satirical play‚ as the characters relishing in the upper class of the Victorian period unknowingly mock their own habits acquired to them due to the luxury they are spoilt with. Despite this‚ it is evident that the use of satire is feckless and lacks a moral point of view‚ in contrast with the moral point expressed through satire in other Victorian plays such as Mrs Warren’s Profession‚ which ‘exposes the corruption and hypocrisy of the ‘‘genteel’’ class’. Ergo‚ we acknowledge that the play is an ‘invention
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within late Victorian England‚ the play follows John (Jack) Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff‚ two gentlemen who create false identities in order to escape the burdens of upper-class life. Often subtitled as A Trivial Comedy for Serious People‚ the play is characterised by a constant sense of frivolity‚ whereby the seriousness of upper-class life is absent‚ allowing Wilde to question and satirise its very nature. As a homosexual man living during this time‚ Wilde’s interrogation of late Victorian roles and
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Victorian society was split between the very rich‚ and the very poor. Jekyll was part of the former‚ born ’to a large fortune‚’ ’inclined by nature to industry’ and he was ’fond of the respect of the wise and good.’ However‚ there was great hypocrisy caused by this social divide‚ which resulted in Jekyll having a hedonistic side to his personality. While the rich were respectable and ’austere‚’ the poor visited prostitutes and partook in illegal gambling. However‚ what Stevenson does in his story
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novel. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the most dominant example of duality in man. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Hyde was published during the time of Victorian reign where religion‚ dignity‚ and honor of ones self were three very significant foundation of a human kind. Jekyll was forced to suppress his feelings due to the rigid norms of the Victorian society. As interpreted in the book‚ Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jekyll‚ only molded into an epitome of Dr. Jekyll’s vicious personality. The two characters that
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typical Victorian gender role. Gender roles are cultural and personal‚ they determine how males and females should think‚ speak‚ dress‚ and interact within the context of society. Masculinity and Femininity refer to the dominant sex role pattern in the vast majority of both traditional and modern societies: that of male assertiveness and female nurturance.It is very clear and evident that Wilde distinctively does subvert from these gender roles and in the process satirizes these Victorian values.
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comedic features‚ in addition to witty paradoxes stated by characters allows forms of deception to appear as amusing and superficial while still holding much darker alternate meanings and subtexts which allows him to draw upon and mock the flaws of Victorian society. The idea of deception through leading a double life is central to the play as it is personified by the idea of ‘Bunburying.’ By Wilde’s use of exposition‚ mainly during Algernon’s questioning of Jack‚ the audience learn that ‘Bunburying’
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“Breaker Morant”: Victorian Attitudes and British Imperialism The film “Breaker Morant” is a cinematic attack of the trial of three Australian colonials serving in the British Army during the second Boer War‚ which opposed the British against two Boer republics‚ the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The war was waged from 1899 to 1902 and resulted in a British victory and the annexation of the two republics into what would eventually become the British territory of South Africa. While the
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of society around Victorian values of that time. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is an excellent example of what a satire is‚ by the use of satirical devices such as irony‚ sarcasm and farce to show the society in a ridiculous way. In the play‚ Wilde often satirizes the Victorian society and all the rules that weren’t followed‚ criticizing the thinking of the upper classes of seeing themselves as the father in all the United Kingdom family society. Wilde decided to judge Victorian society because
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heart of Victorian notions of respectability and duty. Gwendolen wants to marry a man called Ernest‚ and she doesn’t care whether the man actually possesses the qualities that comprise earnestness. She is‚ after all‚ quick to forgive Jack’s deception. In embodying a man who is initially neither “earnest” nor “Ernest‚” and who‚ through forces beyond his control‚ subsequently becomes both “earnest” and “Ernest‚” Jack is a walking‚ breathing paradox and a complex symbol of Victorian hypocrisy. -Earnest
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before December 1st : 10% * Presentations: 5% Course Content: UNIT – I: Background to Victorianism (8 Hours) * History of the age * The characteristics of the period * Introduction to Victorian Literature * Contradictions in the period Texts: G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) – The Victorian Age in Literature [Essay] Will Durant (1885-1981) – “Comte and Darwin” (The
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