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such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...
those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...
despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...
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...
the medieval period, Blackpool consisted of a "few coastal farmsteads within Layton-with-Warbreck" (Blackpool Council, 2005) and s...
pendant or brooch (DeNunzio, 2005). The social, political and economical impact of the arts has been vast and encompassing ...
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...
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...
In eight pages this paper discusses how Victorian theater was impacted by new technology in terms of staging and social culture. ...
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...
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,...
original composition, rather than critiquing others, their time would be much better employed. Wordsworth said that "A false or ma...
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...
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. ...
In ten pages English melodrama during the Victorian Age is analyzed in terms of message and tone of style in a comparison and cont...
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...
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...
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...
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...
poor. "This specialisation and - by implication - individualisation of labour was in marked contrast to the rural means of product...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...