own qualities. Additionally, Taine only considered how the age influences the author, not how famous authors can influence and affect their own era through their ideas.

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    Taine, a French historian, proposed that an author is a product of their race, environment (milieu), and historical moment. According to Taine, race refers to a person's temperament, milieu means their physical and social surroundings, and moment means the era of national development. However, other scholars argued that an author's personality and self-expression also influence their work, and great authors combine these factors with their own qualities. Additionally, Taine only considered how the age influences the author, not how famous authors can influence and affect their own era through their ideas.

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    Analyse Taine’s formula of the reace, the mileu and the moment:

    Taine, a French historian used a scientific method to study an author. According to him, all individuals
    are products of the forces governed by the race, the milieu and the moment.

    According to him, race means temperament of the people. Milieu means physical environment and
    social conditions of author and moment means the era of national development. On the basis of these
    forces, we can study an author.

    Drawback of Taine’s formula:

    This scientific method has some drawbacks, too. He says that an author’s literature comprises of above
    three forces but its not so according to other scholars. Personality also effect literature of an author.
    Self- expression is also a force which effects the literature of an author. Great scholar said an author
    combines his personal qualities with these above forces.

    Author too affects the age:

    Taine only talks how age affects the author and not talks about how author affects the age. For example,
    many writers like Shakespeare, Dickens and Browning affected Victorian Literature by their ideas. Such
    writers believes in idea of individuality i.e. author’s importance whereas Taine’s scientific formula
    neglects individuality of the the writer.

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