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Four Year Twenty One
686 wordsSarah Jeannette Duncan's A Mother in India Patriarchal Victorian Men Create Monstrous Victorian Women A Mother in India, as a story depends on the facade of appearance and the reality of emotional abandonment within a male dominated & Victorian society. Duncan's point is that Victorian men create monstrous Victorian women. Relationships of any emotional worth are rendered impossible between Helena and her daughter Cecily because of a life long separation imposed by the father. It is impossible f...
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Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
1,107 wordsCharles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, is recognized by all as the silly fairy-tale author of stories such as Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. However, little is known about what drove him to write such obviously fantastic stories. Themes such as nonsense and fantasy, education, drug abuse, racism and prejudice, money, malnutrition and public health are touched upon throughout his works. While only speculation can be offered, it is clear that these ...
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Middle Class Upper Class
1,197 wordsColonialism changed the roles of Europeans of the early 1900 's or late 1800 's? One of the most famous slogans of the age of global colonization was: "The sun never sets on the British Empire. " As recently as 1940, world maps showed large areas colored pink, representing regions dominated by the British. Much of Africa was pink, along with India, Malaya, Hong Kong, and other scattered territories in Asia and the Americas. The existence of an empire on which the sun never set helped instill in ...
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Thomas Malthus Nineteenth Century
1,825 words... the discussion was Ricardo's 'Principles' in 1817, which set down the doctrine of the Classical School on value. Malthus was never comfortable as a member of the Classical school. Nowhere is this more evident than in Malthus's own essay, 'Principles of Economics' (1820). He differs from the Classical Ricardians at several points. For example, Malthus introduced the idea of a demand schedule in the modern sense, as the conceptual relationship between prices and the quantity demanded by buyers...
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Late Nineteenth Century Importance Of Being Earnest
902 wordsThe society presented by Wilde in the first act of The Importance of Being Earnest is the late Victorian society within which he lived. This society was highly influenced by the nouveau riche and aristocracy. Wilde's play focuses upon this sphere of social society with its drawing room setting. The late nineteenth century society was very much based upon rigid class distinctions and this comedy of the same period holds this same ideal. Evidence of the society this literature was drawn from can b...
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How Matthew Arnold Differs From Other Victorian Poets
793 wordsMatthew Arnold, poet and critic was undoubtedly an eminent Victorian. His poetry represented its age in far profounder way. The Victorian age is one of the most remarkable periods in the history of inland. It was an era of material prosperity, political consciousness, dramatic reforms, industrial and mechanical progress, scientific advancement social unrest, educational expansion and religions uncertainly. Against such a background, the poets, the novelists and the essayist of this age wielded t...
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Literature Of Lord Alfred Tennyson
1,568 wordsIn any genre of expression, he who possesses the ability of variance, will poses the hearts of many. Meaning in any art form, from the majestic impressionist paintings of Degas, to the masterful written works of Lord Alfred Tennyson, one must possess the ability to vary or change their style in order to relate to the masses. This technique in modern times is called crossing over, or attracting new audiences. The brightest stars, and most well know artist and poets are those who have mastered thi...
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Dover Bitch Mockery Of Victorian Values In Beach
350 wordsHecht's parody 'Dover Bitch' is a mockery of Victorian values shown in 'Dover Beach', as well as those of his own period. Hecht candidly exaggerates the speech, ideas and symbols in 'Dover Beach. '. The first evidence of Hecht's mockery is of speech at the beginning when he writes ' There stood Matthew Arnold and his girl... All over, etc. , etc. '. He take the soft calming words of Arnold and gives them a harsh New Jersey accent. His representation of an educated woman sets the reader up to thi...
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19 Th Century England Stephen Blackpool
1,144 wordsHard Times The spirit of Victorian England is now being discussed in terms of cultural phenomenon. Rapid development of technology in 19 th century resulted in mechanization of peoples outlook on life, which became especially apparent in developed capitalist countries. People began to rationalize every aspect of their existence, in order to gain social prominence. However, it did not take long for them to realize that their existential efficiency could never help in them to attain happiness. Cha...
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Rocking Chair Victorian England
1,046 wordsMary Barton Elizabeth Gaskell's novel Mary Barton can hardly be referred to as the exceptional literary masterpiece. Nevertheless, from a certain point of view, the value of her novel is higher than the value of other books, written about the same time by different authors. This is because, in her novel, Gaskell creates a very realistic image of Victorian society, often at the expense of over complicating the plot. In order for Mary Barton to be read as rather documentary than a fiction, author ...
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19 Th Century Robert Browning
705 wordsBy the Fire-Side On the surface, it appears that Robert Brownings poem By the Fire-Side does not have a clear historical references, which would allow us to think of it as poetical piece that contains the essence of Victorian spirit, in traditional sense of this word. In it, author describes his trip to Italy with his wife in terms of metaphysical quest, while allowing readers to interpret the poems main message in variety of different ways. However, there are many indications, which can be foun...
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The Taming Of Shrew William Shakespeare
1,713 wordsThe Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare In my essay I will discuss the play The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare in the frames of the ideas of feminism and the chances for womens self-affirmation in the age of William Shakespeare and our contemporary world. For this purpose I will disclose the symbolic meaning of the relationships between Katherina and Pertuchio, their progress and the self-expression of the main characters throughout the play. I will argue the vice and virtue of...
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Chopin The Awakening Wife And Mother
3,424 wordsIn Kate Chopin 2 Sharp 1 In all of Kate Chopin s writings she placed a great deal of importance on the rights and freedom of the women of her time. Chopin believed that women should have emotional, sexual, and intellectual freedom and this belief was presented within the lines of all of her short stories, novels, and poems. (Gilbert, Gear 1012) The Awakening by Kate Chopin was considered very shocking when it was first published because of it s sexual awakening of the main character, Edna Pontel...
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Role Of Women Henrik Ibsen
373 wordsIn the Victorian Era (1832 - 1901), women faced many challenges. Women were not treated as they are today. They were treated unfairly and not heard. There was a need for women to express their own needs as human beings, and finally overcome their hardship. But the question remained, what was their position in life? Two pieces of literature that deal with this topic are A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen and A Woman s Thoughts about Women by Dinah Maria Mulock. The book A Doll s House (1879) by Henrik...
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Women Were Treated Victorian Era
733 wordsThrough Doll House Feminist Criticism Through the eyes of society in the late 1800 s, women were seen only as incompetent pretty little nothings. Keeping an eyeful watch on the house, starting their pre-destined act of motherhood, and becoming followers on the narrow path behind their husbands were the duties of a woman. In Ibsen's A Dolls House, he criticizes the sexist ways women were exploited in 1879, during a time known as The Victorian Era. Nora's character, in A Dolls House, represents th...
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Sit Quietly Dover Beach
345 wordsHecht's parody Dover Bitch is a mockery of Victorian values shown in Dover Beach, as well as those of his own period. Hecht candidly exaggerates the speech, ideas and symbols in Dover Beach... The first evidence of Hecht's mockery is of speech at the beginning when he writes There stood Matthew Arnold and his girl All over, etc. , etc... He take the soft calming words of Arnold and gives them a harsh New Jersey accent. His representation of an educated woman sets the reader up to think that the ...
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Quot Quot Communist Manifesto
2,314 wordsEurope began the nineteenth century dominated by the romanticists. The realists changed the face of Europe once more by the middle of the nineteenth century. The importance of science and the industrialization of Europe characterized their movement. Where the romanticists believed in feelings, intuition, and imagination, the realists believed in a movement known as positivism, which applied the scientific method to the study of society. The authors of this period also changed their style of writ...
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Act Was Passed Cities And Towns
2,367 wordsDuring the Victorian Era there were massive waves of contagious disease. The first was from 1831 to 1833, which included two influenza epidemics and the initial appearance of cholera. The second was from 1836 to 1842, which encompassed major epidemics of influenza, typhus, typhoid and cholera. The first outbreak of Asiatic cholera in Britain was at Sunderland on the Durham coast during the autumn of 1831. From there the disease made its way northward into Scotland and southward toward London. Fr...
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Jack The Ripper East End
6,469 wordsJack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London Serial Killer Murder DURING THE autumn of 1888, a killer terrorized London. He chose as his victims mostly older, decrepit, drink-ridden prostitutes from the East End district of Whitechapel. The name Jack the Ripper appeared on a number of letters mailed to the police and to various news agencies. The publication of several of these letters, in the hope that someone would recognize the handwriting, vastly increased the killers fame. It has never b...
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Amp B Worlds First
1,638 wordsSteamed up Locomotives of the LNWR Southern Division Harry Jack 300 pp, RCTS The Railway King: A Biography of George Hudson, Railway Pioneer and Fraudster Robert Beaumont 274 pp, Review Brunel: The Life and Times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Angus Buchanan 294 pp, Hambledon & London Harry Jacks brother, Ian, the editor of Granta, is a railway enthusiast who has wondered if his passion for railways and steam locomotives is a healthy one. Ian Jack hides copies of railway magazines inside importa...
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