Hosting in the Victorian Era Hosting was very popular in the Victorian Era . It was a huge privilege to host a tea party. It showed how organized you were and if you were a good wife and mother. You have to have everything in line and have everyone enjoying themselves. Hosting a tea party will be a good way to bring up history. You will become engrossed in the comfort with face-to-face conversation. With today’s media‚ tea parties seem unnecessary and silly. When people imagine tea-parties‚ they
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Importance of Being Earnest as a Satire on the hypocrisy of ‘polite’ British society? It can be argued that Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (2000) explores in depth the idea of satire on the hypocrisy of ‘polite’ British society. Wilde uses dramatic language to amplify the satirical nature of the play; by using irony and satire he is able to mock the polite Victorian etiquette. The play is set in middle class Victorian London‚ and was written in 1895. Wilde was renowned
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trouble but then there are some that don’t get solved. The Victorian era‚ murder was very common and most times people wouldn’t ever get caught. In Macbeth‚ Hamlet and Richard III‚ murder is a big part. If something doesn’t go someone’s way‚ or if they don’t get what they want‚ or can’t wait for power‚ they kill them. The role of murder in the Victorian Era and in Shakespeare’s plays is similar to murder in today’s society. In the Victorian Era Shakespeare’s plays were very popular. Many people
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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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During the Victorian Era‚ society’s view on women‚ courtship‚ and marriage differed immensely from today’s views. In the nineteenth century‚ women were held to a higher and stricter standard. Women couldn’t talk to men without being introduced‚ they couldn’t leave the home without a chaperone‚ they had to look their absolute best‚ and many more restrictions. Back then‚ a woman’s main goal or career was to get married and their role in society was within the home. In order to reach that goal‚ girls
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as paradoxes and humorous irony to breakdown the faults of the Victorian Era during the time period of the reform. The characters in this play each held a certain quality that added to the satire Wilde wanted describe. He acknowledges many important aspects of the Victorian society such as their class system‚ etiquette‚ marriage‚ and being earnest are customs of the Victorian people. There was a great distinction among the Victorian class system. The upper class was strongly favored. The lower class
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Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde used comedy as the primary means of communicating the key themes of his play. In particular he used satire to ridicule the hypocrisy of the strict code of behaviors that characterized the late Victorian era. His use of satire is intended to spotlight the shortcomings of the Victorian era and highlight social issues at play that he personally condemned. Of particular importance in the play are the strict rules of behaviour concerning marriage and this is
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Pictorialism in the Victorian Era; The Works of Julia Margaret Cameron and Madame Yevonde A Personal Research Project Looking at Two Female Photographers of the Victorian Era and Their Styles of Photography Contents Introduction………………………………....................................................................3 Chapter 1 - Pictorialism……………………………….................................................4 Chapter 2 - Julia Margaret Cameron………………………………...................
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To be a Victorian provokes the question whether if it is better to be or not to be. The Importance of Being Earnest is a play that uses satirical comedy to analyze aspects of society. Jack‚ Algernon‚ Cecily‚ Gwendolen‚ and Lady Bracknell are all over dramatized representations of the shallow‚ pretentious British upper class. Characters trade smart remarks‚ but they seem oblivious to the humor and absurdity of their statements. In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ the satire of an upper-class Victorian
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others to form a postmodern double-coded discourse which examines values inherent in the Victorian era from a twentieth century context. The novel’s use of intertextuality‚ metafiction and its irreverent attitude can be seen as a postmodern parody of Victorian fiction and the historical novel. For the purpose of examining the values and ideologies of the Victorian era in comparison to the postmodern paradigm‚ Victorian conventions are shown juxtaposed with postmodern techniques such as the authorial intrusion
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