Victorian Age Comparison Essay

fancy, that author has never been written this kind of plot in his other stories before. In fact, Hard Times is considered as "the unlike-the-rest of Dickens’ works" (Collins, 1992, p.xi) because the plot is not involved the social problems in Victorian Age such as poverty or child labor, but it is "an abstract that exalts instinct above reason." (Collins, 1992, p.xiii)

This essay will explore the function of setting in Jane Eyre, and will argue how Bronte used setting to portray, the oppression of women in a patriarchal Victorian society. The settings of Gateshead and Thornfield will be discussed in detail, to emphasise how Bronte’s representation of her heroine’s Gothic imagination depicted the feminist issues of the time. In addition it will consider differences, and similarities, between the protagonist Jane Eyre as ‘The Angel of the house,’ and the antagonist

Hardy’s Tess: An Indictment of Victorian Sexuality and Gender Ideology Often, great works of literature are ahead of their time, are rejected by their contemporary audience, and are only recognized as great works when time comes astride with them. For example, contemporary critics of Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre thought that it was entirely too passionate and possibly anti-Christian. Elizabeth Rigby even affirms, “that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority and violated

Dracula: The Embodiment of Late Victorian Anxieties A Literature Review of Bram Stoker’s Dracula Published in 1897, Dracula stands out as the most classic vampire novel since the twentieth century and a long-lasting paradigm of numerous adaptations. Behind the gothic elements and well-arranged suspense, for readers today, Dracula provides not only a thrilling tale about humans against monster which has also been explored by other writers like Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling almost at the

This essay will explore the function of setting in Jane Eyre, and will argue how Bronte used setting to portray, the oppression of women in a patriarchal Victorian society. The settings of Gateshead and Thornfield will be discussed in detail, to emphasise how Bronte’s representation of her heroine’s Gothic imagination depicted the feminist issues of the time. In addition it will consider differences, and similarities, between the protagonist Jane Eyre as ‘The Angel of the house,’ and the antagonist

would begin for the young artist at the age of twenty-five. Describing Bell’s abandonment of their childhood home and her role as a Victorian “mistress of the house,” her sister Virginia wrote: “She had sold, she had burnt; she had sorted; she had torn up. Sometimes I believe she had actually to get men with hammers to batter down- so wedged into each other had the walls and the cabinets

The Victorian era was an era of social change; the idea that one is not predestined to the social class one was born into became an ideology for the lower classes (House 575). Becoming a gentleman was the goal. The fascination of being a gentleman did not escape Dickens who came to age when the gentleman allure was most prominent (Gilmour 577). As much as he was effected by the abstract notion of how middle and lower-middle classes perceived gentlemen, he also noticed his surrounding’s moral values

society over the individual” (Mill 1). In other words, who or what has the right to impose restrictions on an individual or on society. The English philosopher, John Stuart Mill, argues such concepts of free expression and political theory in his essay titled, On Liberty. The work of Mill is considered to be the foundation of liberalism and modern day politics. In order to fulfill the idea of perfect liberty, there must be no restrictions or limitations enforced on expressions so that society may

The Victorian Era: Collin’s Challenging Traditional Gender Roles In 1868, British author Wilkie Collins wrote what is now famously known as one of the first full-length detective stories, The Moonstone. Within this text, he explores and transcends his writing style, as he created an atmosphere full of suspense and gothic tradition by making use of two genres famous in the Victorian Era (Ayton, 2). As Collins managed to challenge the roles of men and women within The Moonstone, he ultimately attempts

This essay will explore the function of setting in Jane Eyre, and will argue how Bronte used setting to portray, the oppression of women in a patriarchal Victorian society. The settings of Gateshead and Thornfield will be discussed in detail, to emphasise how Bronte’s representation of her heroine’s Gothic imagination depicted the feminist issues of the time. In addition it will consider differences, and similarities, between the protagonist Jane Eyre as ‘The Angel of the house,’ and the antagonist