YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Religious Poetry of the Victorian Age
Essays 271 - 300
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...
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...
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...
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...
comes to represent the underdog of lifes unrelenting disappointments, forever struggling with issues of control. "The subsidiary ...
the medieval period, Blackpool consisted of a "few coastal farmsteads within Layton-with-Warbreck" (Blackpool Council, 2005) and s...
that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...
of Empire" (pp. 19- 20). The second wave of the British Empire expansion and the development of photography coincided, and as a n...
Jane Austen is something of a pioneer. Along with her contemporaries, the Bront? sisters, she produced narrative works of great co...
and rules governing marriage; these rules were very oppressive to women. This paper discusses what Victorian society expected from...
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...
This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...
by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...
In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...
original composition, rather than critiquing others, their time would be much better employed. Wordsworth said that "A false or ma...
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,...
jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...
elements of civilisation to the native Britons, and in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the Pax Britannica was frequentl...
emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...
therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
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...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
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...
The angel required Woolf to participate in her writing only within boundaries, and without stepping passed cultural limitations. ...
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...