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and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

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...

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 described by Ovid as having unending youth, eternal boyhood: however, one of the points which Wilde is making is that Dorian is...

Ruskin argued vehemently against the issue of slavery. Basically, he reasoned that men and women are no different from one anothe...

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

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...

poor. "This specialisation and - by implication - individualisation of labour was in marked contrast to the rural means of product...

of Empire" (pp. 19- 20). The second wave of the British Empire expansion and the development of photography coincided, and as a n...

authors here Addison and Alexander Pope as well as Swift, Steele and influences from Voltaire. In the age of Johnson between abo...

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 ...

comes to represent the underdog of lifes unrelenting disappointments, forever struggling with issues of control. "The subsidiary ...

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...

to arise in the world of literature, and poems that were fictional, rather than based on actual events (Medieval Life.net). ...

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

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

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

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

For example, in most cases, the small amount of money paid allotted for the babies care was pocketed by the women charged with car...

may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...

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

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

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

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

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