Essays Tagged: "Victorian era"
Contrasting the View upon Nayure between Two 20th Century Poets, D.H. Lawrence and Karl Shapiro
With it's non-classical views, the twentieth century is one of the most influential eras. While the Victorian era practiced traditional values, the twentieth century influences techniques of love and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Alfred Tennyson
urth of twelve children of George and Elizabeth Tennyson. Tennyson, said to be the best poet of the Victorian era and his poetry will be discussed in this essay.Tennyson had a lifelong fear of mental ... friends all his life.Arthur Hallam was the most important of these friendships. Hallam, a brilliant Victorian young man was recognized by his peers as having unusual promise. He and Tennyson knew each ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Ibsens "Doll House"
problems.It was the first in a series investigating the tensions of family life.Written during the Victorian era, the controversial play featuring a femaleprotagonist seeking individuality stirred up ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
"Jane Eyre" (Charlotte Bronte), The Feminist Tract
and approach. Bronte found her motivation from theexperiences she had undergone while living in the Victorian era.Her approach in advocating social reform is to establish Jane asa model for readers. R ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Child Rearing in the Victorian Era
who in a way may have endured the same pain of those who were not as fortunate.Child rearing in the Victorian times was not at all similar to child rearing today. There were of course two different ca ... to the other. They were the difference of the classes. The life of an upper class child during the Victorian era, was as one may put it, stuffy, conventional and routine, not to mention quite lonely ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
A critical look at Ibsen's "A Doll house"
problems.It was the first in a series investigating the tensions of family life.Written during the Victorian era, the controversial play featuring a femaleprotagonist seeking individuality stirred up ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Oliver Twist: describe the basic traits of a central character and explain how society has shaped these traits.
s way up from a life of poverty and debtor's prison, to become a writer of national acclaim. In his Victorian era, he was an exception to the rule because it was very difficult to break through the ba ... ns and increase their labor. In describing the orphanages and workhouses, Dickens is portraying the Victorian belief in Malthusian economics which holds that population would increase too dramatically ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
Drama and how it got started
t Greek, to the largely imaginary settings of the Elizabethan era and the elaborate costumes of the Victorian era. Today the effects used by the directors of movies are changing the lighting, the came ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
"The Importance of Being Earnest." by Oscar Wilde.
e of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, beyond any reasonable doubt, makes noteworthy comments about the Victorian era. In this "trivial comedy for serious people," Wilde makes some very interesting commen ... and comical situations are used.Throughout the play, Wilde brings out numerous observations on the Victorian era in different characters. In the first couple of acts, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
The Victorian Painting - 'The Sempstress', by Richard Redgrave
The Victorian era was one of great change in not only the arts, but also society at large. Brittan saw i ... her social issue, the 'woman question' . A leading example of such Redgrave works, and more broadly Victorian art, is 'The Sempstress' of 1844 (first version) which this essay will examine and analyze ... ,000 dressmakers in England . The second House of Commons report was released in 1843, shocking the Victorians with horror stories of the dismal life of the sempstress . The report noted the bodily dy ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
The Victorian Era.
The Victorian Era was from the crowning of Queen Victoria in 1837 until her death in 1901, it was an era ... s in science, particularly the theory of evolution and the historical study of the Bible. This drew Victorians into considerations of problems of faith and truth. Christianity has always played an inf ... ligion is just a belief that is not support by any scientifically solid evidence. Therefore, in the Victorian age, of scientific enlightenment, the power of church was shaken by ideologies such as Dar ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations".
is a novel of social realism in the sense that it illustrates the lifestyles of most people in the Victorian era. Dickens uses the distinctive traits of characters, comical exaggeration of caricature ... ating her company, they realise the importance of being named as a successor on her will.During the Victorian period, great disparities arose in the attitudes of different classes. The lower classes w ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde protrays the culture of the Victorian Era.
, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought, and through history, the Victorian Era has been one of the most influential times in English history. In the book "Dr Jekyll ... venson, the author uses images of crime, urban life, and in heritance to portray the culture of the Victorian Era.The gruesome crimes committed by Mr Hyde reflect the views of his animalistic and lowe ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
How "Great Expectations" reflects the values and attitudes of its time.
novel through the use of various techniques, such as imagery, characterisation and irony.During the Victorian Era great differences arose in relation to attitudes towards class. The lower classes were ... and Compeyson was involved in crime. Dickens is suggesting here that some of the upper class in the Victorian Era were no better than many of the lower class civilians.Money was also an important valu ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
The conditions of women during the Victorian Era in England. Used in a class presentation in 2nd year of Philology.
We chose Act 3 for our presentation because it reflects women's lifestyle during the Victorian Era. Women of the mid- 19th century had no choices. Most lived in a state little better th ... so they did not have the same rights. For instance, they didn't have the right to vote. During the Victorian Era the Suffragist movement was born and many associations like "National Women Suffrage A ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
The Life and Times of Queen Victoria The Life and Times of Victoria by Dorothy Marshall
ing monarch in British history. Her reign of sixty-three years seven months came to be known as the Victorian era. Queen Victoria was not only the ruler of the United Kingdom, but also the British Emp ... t matter for her. Queen Victoria was remarkably informed about the British Empire. India alone gave Victorian Britain cheap materials and a market for British factory goods.Queen Victoria's reign witn ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
"Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.
Great ExpectationsThe theme of isolation is directly reflected in the time it was written, the Victorian era. Women during this period were dependent on men, unless they were rich. Miss Havisham, ... blic life. Women were also expected to "serve" and obey their husbands.Miss Havisham a woman of the Victorian era is isolated, and this is firstly shown by the state of her house, and her appearance. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
Children's Literature in the Victorian Era (with footnotes, citations, and images)
The time when Queen Victoria I was in rule, known as the Victorian Era, played host to an abundance of children's literature, appearing in such forms as the ... at teaching children morals and religion, they were aimed at simply entertaining them2. Before the Victorian Era, there were basically two types of children's books: pious books preaching hellfire an ... different types of juvenile literature.One form of literature that became gained popularity in the Victorian Age was the fairy tale. Although it had been around for centuries, this type of writing wa ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Charlotte Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper gives readers insight of the oppressive standards Victorian era woman were expected to uphold to and the emergence of the then nascent feminist moveme ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Victorian Period: A Time for Drastic Change. Does Wuthering Heights Accurately Represent the Victorian Period?
The Victorian period was a time filled with changes such as the women's rights movement, which drastical ... equals among men, instead of being treated as servants, and their opinions were important. Thus the Victorian Era was a start of a period of significant changes which affected the literary world which ... significant changes which affected the literary world which now had the contributions of women.The Victorian era expresses the time of Queen Victoria's rule from 1837-1901, which was an era of expans ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American