incorporated many of the same themes from the Victorian/Gothic literary period. In the Victorian England society‚ women were considered weak and inferior to men‚ which is why many believed they functioned best for society in the home taking care of the husbands and children. (Hughes‚ n.p.). Women were supposed to view marriage as a way to raise a family instead of using it to fill an emotional or sexual void. (Hughes‚ n.p.). The “ideal woman” in the Victorian era was one who was fully devoted to her
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Medical Issues in the Victorian Era “In London it’s thought 7‚000 people died of Cholera in the 1831-1832 outbreak‚ which represented a 50% death rate. With a chronic lack of hygiene‚ diseases such as cholera could be devastating” (Trueman). People in the Victorian Era had no idea what sanitation was. There were horrifying outbreaks of terribly contagious diseases‚ and no one knew how they were occurring. Sanitation was a big issue in the Victorian Era. “Cholera‚ a bacterial disease‚ has claimed
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Oscar Wilde’s satirical depiction of Victorian Society in The Important of Being Earnest comments on the absurdity of their inability to recognize the difference between the important and unimportant. Characters in the play often make trivial matters into serious matters and vice versa‚ although there are times where issues are treated appropriately. However‚ the whole idea of what is important is subjective‚ and in a Victorian Era context‚ matters such as social status and proper etiquette were
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During the Victorian Era women were limited to child bearing and housewife. They were identified in four classes; Nobility‚ Middle class‚ Upper working class‚ and lower working class. They were expected to remain in their class and any change from one class to another was a serious offense. Within all of the classes women were expected to live a highly restricted life with their life centered on their husband and children. Women in the Nobility class lived a life of luxury. They spent their time
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always strong even though they may be distant from each other. Grace Nichols’ poem ‘Island Man’ conveys this relationship. The poem emphasises on the immigrant experience‚ the contrast between the two environments‚ and the past and the present. This poem highlights the split in identity that immigrants feel. An individual may leave their homeland‚ but it will always remain within them. In the poem ‘Island Man’‚ the island man fells nostalgic as he “wakes up to the sound of the sea in his head” daily
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Urban Culture Urban industrial development combined with mass transportation and urban growth destroyed the old pedestrian city of the past. The physical expansion of the city attracted industry‚ capital‚ and people. By the early 1900s‚ the modern American city‚ with its urban mass and distinct constituencies‚ was clearly taking shape. Cities grow in three ways: through physical expansion‚ by natural increase‚ and through migration and immigration. In the late nineteenth century‚ immigration
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In order to ask the reader to question Victorian social norms Abbott employs the use of estrangement. He achieves this through his depiction of Flatland: it may be geologically and aesthetically different as a 2-Dimensional landscape‚ but the social norms and customs of the residents are parallel to that of the Victorians. Khanna describes: ‘The other world proposed in such fiction not only stretches the imagination of what is possible in social organisation‚ but also makes us see our present society
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tremendously over the years. He has gone through a St. Nicholas stage‚ a Victorian Father Christmas stage‚ and he is currently in the modern stage. Santa clause originated from St. Nicholas. He looked similar to a priest. He was pictured dressed in a long red cloak that swept the ground with his white robe underneath and a tall white‚ red‚ and gold hat. He sported a long‚ luscious white beard and carried a gold staff. Next there is the Victorian Father Christmas. People interpreted his clothing slightly different
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The Victorian Era: A Prison for a Woman’s Individuality As Victorian writer‚ George Meredith once dictated: “Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing‚ as we say‚ to die for the other‚ yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.” In the novella The Awakening by Kate Chopin‚ the main character Edna Montpellier is a Victorian woman awakened from a stagnant life of a typical turn-of-the-century marriage. She looks for a life outside of her family that she desires to branch
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