YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Change and the Victorian Age
Essays 241 - 270
that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...
and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...
she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...
Ruskin argued vehemently against the issue of slavery. Basically, he reasoned that men and women are no different from one anothe...
is described by Ovid as having unending youth, eternal boyhood: however, one of the points which Wilde is making is that Dorian is...
point out that the number eight when laid on its side is the sign for infinity and that there is much to suggest that Molly is the...
chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...
formula which would ensure the future of the white minority into the next century (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition ...
(Arnold 2062). Expressionism : A movement that affected both painting and literature that attempted to exceed impressionism in "...
elements of civilisation to the native Britons, and in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the Pax Britannica was frequentl...
woman likes her surroundings and it is clear that she likes them orderly. A young woman who was not immersed somehow in the idea o...
great inner pain and conflict as does Flora. She refuses to give in to the superstitions which seem to govern the lives of her rel...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...
such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...
an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...
original composition, rather than critiquing others, their time would be much better employed. Wordsworth said that "A false or ma...
The angel required Woolf to participate in her writing only within boundaries, and without stepping passed cultural limitations. ...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
that no manipulation of light and pose could have con- veyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed re...
suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...
values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...
In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...
In five pages Edward Rochester and Fitzwilliam Darcy are contrasted and compared with the gentleman concept of the Victorian era a...
in other arenas. On the other hand, a womans ponderous role germane to pregnancy, menstruation (considered a time of illness, debi...
In five pages this paper considers the Victorian concept of feminine identity as depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White an...