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Essays 241 - 270
do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...
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...
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...
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...
accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...
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...
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. ...
narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...
She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...
into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...
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...
jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...
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...
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 ten pages English melodrama during the Victorian Age is analyzed in terms of message and tone of style in a comparison and cont...
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 ...
formula which would ensure the future of the white minority into the next century (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition ...
chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...
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...