Oscar Wilde lived and wr¬¬ote during the late Victorian period‚ where the idea of living life earnestly was the most ideal. The Victorian era is a time viewed by strict moral values. The play’s humor takes part with characters maintaining a false identity to break away from the social obligations. Being truthful‚ sincere‚ or serious could be the idea of earnestness. It will also reveal the true definition of honesty versus the Victorian definition of honesty. The comedy of this play shows several
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Shen Fuying English Novel 5 February 2013 An Analysis of the Causes of Tess’s Tragedies in Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy is one of the most prominent novelists during the Victorian era in Britain. Trapped in the middle ground between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries‚ Hardy not only inherited Victorian tradition but also initiated the modern innovation in literature. Tess of the D’urbervilles is a masterpiece representing his reputation of a full-blown writer and it is also unanimously
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06 March 2013 Victorian Era In a Victorian marriage‚ a husband dominates his wife. In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” Louise Mallard contemplates the significance of the news that her husband had been killed in a train wreck. Chopin creates Louise in order to protest how wife was oppressed in marriage and her works suggest that Louise was oppressed psychologically‚ politically and economically. In the patriarchal world of the nineteenth century women were oppressed psychologically
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of the Victorian era in topics of etiquette‚ education and prejudice. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is also a tribute to a child’s ability to adapt and accept a hostile environment. Carroll has cryptically satirized adults’ and their treatment of children‚ by portraying them as authorarian and strange creatures. This work of fiction was written in the Victorian era‚ a time now remembered for its stifling propriety and constructive morals. Carroll has mirrored these aspects of Victorian society
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‘Cousin Kate’ by Christina Rossetti This Victorian poem is about the narrator (a fallen woman)‚ the Lord and Kate. It is a ballad which tells the story from the narrator’s perspective about being shunned by society after her ‘experiences’ with the lord. The poem’s female speaker recalls her contentment in her humble surroundings until the local ‘Lord of the Manor’ took her to be his lover. He discarded her when she became pregnant and his affections turned to another village girl‚ Kate‚ whom he
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Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest provides a satirical view of the Victorian era‚ primarily focusing on Victorian standards of marriage and social expectations. Wilde builds his critique of Victorian morality through his humor and wit between the character’s banter‚ the hypocritical Victorian view of honesty. Wilde view of Victorian society is illustrated through his wit and humor embedded in the characters’ dialogues. For example‚ Jack and Algernon live double lives as lowlifes
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Nora‚ a complex character from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House‚ changes throughout the play as the audience watches her develop into a very different woman‚ untypical of the Victorian era. As a house wife‚ she is expected to obey and respect her husband‚ however she misbehaves during the first act‚ behaves desperately in the second‚ and abandons her husband for her own sake in the final act. At the beginning of the play‚ Nora seems completely at ease and demonstrates many childlike aspects. Her relationship
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what society has created as well. To be fitting to the structure of this article‚ it is only right that fashion‚ music‚ and intelligence (show throughout literature) are shown as the world’s most spontaneous topics the world focuses on. Literature “Nineteenth century England is what most historians call the Victorian age‚ which is how British literature got started. It was during the Victorian age that people began to learn how to read and write. "In 1837 about half of the adult male population
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There is nothing earnest about this play‚ at least on the surface. It’s a giant critism of the Victorian era‚ when middle class behavior governed everything from communication to sexuality. The most important rules applied to marriage and were always a popular topic in Victorian plays‚ and one that interested Wilde‚ who was married to a woman but sexually involved with men. During the Victorian period‚ marriage was about protecting your resources‚ and keeping socially unacceptable impulses
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Poetry Question: “His work reveals that he is unmistakably a product of his age and time.” Discuss this view of Hardy’s poetry with reference to any 3 poems. A writer’s work is a ‘nurtured reflective’ of his society. This was no different for Victorian Britain. Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria underwent evolutionary changes that did not only change the lifestyle of a people but the culture of the people. With Britain gaining mass economical wealth through the colonization of other territories
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