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and was an important signifier of social class. For example in the grand balls that often featured in Victorian novels, a restrictive corset was part of the essential uniform – Becky Sharpe in Vanity Fair for example. It also became associated with the ‘dandy’ aesthetic of the late Nineteenth Century (Oscar Wilde being an example) when it was worn by men. In the latter part of the Victorian era there were significant developments signaling the decline of the corset. The way garments were produced

Mental illness in the Victorian era was in no way looked at with the same perspective that it is today. Unlike the Victorian Era, today’s society generally treats its mentally ill members with compassion and sympathy, not disgust and ill-treatment. However, many years ago the opposite of today’s treatment was very much acceptable. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, set in Victorian England, demonstrates such difference, as it is acceptable for a woman to be hidden and put under lock in key solely for

“you’re a guy and you aren’t supposed to write or you’re a women, you are supposed to stay at home.” Well the people didn’t care what they had to do to get published, so they used pen names. Pen names helped both men and women today and in the Victoria era, and it helped them stay anonymous. To begin with, even today pen names have helped both men and women. Both women and men had hard times getting their books or poems published. People discriminated women because they thought that women were meant

perspectives of the Victorian era. The play uses the relationships between Algernon and Jack to mock the general tolerance for how hypocritical and meaningless of any real moral value in upper-class Victorian society was Algernon, one of the more dandy, cynical characters is used by Wilde to really satirize Victorian virtues while displaying the male life of deception in the 1800s. His paradoxical attitudes tend to come off as absurd or to reflect the double standard moral codes during that era. This is depicted

ladies to fall for the same Ernest. The term “lampoon” means to, “publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.” (OED) This term can be applied to The Importance of Being Earnest as it lampoons the hypocrisy of the Victorian society as it tries to preserve appearances of respectability and hide cruel intentions. Wilde’s intentions are to expose the hypocrisy and reveal the cruel, manipulative and brutish manners

belief that he is a power hungry misogynist whilst his wife naturally becomes the protagonist, as her husband does not treat her as an equal. The entire play itself is submerged in the issue of individual versus society. Women and men during the Victorian Era were known to have two separate callings known as separate spheres. The idea of separate spheres is based on the ‘natural’ characteristics of men and women. It is said that women are weaker and more moral thus they are more suited for the domestic

March 6th, 2012 Title and Author The title of the novel is The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Setting and its Significance The Awakening is set in New Orleans at the end of the Victorian era. The significance of the novel being set in the Victorian era is the way women are treated and looked at. For a typical Victorian woman, she was expected to be faithful and do what the husband desires, take care of the children, and basically be entertainment for man. If affects the novel because the main character

FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND CONFLICTS IN HARD TIMES & PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Introduction The Victorian Era, in which Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; and Dickens’s Hard Times were written, saw a significant shift in the form of writing through a novel. The form began in the Romantic Period, with novels reeling under the category of “pop” literature (Greenblatt, 2012a). However, under the edifice of the Victorian Era, novels not only gained popularity, but began to be viewed as much more reputable in literary

held within Victorian society. The calm country setting of the South created an obedient and domestic representation of women, while the hardships of urbanization in the North forced women to take on a more masculine role –where working is more typical and accepted –thus demonstrating the role of women in the North as more independent than women of the South, but still obedient to men. The female heroine of North and South, Margaret Hale, exemplifies the traditional role of a Victorian woman as demonstrated

Derek Chao Ms.Roberts AP Literature November 18 2015 Awesome Essay Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë, illustrates a British society that depicts an uneven distribution of wealth among people in the Victorian Era, creating this gap between the rich and poor. Social class in British society was made of the lower, middle, and upper class. Brontë implemented characters like Mr.Brocklehurst and the Reeds to show that characters that were high in class and supported the social hierarchy were not