Explore how passion and the depth of love in relationships is presented in Wuthering Heights and in the poetry you have explored. Passion can be explored in a range of different contexts and formats; these include passionate love, passionate desire and sexual attraction, passionate anger directed at, or caused by a loved one, passionate suffering as a result of love going wrong and finally passionate jealousy. These different forms of passion significantly all appear in Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Aspects on the Victorian Society Bram Stoker 's Dracula, presents an interesting perspective on death and illness in the Victorian period. This can be viewed as a creativity on Stoker 's part, or as a form of religious or social commentary on his changing era. There are several flaws presented throughout the novel as the plot unfolds, which are: characters in the novel dismiss the old traditional belief of the supernatural, the constant power struggle between the sexes and the Victorian views on sexuality
Earnest’ explores various themes of love and marriage, especially in Act 1, where marriage in Victorian society is widely contradicted as a ‘very pleasant state,’ instead using various comedic devises, such as puns, double entendres and inversions to mock its virtue and morality. Wilde creates comedy through the presentation of Victorian views on the functionality of marriage, ridiculing it as a social tool. The fact that Victorian society does not value the ‘love’ and romance of marriage is witnessed
Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud (1865 – 1939) had been a tremendous cultural influence during the twentieth century, especially during its first half. Freud’s path-breaking work The Interpretation of Dreams came out in 1900, at the fag-end of the Victorian period. Subsequently, Freudian theories and ideas were employed to trace novel interpretations of pre-existing as well as newer literary texts. In the 1970s Freud’s thought was revised by Jacques Lacan from a linguistic standpoint. It was also during
Yorkshire moors, where the supernatural seems commonplace and the searing passion between Catherine and Heathcliff absolute. Yet Wuthering Heights reaches much further than its atmospheric setting, exploring the complexities of family relationships and Victorian society’s restrictions; similarly, in ‘A Room with a View’, E.M. Forster expands the relationship between Lucy and George to address wider social issues. Both novels explore and dramatise the conflict between human nature and society, between nature
royalty were common in this time period. • Provencal literature (11th to 13th centuries) – This movement sprang from a group of musicians from southern France who began to write powerful lyrics and put them to music. The three concepts that they focused upon were imagery, secret love and the spiritualization of passion. Gifted in weaving together masterful works of meter, form and rhythm, these poets achieved a unique and enviable style. • Elizabethan and Shakespearean Eras (1558-1625) Humanistic and
literature, in history and social sciences around the world. Life and mortality are two great questions of being that perennially haunt the human existence; and physicians play the most significant role in negotiating between the physical and the metaphysical worlds of being, suffering and trying to find cure and comfort as long as life goes on. The cultures of healing across time, space and nationality—explored however
as that of love. The mere word brings to mind images of romantic affection, lovers entangled in each other’s arms, stolen sidelong glances, whispered words of endearment, and an all-encompassing emotion that transcends the physical, an emotion that is experienced within all realms of being. However, in both life and poetry, the more joyous sentiments of love are often accompanied by images of loss and heartache, a contrast which heightens the imagery experience. The fact that love exists more
idea at its forefront, art suddenly inundated places where art was never previously found, such as social education and morality. In contrast, Oscar Wilde was a key advocate of an idea known aestheticism, a concept that relied on art simply being art. Oscar Wilde played a major role in Victorian England, having a major influence through his writing. At its peak "the movement had a disdain for any traditional, natural, political, or moral ideals; rather, the importance of nonconformist form and subject
reader as the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization […] a place where man’s vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant bestiality,” (40). Africa is used as a “backdrop,” devoid of any “human factor,” it is a “metaphysical battlefield […] into which the wandering European enters at his peril,” (404).