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Essays 181 - 210
support of it. If Rousseau is a Romantic and Newman a Victorian, it seems that the difference lies in the fact that Rousseau wants...
In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...
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 ...
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
of literature which, although derived from the centre, must be constituted as peripheral since they do not follow in a direct line...
that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the way immigrant families are presented in Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marsh...
is the well read that appear to succeed in life, they have a broader base of knowledge from which to make judgements and decision....
noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...
womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...
that no manipulation of light and pose could have con- veyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed re...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
The angel required Woolf to participate in her writing only within boundaries, and without stepping passed cultural limitations. ...
such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...
are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...
values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...
suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...
be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....
the work is the subject, while the insights that occur as a result of the interactions of characters represents the theme. For ex...
elements of civilisation to the native Britons, and in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the Pax Britannica was frequentl...
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 ...
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...
in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...
jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...
This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...
embraced by the church. Although it is true that some denominations do not allow women to run things, many denominations such as t...