Coketown The relatively short time period of the Victorian age‚ which stretched from 1837 to 1901‚ produced one of the most famous British writers‚ Charles Dickens (1812-1870)‚ who was very skilled at portraying the very dark aspects of the Victorian Era through his works. The Victorian Era is known for its dramatic increase in population and industrial growth that brought along fast growing cities and a bigger use of machines‚ that were coal fueled‚ having an enormous impact on the appearance
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the rest of his work. This particular play would question a lot of morals and would also make a mockery out of the high prestigious people of the Victorian society‚ that play was entitled “The Importance of Being Earnest”. In Wilde’s play “The Importance of Being Earnest”‚ Wilde uses comical satire to describe the high society class of the Victorian era‚ were image and social status is important as breathing. “The Importance of Being Earnest” play brought about “light comedy” (Bastiat 53) and the
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bourgeoisie (Bloom 7). The way that Victor went about creating the monster is also similar to the creation of the working class. Specifically in the way the working class was permanently established and expanded during the industrial revolution of the Victorian Era (McMurtry 19). The driving force behind the industrial revolution‚ and moreover the development of the working class‚ was the innovation of new technologies and machinery. These innovations were mostly pioneered by the bourgeoisie‚ as the only
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were all closed to women. In the Victorian Era women were seen‚ by the middle classes at least‚ as belonging to the domestic sphere‚ and this stereotype required them to provide their husbands with a clean home‚ food on the table and to raise their children. Women’s rights were extremely limited in this era‚ losing ownership of their wages‚ all of their physical property‚ excluding land property‚ and all other cash they generated once married. When a Victorian man and woman married‚ the rights of
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be clear? The importance of being Earnest is a satirical comedy‚ which ridicules the social values of the Victorian Era. Despite the farce used within the play‚ the comedy is shown to have deeper meaning. As Freud said‚ “Every joke contains an element of seriousness; a joke is never just a joke.” Related to this quote‚ in ‘Earnest’‚ l think there is a moral message‚ mocking the Victorian society‚ aimed towards the Upper class and their disregard for social conventions. In act 1‚ Wilde uses burlesque
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Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” and Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” Tess of the D’Urbervilles was published in 1891 by Thomas Hardy. Hardy was a novelist and a poet who wrote during both the Victorian and the Modern era. Tess of the D’Urbervilles shows many traditional Victorian views and religion plays a big role in those traditional views. The main character of the novel is Tess‚ a young and according to Hardy himself‚ a “pure woman”‚ from a working-class background. She is not an
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Name Teacher AP Language 24/4/2013 Tennyson’s Lady Lord Tennyson was a famous and popular poet in England. For more than forty years- most of the Victorian era- Tennyson was the Poet Laureate‚ yet "The Lady of Shalott" was successfully published in 1839 and 1842‚ as an early work. This poem was written before Tennyson became acclaimed and popular. Without the aid of already established fame‚ “The Lady of Shalott” and Tennyson rose to become prominent characters in the English literary
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Different Eras same Actions Imagine if women do not have a voice or opinion that is valid‚ and their feelings do not matter to others. Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the story “The Yellow Wall Paper” shows an idea of how “the perfect wife” was in the Victorian Era. Gilman supports her claim by describing the story of Jane who was trapped in her own house‚ keeping her true feelings inside‚ someone who was not living for herself‚ a soul who wanted to be free. The narrator describes Jane as a woman who
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social values has upon dreams and desires. Such ways in which this is evident is the contrast of the 1940s Victorian Era‚ which connected deep‚ spiritual and religious values with love; and the lawless‚ materialistic and shallow understanding of love in the 20s. Browning’s Victorian society was seen as a peaceful time of prosperity and colonisation. It was also noted as the height of the Romantic era. This spurred a growing relevance in the arts‚ and therefore poetry. Love sonnets in particular were extremely
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English 412 The main idea which I wish to explore with my research paper is the female role/motherhood in the Victorian period. The primary text from our class that I will most likely be using is Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The idea of the paper is to expand on the idea of how motherly figures within the work present different iterations of the role of a female during the period. The secondary sources I will be using for the assignment will‚ first off‚ outline the accepted
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