Victorian era

The Victorian Era refers to the period of time in Great Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria. It was modeled after an idealized idea of her life based on some specific mores and values. People that lived in the Victorian era were very hypocritical. Everyone was expected to have a perfect family and perfect life. In reality, it was just a façade masking the real issues beneath. Women were expected to have a thorough education in music, singing, dancing, and taking care of the household. They

“Romeo and Juliet” may be one of Shakespeare’s greatest works, but the famous poet has written a numerous amount of other fantastic masterpieces. Another one of Shakespeare's great works “Sonnet 116”, was written during the Victorian time period in England. This poem is Shakespeare’s interpretation of what true love is, and what it looks like. Throughout the poem, there are many literary devices used to convey Shakespeare’s belief on true love such as metaphors, imagery, and repetition. The

Parodies of Victorian Lifestyle in Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found        "It is no accident that the grotesque style in literature tends to be prevalent in eras marked by radical change and stress.  Such was the Victorian period, within which a whirl of social, economic, and religious change took place . . ." (Chang par. 2). This distorted writing can be unquestionably seen in the works of Lewis Carroll, namely his world famous pieces, Alice's Adventures

This essay will compare and contrast the nature and function of society and social forces on Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Hardy’s Tess D’Urberville. William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair expose the social forces of the Nineteenth Century’s Victorian Era while focusing on how it affects and motivates the aristocratic members of

past twenty five hundred years? I don’t think so. From presentation of a particular subject to the elitism in the drama, everything has changed over period of time. I choose to write about the transformation in status of women from Greek drama to Victorian Era because it is a form of triumph. Along with progress in field of science and technology, the inevitable revolution in the field of literature shouldn’t be disregarded. In Prometheus Bound, the character of Io is very destitute and desolated. Where

The towns and hospitals of Victorian England worsened the sanitary situations but helped create sanitary reform efforts. Most towns in Great Britain were beginning to experience problems with overcrowding in the urban areas. “Housing and sanitary facilities could not keep pace with such growth. Customs, technologies, and administrative practices that might have been adequate in older cities or in small villages proved grossly insufficient in the industrial cities” (Victorian Social Medicine p. 125)

Throughout the Victorian Age, there was great controversy surrounding the relationship between religion and science. During this era, writers began investigating the idea of natural forces modifying organisms throughout their existence rather than God creating every organism with specific attributes to meet their needs. As a result, the ideology known as Darwinism emerged throughout the age. Later in the era, Darwinism was tweaked to describe the intricacies of human society and the varying levels

From 1837 to 1901 marks a new era for England, as it is ruled under Queen Victoria bringing an age of peace, prosperity, and a new nationalistic attitude within England itself. The large increase in population and a shift to a trade and manufacturing economy brings a new sense of competition amongst the citizens, developing a new value in aesthetics, status, and wealth to prove dominance in the ever-growing society. Economic success, an ideal which began as a strictly upperclass desire, soon trickled

Introduction Robert Louis Stephenson's masterpiece, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) symbolizes Hyde as a representative of the specific Victorian anxieties. He is seen as the ugly, deformed, apelike, but also reflecting Victorian fears about Darwinian evolution theories of humanity's deform from ape, and fears the newly enfranchised working classes. This essay will explore the function of the narrative which helps the readers to perceive the meaning of the narrative. It will do so in terms

Victorian Sexuality in Stoker’s Dracula, LeFanu’s Carmilla, and Polidori’s Vampyre Literature is representative of the time in which it is produced. Literature can reflect societal views, attitudes, and fears.Vampire literature, in particular, often represents the fears of a society.In the Victorian Era, a time of intense sexual repression, it was common for vampire stories to reflect the fear of sexuality that was rampant in society. Bram Stoker’s Dracula illustrated fears about sexual