YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Victorian Critic and Poet Matthew Arnold
Essays 361 - 390
more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...
elements of civilisation to the native Britons, and in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the Pax Britannica was frequentl...
In her novels, Eliot seems to rail against the fact that a woman must be a certain type of person and act a certain way...
(Arnold 2062). Expressionism : A movement that affected both painting and literature that attempted to exceed impressionism in "...
chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...
jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...
a child will enjoy it to some extent, but it is safe to say that this poem was not intended for the young, though it may very well...
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...
values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...
In eight pages this paper discusses how Victorian theater was impacted by new technology in terms of staging and social culture. ...
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...
despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...
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...
that no manipulation of light and pose could have con- veyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed re...
of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...
police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers (van Dijk, 2002). Prior to 1970, v...
The angel required Woolf to participate in her writing only within boundaries, and without stepping passed cultural limitations. ...
accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...
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,...
was a time of free trade. This was a theory of self regulation; this can be seen as an optimistic idea. The invisible hand was t...
In ten pages English melodrama during the Victorian Age is analyzed in terms of message and tone of style in a comparison and cont...
formula which would ensure the future of the white minority into the next century (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition ...
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...
evolving its consumer values, wrote the poem as a demonstration of how society was responsible for illustrating female desires as ...
she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...
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...