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Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

Male Protagonists in Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice Compared

In five pages Edward Rochester and Fitzwilliam Darcy are contrasted and compared with the gentleman concept of the Victorian era a...

Gender Perceptions and Prostitution During the Victorian Age

way that different people were seen. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the...

Victorian Morality and An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...

Hard Times and Charles Dickens' Depiction of Industrialism

In eight pages this paper examines how Dickens' critiqued Victorian industrialism in his novel and then evaluates his social contr...

19th Century Literary Heroines The Woman in White and Madame Bovary

In five pages this paper considers the Victorian concept of feminine identity as depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White an...

Gender and the The Victorian Age

In ten pages the gender roles and rules associated with the Victorian Age are considered in an analysis of A Room with a View by E...

Judith Walkowitz's City of Dreadful Delight and Gender History

in other arenas. On the other hand, a womans ponderous role germane to pregnancy, menstruation (considered a time of illness, debi...

Homosexuality and Oscar Wilde

In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

Victorian Age and Changing Women's Roles

The underclass practically disappeared (1995). While this is the case, one has to understand how gender played a part in comprehe...

Victorian England and the Differences Between Men's and Women's Roles

era was a time of cultural renewal that saw significant declines in crime and social vices ("The Big," 1998). She also notes that ...

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

Portrayal of Women in Two Play by G.B. Shaw

that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...

"Helas" and the Victorian Hypocrisy

by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...

God in a Technical Age, Arnold and Hopkins

In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...

"Lincoln" - Aspects of the Victorian Age

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the film, "Lincoln". Similarities to other works about the Victorian age, such as "...

Blake, Dickens and Wilde and their Eras

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

Austen's "Pride and Prejudice": The Subversion of Victorian Stereotypes

Jane Austen is something of a pioneer. Along with her contemporaries, the Bront? sisters, she produced narrative works of great co...

A Doll’s House as a Example of an Oppressive Marriage

and rules governing marriage; these rules were very oppressive to women. This paper discusses what Victorian society expected from...

VicRoads; SWOT Analysis of the Outscoring Strategy

to provide voice and data network traffic, and Mincom who beat PeopleSoft and SAP for the five year $7 million contract (Bajkowski...

History of Wedding Dresses

weddings resembled pagan festivals and most of then involved the celebration of spring (important planting season for these agricu...

Women's Voices: Kate Chopin and Luisa Valenzuela

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

Women in the Church: A Historical Overview

embraced by the church. Although it is true that some denominations do not allow women to run things, many denominations such as t...

Heroism and the Life Example of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...

'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...

Analysis of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...