culture. William Morris‚ on the other hand‚ was more ahead of his time. His works often included a resistance to the conventional assumptions of the Victorian Age and he was associated with an artistic reform movement called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. This group of artists‚ poets‚ and writers rejected the current artistic movements during the 19th century and tried to focus on the classical eras. The character of Queen Guinevere evolves from an immoral and adulterous woman in Idylls of the
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John Fowles’ novel “The French Lieutenant’s woman” is seen as a postmodern text‚ by the author himself. He is considered to be the first postmodernist in the English literature‚ even though the postmodernist features were less explicit in British literature than in American. The novel resembles a Victorian text‚ but actually it is a critical rewrite of the happy-end Victorian novels. The issue of human freedom has always been an interesting subject to James Fowles. Some say that “The French Lieutenant’s
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The Daughters of King Lear In 1898 Edwin Austin Abbey painted a beautiful depiction of a scene in Shakespeare’s King Lear. The scene is of Cordelia leaving her sisters and all of court after her father‚ King Lear‚ divides his kingdom to her two elder sisters‚ Regan and Goneril‚ leaving her with nothing. This painting has been named many different names such as Cordelia’s Farewell‚ Scene from King Lear‚ and the most fitting‚ The Daughters of King Lear‚ so called in the Yale University organized
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The Woodspurge The Poem The wind flapped loose‚ the wind was still‚ Shaken out dead from tree and hill: I had walked on at the wind’s will‚ I sat now‚ for the wind was still. Between my knees my forehead was‚ My lips‚ drawn in said not Alas! My hair was over in the grass‚ My naked ears heard the day pass. My eyes‚ wide open‚ had the run Of some ten weeds to fix upon; Among those few‚ out of the sun‚ The woodspurge flowered‚ three cups in one. From perfect
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Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti in Historical Context Victorian Era: Victorian Britain‚ 1837 - 1901 Christina Rossetti * Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic‚ devotional‚ and children’s poems * Family: Born in London to Gabriele Rossetti‚ a poet and a political exile from Vasto‚ Abruzzo‚ and Frances Polidori‚ the sister of Lord Byron’s friend and physician‚ John William Polidori. She had two brothers and
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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril."--by Oscar Wilde‚ Preface‚ "The Picture of Dorian Gray" The Victorian Period revolves around the political career of Queen Victoria. She was crowned in 1837 and died in 1901 (which put a definite end to her political career). A great deal of change took place during this period--brought about because of the Industrial Revolution; so it’s not surprising
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Elizabeth-Ruth Nantaba Was an Aryan Invasion Responsible for the Demise of the Indus Valley Civilization? YES Historian Stanley Wolpert (from A New History of India‚ 6th ed) states that the Aryan invasion of the Indus Valley did occur and that it played a role in the demise of the Indus Valley civilization. All excavations do prove that the decline of the Indus valley civilization occurred suddenly between 1800 BC and 1700 BC. It has been suggested that perhaps the people of the Indus Valley Civilization
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The Woodspurge The wind flapped loose‚ the wind was still‚ Shaken out dead from tree and hill; I had walked on at the wind’s will – I sat now‚ for the wind was still. Between my knees my forehead was – My lips‚ drawn in‚ said not Alas! My hair was over in the grass‚ My naked ears heard the day pass. My eyes‚ wide open‚ had the run Of some ten weeds to fix upon; Among those
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Century Poetry Dante Gabriel Rossetti‟s “My Sister‟s Sleep” Dante Gabriel Rossetti has been known as a poet and a painter of exceptional power. In both genres‚ he was of extraordinary mastery. He was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (with Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais) in 1848. The Victorian poets experienced transitional age. According to Gilmour‚ they were anxious inheritances of Romanticism. They felt that their ancestors lived in simpler world. Their problem was
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The movement into the Indian Subcontinent by the Indo-European Arayans was something that would greatly influence life for thousands of years to come. Not only did Islam and Hinduism introduce the caste system but it was probably had the biggest impact on the Indian Subcontinent. This system was so appealing that Hindus‚ Buddhist‚ and Jainist all took part in implicating it into their society. They had common beliefs buts also different forms of this system‚ that varied based on each religions belief
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