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Essays 271 - 300
This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...
In five pages this paper considers the Victorian concept of feminine identity as depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White an...
era was a time of cultural renewal that saw significant declines in crime and social vices ("The Big," 1998). She also notes that ...
do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...
(Longman, 2001). Others, however, bravely forged away from tradition and convention. Longman (2001, PG) notes:...
time she was thirty years old. In Victorian England, it was normal for girls to marry young, and Mary Ann was unusual in that she ...
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...
merely an attendant. Prufrock states, "No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;/Am an attendant loud, one that will do/To ...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...
jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...
to her poetry is the element of history. For Rich, the "sea is another story/ the sea is not a question of power / I have to lea...
elements of civilisation to the native Britons, and in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the Pax Britannica was frequentl...
noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...
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...
shown in his marriage to Rosamond. She is from a very wealthy family and insists that Lyndgate keep her in a manner to which she h...
to speak a plainer and more emphatic language. This, then, is at the heart of the divide between humanists, such as Wordsworth, a...
she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...
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...
modernist writing was meant as a contrast to the traditional approach in that it could recognize how fast the world was changing a...
futility and anarchy (of) contemporary history": this is not to say that such a structure need be formal and stylised, only that i...
is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...
bottle we buy. All we have to do is look at the contents of most plastic bottles such as for shampoo, lotion, juices, and milk, an...
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...
on the artistic forms of that day and time were not from the artists themselves, but from the ideas and influences of all the scho...
Eliot provides us with a very intricate look at the aristocracy from these various perspectives. At first we are given the useless...