DECORUM
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Decorum means a behaviour that is appropriate in a social situation. In literature the decorum is the fittingness of characters, actions, the style of narration and dialogues to each other with a literary genre.
For example the highest and most serious genre, epic and tragedy presented characters of the highest social classes. They speak in the ‘High Style’.The classical theory is the base of the Doctrine. especially the versified essay on the ‘Art of Poetry by Horace.’ It achieved a highly complicated form in the criticism and practice of literature in the Renaissance. The Renaissance authors were careful to have kings speak in a “high” style in majestic blank verse, old men in serious style, clowns in prose and shepherds in a rustic style. In the neo-classic age decorum became the grand masterpiece to observe.
In the strictest application of this concept, literary genres, characters, and style were all ordered in hierarchies, or “levels,” from high through middle to low. They had to be matched to one another. Epic and tragedy are the Highest and most serious Genres which represented characters of the highest social classes “i.e. kings and nobility,” with high style speaking.
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