Essays Tagged: "victorian times"
What are the consequences of the suppression of the imagination of the Gradgrind Children? Refers to "In hard times" by Dickens
ore are not ready to tackle every day human life. The Gradgrind education system was very common in Victorian times and was probably devised by the many rich powerful people ready to employ the pupils ... ion to gambling, running gambling debts of up to one hundred pounds, which was lots of money in the Victorian times. When Tom is in financial debt, he turns to his sister for money, this shows how dep ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
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
This essay compares the programs of England's Prime Ministers, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disreli.
d four times as Prime Minister of Great Britain (1880-1885, 1868-1874, 1892-1894 and 1886) , during Victorian times. He got married in 1839 to Catherine Glynne, and had eight children together. In 185 ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Essay on 'A Christmas Carol,' and 'Through the Tunnel.'
other in different ways but are surprisingly similar in others. The fact that Dickens wrote in the Victorian times and Lessing produced a post 19th Century novel is reflected in their style of writin ... is not only conveys Scrooge's character but also portrays the hard times children go through in the Victorian times at this time of year. Dickens stresses the power and importance of these symbols to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
"The Lost World" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
What Can The Lost World Tell Us About Victorian Attitudes To Race Gender And The Environment?This book, though written in Victorian times, ... conversations and descriptions are drawn out longer than they would be in today's book, because in Victorian time's books were one of the few entertainments they could enjoy at home, whereas today we ... to be longer so it could be enjoyed for longer.The character of Gladys is stereotypical of women in Victorian times, that men need to do all the hard hero work while their wife basks in the reflected ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Compare the ways in which women are portrayed in 'Tony Kytes, the Arch- Deceiver' by Thomas Hardy (1894) and in 'Tickets, Please' by D. H. Lawrence (1922) GCSE A Grade
The short story was a popular genre in Victorian times. Often short stories would be printed in short, weekly chapters in magazines or news ... d have come as a shock when he didn't, she would have been jealous when he didn't.At this time, the Victorian times, the woman would traditionally wait for a man to approach them and Tony approached t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
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
How does Dickens in his portrayal of Miss Havisham explore the theme of isolation?
Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812, which is in the Victorian time. At that time there was a large divide between the rich and the poor, the working con ... nd prevented from improving and bettering their dangerous lives. Women were not looked up to in the Victorian times, women were dependent on men, unless they were rich, women were expected to serve an ... nhabitants, both rich and poor. Throughout Great Expectations, Dickens explores the class system of Victorian England, ranging from the most wretched criminals (Magwitch) to the poor peasants of the m ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
How does charles dickens portray the cratchit family in '' A Christmas Carol''
e Cratchit family?What part does this family play in Dickens's intentions for this novel? In Victorian times there was a big gap between middle and lower working class. The working day was 12-h ... en who lived on the streets and didn't have parents to run back to. A lot of the well-off people in Victorian times were concerned with the plight of the poor. There was a new law called The Poor Law, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
Analysis of Gwendolen in Oscar Wilde's'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST'
GWENDOLEN AND MARRIAGEIn Victorian times the custom of marriage was that 'an engagement should come upon a young girl as a su ... benefit a Year 11 audience. Oscar Wilde uses satire to expose the follies and vices of Upper Class Victorians, may of which are relevant to today's society also.The characters place great importance ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.
finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice."-- Charles Dickens.The treatment of the poor in Victorian times were terrible. The poor were incredibly deprived, with no housing or enough money to ... lies, unlike today, where poor means buying store brand products instead of popular brand names. In Victorian England the pace of industrialization was such that there was a large gap between the poor ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
Satire in "Great Expectations" by Charled Dickens.
How does Dickens criticize life during the Victorian times in the novel "Great Expectations"? Dickens uses satire to show the reality during Vi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
Children at work during the Victorians
rous. If they didn't do their work very well they were beaten.Children at work in the countrysideIn Victorian times lots of people still lived in the countryside, so children still had to work there. ... to pick out all the stones so the ploughs would not get damaged.Children at Work in the WorkhouseIn Victorian times, there were many very poor people who had to work in the workhouse. They were so cra ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
How are good and evil represented in "The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"?
how Robert Louis Stevenson achieves this.Robert Louis Stevenson set this short novella in London in Victorian times. London in Victorian times was full of dramatic inventions, the slow destruction of ... y in the small hours'The fog illustrates a very gloomy scene due to the fog being very thick in the Victorian times. This is a very good use of the weather to represent more sinister picture as the st ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Oscar Wilde V/S "The Importance of Being Earnest"
IWhen analyzing Oscar Wilde’s work within the context of Victorian times, I can assure that this author was the most important transgressor of his time. Osca ... The importance of being Earnest produces these glamorous scenes full of wit and style, reproducing Victorian characters but with no Victorian attitude and not in a Victorian style. English people in ... it, but they lack these smart and fluid conversations. Since characters act and say things a normal Victorian would love to act and say, we can enjoy these dialogues and laugh at Victorian typical men ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Jane eyres struggle for love
through the eyes of Jane; a strong character who wishes to overcome her birth rite as an orphan in Victorian times. From this viewpoint, we are able to trace how Jane progresses in her struggle for i ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Jane Eyre - Struggle for Love
through the eyes of Jane; a strong character who wishes to overcome her birth rite as an orphan in Victorian times. From this viewpoint, we are able to trace how Jane progresses in her struggle for i ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Scientific Management
ow Taylor (1856 - 1915). Taylor converted the authoritarian and spasmotic approach to management of Victorian times to a rigorously authoritarian but systematic approach. Taylor tested his new theory ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Parallels and Differences between Victorian Gothic Literature and Contemporary Medi
The themes of gender and sexuality in Victorian gothic literature echoed the public's uneasy views towards those who deviated from the str ... undred years ago, social commentary on gender and sexuality remains an ever present theme in media. Victorian gothic writers dissected the natural sexual and gender roles of men and women. They either ... outcasts, portraying their deviant attributes as repulsive or lamentable. The shift in opinion from Victorian times to present day can be seen in the movie Boys Don't Cry. It contains all the familiar ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Discuss the presentation of the murder of Nancy in 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens, paying particular attention to his use of setting, character and language.
o his use of setting, character and language.Oliver Twist was written by Charles Dickens and set in Victorian London, and in the late 1830's the novel was published which was also at the beginning of ... as a satirical social critique as Dickens is taking the Michael out of the way people lived in the Victorian times as he didn't agree with the standards of the terrible conditions of the workhouses. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers