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The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde, first performed in 1895. The title works on a pun between the adjective "earnest", meaning honest or sincere, and the name Ernest, which the two female protagonists of the play, Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are fond of. Indeed, they have this deep desire of marrying a man named Ernest. The funny thing is, their two suitors, Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing, pretend both to be named Ernest. This lie, which contradicts totally the

Have you ever wondered how life used to be during the Victorian Era? Well, back then people must've work a great deal of their lives. Also, music wasn’t ignored during this era. Then, education was different then nowadays in America. Furthermore, Health and Medicine was big thing during this era because most people were getting sick and dying because of diseases. Meanwhile, Children from different classes ate different foods. In the Victorian Era, life was very different and was the revolution of

This analysis will attempt to explore both the denotative and connotative meanings behind the two images provided in the text. The images will be evaluated based off of Victorian values so as to see how it would have been interpreted by citizens of Victorian England and the English colonies. One of the images is a photography/painting of an afternoon tea in the Victorian era and the other is an advertisement for cooking stoves. During the Victorian era, exploration, industrialization and colonization

In Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre, Brontë depicts the life of a young Jane, who meets a number of influential people, essential to her development into a civilized governess. Along her journey she struggles to conceal her emotion and passion for life, as it is improper for 19th century Victorian women. Louis James effectively analyzes the moral and religious hearth of the Victorian era through the socio-historic lens, which allows him to anatomize the content of Brontë’s novel and correlate

Women’s role in Ancient Chinese civilisation was always vital to society due to their role in the family and during the Tang and Song dynasty significant changes occurred, changing Chinese women’s lives forever. While it is no secret women were inferior to men in the history of China, not many are aware of the major differences of the status of women from dynasty to dynasty. The Tang-Song dynasties ruled from 618AD to 1279 AD and many distinct differences between these two dynasties can be observed

In the novel ‘A Passage to India’ by E M Forster there many different character that each reflect ideas, some of the ideas would be relevant to a Victorian audience. There are a plenty of ideas that reflects the attitudes and values common in the early 20th Century. Forster uses each of the characters to represent different ideas and values towards issues like racism, which is present throughout the novel. Cyril Fielding is a very interesting and unique character in the novel ‘A Passage to India’

The Power of the Druids In the Irish religion called druidism, the druids were extremely powerful, so powerful it seems that they even had to name the religion based upon these men and women of such high rank. Often called wizards, their powers were virtually limitless. Ranging from divination to creating potions to chanting spells, the druids were respected and, most likely, feared. Other than the magical abilities the druids possessed, they were also the “exclusive possessors of whatever learning

The Swastika; a symbol that is mostly known for its connection to Hitler and the terrible events that occurred in the Holocaust. The symbol, which has been used for over three thousand years to represent life, strength, and good luck by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, started to be used by Germany in the 1800s. In 1920, Adolf Hitler used the symbol of the Swastika to represent his movement, making the symbol their official flag. Since the use of the flag the swastika has since became a symbol of hate

While exploring the vast categories of craft the Victorian’s participated in, I became interested in the strange world of Victorian taxidermy. As I continued to look into this subject further, it became apparent that some Victorian crafts tended to lean into the era’s more morbid fascinations. I wondered why Victorians became so enraptured in a seemingly macabre past-time of mounting stuffed animals into the sometimes whimsical, charming dioramas to display within their homes. As I started my research

Ellen Clacy True, Diarist and Illustrator This is the writing of a true, Diarist and illustrator who wrote about her life on the gold fields of Ballarat. Her name is Ellen Clacy. If we didn’t have her books we wouldn’t have known about a lot of the importance of the gold rush as we do nowadays. Ellen Clacy was born in the year 1820 in London, England. She had one brother named Frederick, a mother called Ellen Louisa Sturma (1830-1901) and a father called Charles Berry Clacy (1825-1882). Ellen