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    now more geared towards the use of internet and video games. Victorians weren’t privileged enough to have that opportunity, so to have a tasteful party, or pass the time by, they played Parlour games. With being in most Victorian homes, and with so many options to choose from, they were a must to be considered fun and tasteful. Therefore, games were a treasured aspect for Victorian living. According to “kidspot.com.au”, multiple Victorian games are available to choose from. So, to shorten the list

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    on women take over Victorian England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. However, deviant women appear to be beyond such confines. As mentioned before, women were placed in the house and labeled as “the angel in the house.” Conversely, such criterion has been undermined with the emergence of the “femme fatale” as Victorian England becomes vulnerable to internal and external threats represented by such type of evil women. As Auerbach observes, “in Victorian England, an age possessed by faith

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    female relationships in two of the following Emma, Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations-- reflect the mores and values of Victorian society “The Victorian period formally begins in 1837 (the year Victoria became Queen) and ends in 1901 (the year of her death)” (Kirschen). British novels such as Wuthering Heights and Emma reflect and uphold mores and values of the Victorian society. This is portrayed through the characters in the novels where high priority is given to the male female relationships

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    The importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde uses satire to criticize the aspects of marriage. Jack and Algernon both try to find what’s considered love in the Victorian age. Wilde satirizes what love was considered in marriage during the Victorian age. Algernon’s views on proposal and loves supposed associations with names shows the portrayed satire on marriage. Algernon doesn’t believe in the traditional ways of marriage. While Algernon is talking to Jack about marriage Algernon states “there

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    capture the culture’s conscious. Aside from telling a story on vampires, Dracula also explores ideals about the women of the time in which it was written, which is the Victorian Era. Throughout the Victorian period, one of the predominant concerns was the role of women and the place they fill in their society. Dracula is one of many Victorian novels that explore the varying roles women filled. Two of the characters

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    century Victorian feminist wrote her novel Jane Eyre as a means of exposing the confining environments, shameful lack of education, and pitiful dependence upon male relatives for survival (Brackett, 2000). Charlotte Brontë used literature as a means of feminist cultural resistance by identifying the underlying factors of how the Victorian ideologies, gender and social construction of that time was limiting, and brings to light barriers that faced women in

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    By the end of the Victorian age and the 19th century, a new critical movement headed by Oscar Wilde. The Aesthetical movement came as a reaction to prevailing utilitarian Victorian social philosophies. It argues that art and criticism as only cultivating the ennobling sensibility of beauty, therefore, art is superior to life and criticism is superior to art. However, this criticism is so much attacked and criticized. First of all, the Victorian society was extremely conservative.

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    The Victorian era depicts strong qualities, sexual limitation, and a strict social set of social rules. Throughout the Victorian period, one of the main concerns was the role of women and the place they played in society. Victorian conviction expresses that women had no sexual desire, but Brian Stoker's Dracula is a story that is a thinly veiled disguise of the repressed sexual mores of the Victorian era. It is more than clear that there are themes of female sexuality and its imagery. The Victorian

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    Chapter Two Victorian Women and Society Chapter Two Victorian Women and Society 2.1 Introduction The second chapter discusses the various pictures that reflect woman in the 19th century which states the status of women in Victorian society, the ideal lady during the era, female body in religion and society. 2.2 Women’s Status in Victorian Society Victorian society emerged after the Industrial Revolution in which it was the time of transformation from rural to urban life. This period was significant

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    The Victorian Era was a time of extremes. There was fancy city streets and gas lamps.The victorian era was also a time of exploring. Since the people 's frontier towns were born every where around the world , the victorians took them their values. The Victorian era was influenced by the reform act 1832 and the subsequent acts. This period also marked by extreme diversities with the industrial reforms, cultural progress, scientific advancement on one hand and poverty and wars on the other. The victorian

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