Although many of the early critics found Oscar Wilde’s final play strictly humorous‚ it clearly conveys social hypocrisies of the upper-classes of the period (late-Victorian). Wilde was being satirical and paradoxical in his play to show the hypocrisy and entertain the viewers in a play that is still being repeated till today. It is a witty and amusing comedy which conveys real life everyday themes such as real love as opposed to selfish love‚ religion‚ marriage‚ being truthful and country life as
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William Shakespeare Discussing William Shakespeare‚ Ben Jonson once said‚ “He was not of an age‚ but for all time!” D.H Lawrence once said‚ “When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder‚ that such trivial people should muse and thunder‚ in such lovely language.” Dame Ellen Terry also once said‚ “Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all‚ and women especially‚ owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless‚ high-spirited‚ resolute and intelligent heroines?” There
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Gender Roles in Trifles The roles and rights of women in the Victorian era up to nineteen hundreds differ drastically from where women stand today. In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell‚ females are portrayed to be an insignificant part of society compared to the importance of males. Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles is a murder mystery type of play that discovers and analyzes gender roles and corrupt relationships due to the Victorian time period. The typical stereo type for women in the nineteen
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Rossetti ‘Maude Clare’ Maude Clare is a poem with simple language‚ yet many complex interpretations; and mysterious narrators. The language suggests the time period in which the poem was written‚ and the traditional ballad structure connotes the Victorian era of poetry‚ as well as the tragic theme of love implying the pre Raphaelite age. The poem could be interpreted in the literal sense; an ex-lover showing up on her once- partners wedding day: “Out of the church she followed them” this is narrated
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Fueled by the frustration of the masculine control that dominated her era‚ Virginia Woolf displayed her deepest feelings of oppression in her essay “Professions for Women”. Written in 1931‚ “Professions for Women” shows the internal conflict many women battled fiercely with when living their everyday lives. Woolf tells a story of a figurative “Angel in the House”‚ which is a stereotypical woman of the Victorian era and her efforts to break free from this stereotypical template. Woolf felt that for
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is meant to portray the negative consequences being controlled and suppressed by social norms can have on women. The class and age differences between the two characters serve as both an exaggeration and commentary on the extreme binary logic of Victorian gender relations. In Esther Godfrey’s article “Jane Eyre: Governess to Girl Bride‚” she attempts to examine the fact that in Jane Eyre gender identities and performances are increasingly tied to material wealth and social status. She then draws
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during the decline of the Victorian era and portrays the lifestyle of the era’s upper class in the author’s amusing point of view. While this was the era of supreme manners‚ well-educated men‚ and the utmost marriageable women‚ Oscar Wilde depicts his characters in a more truthful manner by revealing their contradicting statements and dishonest ways. Gwendolen‚ Cecily‚ and Lady Bracknell are the women in the play who are supposed to be the perfect representation of Victorian women‚ but their flaws are
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social era and attitudes of her time. We see Chopin’s breeding ground for women in later times. These two short stories dealing with two women who decide to deal with their weakness or perhaps strengths by having more of a male attitude in both sexual and emotional degree. Chopin lived in the Southern United States in which she bases most of her stories‚ ‘The Storm’‚ was Biloxi on the Gulf Coast of the state of Mississippi. The period of her writing is generally regarded as the ‘Victorian’ era. In
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alienating them from the characters they play." (Worthen‚ 807) The play takes part in two acts; in the first we see Clive‚ his family‚ friends‚ and servants in a Victorian British Colony in Africa; the second act takes place in 1979 London‚ but only twenty-five years have passed for the family. The choice to contrast the Victorian and Modern era becomes vitally important when analyzing this text from a materialist feminist view; materialist feminism relies heavily on history. Cloud Nine is a materialist
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Brontë’s Social Revolution In the novel Jane Eyre‚ author Charlotte Brontë emphasizes the religious aspect of life during the Victorian Era. Near the beginning of the preface Brontë states‚ “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness in not religion”(Brontë‚ 1). With this statement‚ Brontë criticizes pseudo-religious manner in which many members of Victorian society live. She chastises her contemporaries for leading a life where empty words of justice and virtue are preceded by inconsistent
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