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The novel Jane Eyre and Great Expectations takes and written during the Victorian Era. The years that make up the Victorian Literature Era are 1830s to 1900s, which is the time that Queen Victoria rule. During the time of the Victorian Era, society ideals are given more power to the rich; a line separates the rich and middle/poor class. Charles Dickens’s novel; Great Expectations, and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre illustrates the differences of the social classes. Dickens uses Pip to show the dreaded

Eyre sets a strong example of female sexuality in the Victorian era. The title character confronts herself with her feelings for Mr. Rochester and her growing throughout the novel. She eventually finds the courage to embrace herself as she is. Jane’s independent mind and nature contradict the grain of Victorian society. She defies historical notions of female sexuality and Victorian codes and rules on sexuality. Brontë reimagines the Victorian notion of marriage as she emphasizes Jane’s education

significant piece of Victorian literature, written by Elizabeth Gaskell. Elizabeth Gaskell was a novelist and short story writer. Her stories usually have a contemporary attitude she emphasized more on the women’s role, complex and realistic female characters. North and south is considered as her best known work .It features a strong lead female ,a mature love story and relevant social and political explanation about industrialization and class conflict present in mid-19th century in England. Through, North

and Mr. Hyde, and the Victorian Era… do they relate? The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is a book written in a specific period of time. However, one can relate this book to the period it was written. But can a book say as much about a period as a period can about a book? Truly, in their own way, they reflect one another by the elements which drove humanity then and still drives it now—good and evil. Those elements are the crux of Jekyll and Hyde and the Victorian era: the duality of oneself

ORIAN LITERATURE Victorian literature was produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), so Brontë sisters (Charlotte, Emily and Anne) are bright representatives of the Victorian period because their famous novels such as “Jane Eyre” (1847, Charlotte Brontë), “Wuthering Heights” (1847, Emily Brontë), “Vilette” (1853, Charlotte Brontë), “The Professor” (1857, Charlotte Brontë), appeared during the Victorian period. Other leading novelists of the Victorian period were Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Orphans in Nineteenth-Century England   There is no denying that the nineteenth century in England was a time of tremendous changes throughout the social and economical spectrums. As the adults adjusted to these changes prompted by the Industrial Revolution as best they could, many children, in particular orphans, were faced with poor living conditions that limited their successes later in life. Although most orphaned children were fortunate enough to be placed into sufficient living circumstances

episode of ‘Poetry Aloud’, today we’ll be exploring the tumultuous period known as the Victorian Era. A time of societal upheaval, poets who were motivated by their negative experiences of humanity used poetry as a vehicle to change the nature of attitudes in Victorian England. Within the pantheon of Victorian poets, Elizabeth Barrett- Browning and Oscar Wilde illustrated this changeable nature of Victorian England through attempting to transform the values contemporary to their time by challenging

the Victorian Era, England was a Christian country. The only big non-Christian faith was Judaism. During the Victorian era everyone read the Bible and went to church on Sunday. The Bible was taken as the literal truth and was the foundation of virtuous behavior which became known as Victorianism. During the victorian era, text books and games were based on religion and virtues. It was believed that by the help of religion Would come the end all to crime and poverty, these were the Victorian values

Victoria, Great Britain was the centre of a global empire, controlling nearly one-quarter of the Earth. Although only a small minority of the population of the Empire was actually British, British bureaucrats directly administrated it. Moreover, Victorian age is often referred to as the period of the Pax Britannica, since the territories controlled by the British Crown lived under a relative peaceful kingdom. Especially the motherland enjoyed peace and prosperity; the only wars of this period were

the reader to mystery and suspense and also very interesting effects, but did you know that the story of Dracula has plenty of literary elements that better help the reader analyze and understand the story better than before. Dracula is a Vampire/Victorian book that expresses a lot of elements for example: symbolism. Literary terms such as gothic and romantics are terms used to discuss, classify, and analyze novels, poetry, and books like Dracula. These terms are the most important aspects in a piece