Essays Tagged: "victorian england"
Shakespeare's World
few can boast that a time or place is so exclusively theirs. As we talk about Napoleonic Europe or Victorian England, so we speak of Shakespearean London or the Age of Shakespeare. No other artist, l ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Review of Jane Austen's Persuasion
ne and a misunderstanding of his easy nature. The breach had brought great unhappiness to Anne. Pre-Victorian England offers a romantic and whimsical backdrop for the characters.When the story opens A ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Benjamin Disraeli: An Analytical Comparison of the Victorian Age Intellectual with Contemporaries Charles Dickens and Thomas Carlyle
ke many politicos of his day, however, Disraeli was heavily involved in issues of the common man of Victorian England, such as expanding suffrage to all taxpaying men, improving health facilities and ... many intellectuals of his time with whom he concurred and deterred about prevailing matters within Victorian England.There is the aspect of Disraeli's actual writing style that could be considered su ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Contraception
andeye-catching penis covers. By the 18th century, condoms were being made from sheepintestines. In Victorian England, sexual stimulation was believed to shorten one's life, sosex once a month was con ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality
The crimes, the people who solved them, and the different types of punishments
mostly property crimes and disputeswhich made up 90% of all crimes committed by the upper-class. In Victorian Englandandlike today there a two categories which crimes fall under. 'Indictable' which is ... Prostitution, Minor Larceny , and all other minor offenses.Probably the most famous criminal in the Victorian period was ' Jack the Ripper '.Jack the Ripper was ' the first modern sexual serial killer ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Femenism in "Jane Eyre" by Austen
er, Jane Eyre, explores the depth at which women may act in society and finds her own boundaries in Victorian England. As well, along with the notions of feminism often follow the subjects of class di ... overness. Although today a tutor may be considered a fairly high class and intellectual job, in the Victorian era a governess was little more than a servant who was paid to share her scarce amount of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
John Collier and his short stories. Compares the short stories with a common theme
here he died of a stroke on April 6, 1980. Collier was a writer of the 1920's era, educated in post-Victorian England, and according to Anthony Burgess in the London Times. He was known for 'literary ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
An Analysis of ASA Briggs "Victorian People"
An Analysis of ASA Briggs Victorian PeopleVictorian People, by ASA Briggs, tells a unique story about the mid- Victorian perio ... with the second reform Bill of 1867. The period from 1851 to 1867 is considered the period of high Victorian England. The social balance produced a distinctive civilization of its own. ASA Briggs use ... s in beliefs affected English politics. The unity of a period can be shown in various ways. "In mid-Victorian England the balance was so nicely adjusted that it permitted order and change." (Briggs, p ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
TITLE: The comparison of portrayal of Miss Havisham in 'Great Expectations' and Boo Radley in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
the story. In comparison 'Great Expectations' is set in mid-nineteenth century. It is set in early Victorian England, a time when great social changes were sweeping the nation, there was division bet ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
Crime and Punishment.
mostly property crimes and disputes which made up 90% of allcrimes committed by the upper-class. In Victorian England and liketoday there a two categories which crimes fall under. "Indictable"which is ... Prostitution, Minor Larceny , and all otherminor offenses.Probably the most famous criminal in the Victorian periodwas " Jack the Ripper ". Jack the Ripper was " the first modern sexualserial killer" ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
The Vampire: What boundaries does it threaten?
_____________________________________________The Vampire in Dracula threatens the very existence of Victorian England. Stoker constructs the vampire as an embodiment of threat by surpassing his Gothic ... of threat by surpassing his Gothic novelist predecessors to bring the threat of the Gothic home to Victorian England (Arata 119). This in turn crosses the boundary between what is foreign and what is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
'To what extent are the female characters represented in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles ' stereotypical to women living in rural England in the mid 19th century?'
male charactors and to what extent they are perceived as stereotypes. Thomas Hardy lived during the Victorian period his experience in Victorian England shaped the novel. Tess, which was first seriali ... acter you will simply see the female stereotypes that were commonly used in that period of time. In Victorian England women were seen to be the 'angel in the home'. Women would have the duty of bringi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Pygmalion and Equality
y to achieve and succeed in every aspect of life, by revealing the absurdity of the class system of Victorian England. This belief goes strongly against Victorian era's views of social stature; social ... actly the same person, and yet she was treated so vastly differently. This exposes absurdity of the Victorian era social system, for one's social standing was based on nothing more than one's lineage ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
The English Working Class Reception to Darwin's theories
Charles Darwin didn't just have an impact on the scientific community of Victorian England; he had an impact on the masses as well. His theories had a very important impact ... n the first 10 years preceding its publication. This number seems almost insignificant, compared to Victorian England's population of almost 30 million. This suggests that although scientific literatu ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
Alice in Wonderland: A Curious Child
Child by Nina Auerbach. Auerbach discussed how Alice is a representation of a middle class child in Victorian England. Victorian children were expected to be able to recite rules and lessons. Auerbach ... ed to be able to recite rules and lessons. Auerbach believed that Alice is a perfect example of the Victorian mindset and a way to see into ones psyche. Who dreamed it shows a part of the Victorian qu ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Charles Dickens' Hard Times: A Look At Then And Now.
Hard Times by Charles Dickens is a very dismal tale of Victorian England at the period of industrialization. In the novel, Dickens controversially depicts ... vel, Dickens controversially depicts various injustices he sees happening within England during the Victorian Era and places them in Hard Times. The imaginary town in which the book takes place is cal ... ut is actually based on the non-fictional town of Preston, England. Dickens stayed at Preston while Victorian workers went on strike. He wanted to creatively feed off their energy and struggle which h ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Social criticism in The Great Gatsby and Great Expectations
ader through the use of characterization and setting. Great Expectations was written and set in mid-Victorian England, having been first published as a serial in "All The Year Round" a weekly English ... cal. Dickens used this form of publication to incrementally dose his readers with his criticisms of Victorian English Society. In this work the writer uses setting to influence character; thereby show ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens. How does Charles Dickens expose Victorian society's awful treatment of children of the poor?
The treatment of the poor in Victorian times were terrible. The poor were incredibly poor, with no housing or enough money to sup ... t their families, unlike today, where poor means buying economy products instead of brand names. In Victorian England the pace of industrialisation was such that there was a large gap between the poor ... e because of his poverty and the poverty was caused simply because of the time era that he lived in.Victorian London was a time of industrial progress but in the social aspect, it was terrible. The ga ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
A Book Review on Tess of d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Brief analysis on the characterisation, imagery, use of language, themes etc.
f D'Urbervilles is written by Thomas Hardy and is first published in 1891. The story is set back in Victorian England when sexual and social hypocrisy could be found in the society. The book was very ... e society. The book was very controversial at that time because of the critiques towards the strict Victorian moral code. The novel centers around a young woman, Tess, who struggles to find her place ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Relationship between Pygmalian and its appropriation SHes all that and their respective context and how it provides insight into how values have been maintained and changed
o appropriate the Pygmalion myth to reflect the values and cultural beliefs possessed by society in Victorian England. Similarly, Iscove uses cinematic techniques such as setting, dialogue and costume ... aw creates his own version of the Pygmalion myth by translating this allegory to reflect society in Victorian England. In doing so, he exposes the inadequacy of myth and of romance in several ways. Fo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers