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Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet born in October 1854. “In 1871, Wilde enrolled at Trinity College in Dublin. The years from 1874-1878 were spent at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he received a first class degree in Classics and the Newdigate Prize for poetry with his poetry submission of Ravenna.” (Bloom 11). Wilde was married to a daughter of a wealthy Irish barrister in 1884, and had two sons in the following years. (Bloom 11). Before he died in November 1900, he wrote several plays, including The

During the Victorian period, women had a very specific role to play in society. They had very little influence on the public sphere, only men were to deal with business and political issues. Women were restrained to the private sphere, and were supposed to take care of the house, and of their beloved. The phrase ‘the angel in the house’ was used to describe their duty. Obviously, this applies to women of a certain rank, mostly those belonging to the middle-class. Working-class women soon had to leave

Tess- a victim of her family One does not decide what family one is born into. The innocent child, Tess, cannot be blamed for being born into a poor family. Tess is a victim of her upbringing, the situation of her father and mother as well as the knowledge of her ancestors, who were rich and prosperous. The fact that they had existed did not help Tess. However, it would have been a different story if she had been born into a wealthy family. Tess is the eldest of the family’s children and being a

Throughout history, art has reflected the morals of society and, in turn, society has projected its morals into art. In Victorian age, art cared the responsibility of being helpful for social education and moral enlightment. Hedonism and Aestheticism are main artistic and philosophical movements of the Victorian Age. The Aesthete believed that form was the essence of beauty and beauty was the highest perfection of human endevours. The Aesthetic writers broke away from the confining conventions of

Wilde uses the conventions of comedy to criticize Victorian society; four examples of this are the use of inversion, the presentation of marriage as a business deal, the use of deception and lies and the comic conservative ending. One of the conventions of comedy is inversions of gender roles and Wilde inverts gender roles of men to the women in the play most powerfully. Lady Bracknell, despite having married an aristocrat whilst she was poor, controls and dominates her husband. At one point, she

Twinkle Khanna student of BA (Hons) English,Semester 3rd doing my summer project on the topic “MATTHEW ARNOLD AS A VICTORIAN POET”.The era of Queen Victoria’s reign(1837-1901).The period is sometimes dated from 1832 (the paasage of the first Reform Bill). It was a period of intense and prolific activity in literature,especially by novelists and poets,philosophers and essayists.Much of the writing was concerned with contemporary social problems for instance the effect of the industrial revolution

Victorian morality describes the moral views and social expectations of people living at the time of Queen Victoria's rule from 1837 to 1901 which completely contrasted any morality in pervious eras. Victorians encouraged hard work, morality, social respect and religious conformity. Today, the term “Victorian morality” can describe any set of values that exercise sexual restraint, intolerance of criminality and a strict social code of conduct. The word "Victorian" has a wide range of connotations

Buddhism had corrupted so much that even one of their own members wrote to fix a decadence in their religion. Confucians scholars blamed the Buddhists’ mismanagement to justify their action of building a new dynasty . The shift of a state from Buddhism to Neo-Confucianism with the transition from Koryo to Choson is well-known, but it needs to be broken down into pieces to observe the changes that occurred. Religious status of late Koryo, religious status of Choson, and impact of changes politically and socially

tone to show how dangerous and incompetent racism is. Its is a weakness that can be exploited and twisted. This just goes to show how racism is dangerous to us as a nation. Racism is not getting better, in fact, it is getting worse. “The alt-right neo-Nazi groups are alive and well. Hate is saturating our social media. Hate is invading our college campuses. Hate is penetrating our communities and our corporate cultures. Hate is even infiltrating our churches,” Nelson points out. Hate is deep within

Women’s bodily functions were “sanitized” in the twentieth century as the result of cultural revolution that has taken society a long way from the Victorian era. The introduction of the mirror and the birth of a new industry have been the catalysts for the changes. The changes from the Victorian era where beauty was thought to come primarily from internal qualities, to the beginning of the twentieth century where beauty and the self became more externalized. Now that women could see themselves in