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    Victorian Era In the Victorian Era‚ it was all about man and man only. The man was the bread winner‚ the man was the one who made decisions‚ and the man was in charge of basically everything. The female‚ however‚ was the considered angel of the household. She followed the rules and never left the house. She had to stay in the house and provide a comforting home by cooking food‚ cleaning‚ and taking care of the kids. The Victorian Era was described as women being in the outer circle and men being

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    Tennyson as a Victorian The Victorian age was an age where many changes occurred socially‚ economically‚ and industrially. People began to explore into areas such as the earth‚ the human body‚ and how to benefit the daily lives of individuals. English literature was also something that was beginning to be developed. People’s thoughts and ideas also changed with the development of the country. The peoples’ ideas became more free and they accepted change more easily‚ yet not everybody wanted to

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    In the Victorian Era‚ women had an important role. There were different classes of women‚ but they overall had the same role. Women were supposed to center their lives around their children and husbands. Being a woman in Victorian England was a life full of physical and mental abuse along with a denial of progress outside of the home. Women in the Victorian Era were mainly abused. Physical abuse or “wife beating” was socially acceptable during the Victorian times. “Wife beating” was present in all

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    The Victorian age (1832-19019: GENERAL FEATURES The 1832 Great Reform Bill is generally taken as the watershed between the Romantic Age and the so-called Victorian Age. The age that was taking shape in those years and that ended at the beginning of our century was much less homogeneous than it may appear at a superficial analysis. It was an age of extremes and contradictions under a surface of balance and respectability. The key-ideas that intersected in the seventy years of Queen Victoria’s

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    Society in the Victorian Age did not see that it was necessary for women to have an education. The only source of education for women was often found in wealthier people who could hire a governess to teach‚ but still the education that was being taught was usually about manners and responsibility. Women were still thought of as the underdog to men. In 1850 education began to pick up for women. As it is stated by Wukovits (2013)‚ "North London Collegiate School was the first to operate for girls

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    TARNÓW STATE COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Mateusz BILIŃSKI PORTRAIT OF FEMME FATALE IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE Project presented in part fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Licentiate in Tarnów State College‚ written under the supervision of dr Dominika Ruszkiewicz TARNÓW 2013 CONTENTS

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    The period known as the Victorian era in England‚ from 1837 to 1901‚ had gender roles that drastically defined the difference between a man and a woman. These differences were based on the theory that “men possessed the capacity for reason‚ action‚ aggression‚ independence‚ and self-interest. Women inhabited a separate‚ private sphere‚ one suitable for the so called inherent qualities of femininity: emotion‚ passivity‚ submission‚ dependence‚ and selflessness‚ all derived‚ it was claimed insistently

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    “Did late Victorians think of homosexuality primarily as a crime‚ a disease‚ or something else?” The late Victorian era of the nineteenth century‚ has long been synonymously recognised as highly-repressed and morally obsessive. Yet distinct from all preceding eras‚ there lay a fixation in society in the belief that an individual’s sex and sexuality form the most basic core of their identity and indeed of one’s social or political standing‚ and freedom. Though we can acknowledge that the urbanisation

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    Jane Eyre- Victorian Mores

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    Victorian Mores In Jane Eyre During the Victorian era‚ it was only acceptable to abide by a set of unspoken rules acknowledged by society called mores. Some of the mores that were present in the eighteenth-century time period included the importance of the family‚ high standards of morality and decency‚ and that people must be punished or rewarded for their actions and deeds. Although these mores are not present in modern culture‚ invisible laws still exist in society today and need to be brought

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    Is The Octoroon a typical Victorian melodrama? The Oxford English Dictionary defines the genre of melodrama as‚ “a stage play‚ usually romantic and sensational in plot”‚ this description certainly applies to The Octoroon. It was an extremely popular form of stage drama and what I will discover is whether its themes‚ content and structure are typical of the Victorian period melodrama. From the first time it was presented at the start of the nineteenth century‚ melodrama attracted big audiences

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