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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Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography‚ Volume 4: Victorian Writers‚ 1832−1890 Bentley‚ Eric. The Playwright As Thinker. Reynal & Hitchcock‚ 1946. Reinert‚ Otto. "Satiric Strategy in ’The Importance of Being Earnest. ’" In College English‚ Vol. 18‚ no. 1‚ October‚ 1956‚ pp Roditi‚ Edourd. Oscar Wilde. New Directions‚ 1986. Briggs‚ Asa. The Age of Improvement. Longman‚ 1988. A readable‚ comprehensive history of the mid−Victorian years in England Ellmann‚ Richard. Oscar Wilde. 1988. This
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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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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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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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Filled with many wonderful and talented authors‚ the Victorian Era novels give the reader an adventure into a time of different fashions‚ technology and mores. The Victorian Era spans from 1837 to 1901‚ that is One Hundred and Seventy-Nine years ago to One Hundred and Fifteen years ago. Found in any bookstore‚ taught in academia and made into films and television series‚ these authors exhibits the interest and influence they have on today’s society. Even though many of these authors are outstanding
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concentrates on this struggle in her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper‚" which chronicles an unnamed woman’s gradual descent into insanity. In doing so‚ she shines a light on nineteenth-century gender roles as well as the conflict between women and the Victorian Era’s patriarchal institutions. By using Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar as a lens through which to examine feminist
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Oscar Wilde uses food as an essential motif /symbol of an act of working out problems. Set in the Victorian era the tea time custom is vastly a part of the play. From the very beginning where Algernon is questioned about the “cucumber sandwiches” he claims “I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o’ clock.”This custom that became increasingly popular in Victorian England was the tradition of taking afternoon tea. This practice was displayed predominately by
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