YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Gender and the The Victorian Age
Essays 271 - 300
In a paper consisting of 9 pages the anti Victorian sentiments that are expressed with great subtlety throughout the poem in terms...
the medieval period, Blackpool consisted of a "few coastal farmsteads within Layton-with-Warbreck" (Blackpool Council, 2005) and s...
comes to represent the underdog of lifes unrelenting disappointments, forever struggling with issues of control. "The subsidiary ...
of Empire" (pp. 19- 20). The second wave of the British Empire expansion and the development of photography coincided, and as a n...
In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...
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...
suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...
such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...
are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...
great inner pain and conflict as does Flora. She refuses to give in to the superstitions which seem to govern the lives of her rel...
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...
The angel required Woolf to participate in her writing only within boundaries, and without stepping passed cultural limitations. ...
values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...
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...
she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...
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...
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...
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...
jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...
elements of civilisation to the native Britons, and in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the Pax Britannica was frequentl...
(Arnold 2062). Expressionism : A movement that affected both painting and literature that attempted to exceed impressionism in "...
chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...
formula which would ensure the future of the white minority into the next century (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition ...
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...
her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...