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Essays 181 - 210
it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...
noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...
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 eight pages this paper discusses how Victorian theater was impacted by new technology in terms of staging and social culture. ...
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...
such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...
original composition, rather than critiquing others, their time would be much better employed. Wordsworth said that "A false or ma...
accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...
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...
by comparing his own life to a "twice-written scroll", bearing marks from both a pursuit of intellectual virtues, and a pursuit of...
In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the film, "Lincoln". Similarities to other works about the Victorian age, such as "...
are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...
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...
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...
the medieval period, Blackpool consisted of a "few coastal farmsteads within Layton-with-Warbreck" (Blackpool Council, 2005) and s...
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...
children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministe...
In eleven pages this paper discusses how women were marginalized in England's nineteenth century Victorian society. Four sources ...
In a paper consisting of 8 pages the theme of class and how it is represented in Bronte's title protagonist in terms of establishi...
This 6 page paper explores the status of women in the Victorian era by examining the way they are presented in three Hardy novels,...
This 6 page paper is a detailed explication of Thomas Hardy's poem, The Darkling Thrush. The writer argues that Hardy is using na...
This research paper offers an extensive overview of the work of Robert Browning and this poet fits within the context of Victorian...
In five pages this poetic analyzes what makes the poem Victorian in a consideration of style, tone, allegory, and theme. Three so...