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implicit, physical, and even made humorous or satirical. Charlotte Brontë, a 19th century Victorian feminist wrote her novel Jane Eyre as a means of exposing the confining environments, shameful lack of education, and pitiful dependence upon male relatives for survival (Brackett, 2000). Charlotte Brontë used literature as a means of feminist cultural resistance by identifying the underlying factors of how the Victorian ideologies, gender and social construction of that time was limiting, and brings to

A gender role is a social role that shows the acceptable behaviors and attitudes based on a person's sexuality. Gender roles and stereotypes are centered on the concepts of femininity and masculinity. Gender roles differ with each culture in the way that they are accepted. Gender roles date all the way back to the Industrial Revolution, which took place around the 19th century. Men did all the hard labor while the women looked after the cottages and cared for the children during this time, that was

and encourages them to think of members of the opposite sex as “The Other”. To be this kind of man means to insist on a divide between the genders, depriving men of natural, healthy emotions and, although perhaps unconsciously, promoting the idea of male superiority. He insists that to be a man in

backdrop of 1980’s Victorian era, whose social mores leached beyond the borders of England into Ibsen's Norway. Both protagonists contravene the Victorian codes of conduct thereby generating a maelstrom of moralistic criticism on the “fallen” Tess and the “unwomanly” Hedda. An examination of the aforementioned labels allows us to unpack the discourse surrounding the ideal Victorian woman. The “fallen woman”, epitomized by Tess, is an archetypal classification of a tainted woman. Victorian moralists (Collini)

impeccable writer in regarding the description of women in the Victorian era. The Victorian age, as a patriarchal society, marginalized and basically destroyed women’s position. In Virginia Woolf’s The Waves we can see this difference between man and woman but surprisingly not always. In fact I believe the Victorian era was like a time of stagnation for women. We have six main characters in The Waves, three are females and three are males: Susan, Rhoda, Jinny and Bernard, Louis and Neville. Here

INTRO: Since the 20th century, Sweden have progressively evolved into the 6th highest ranking towards women in parliament yet, Australia has also evolved but ranks 50th for gender equality (Inter-Parliamentary Union 2017). Sweden’s women hold 152 of the 349 seats established for their lower or single house and Australia’s women hold 43 of the 150 seats. A key aspect to think about is why do these two countries vary exponentially in terms of their ranking of seats held by women in the parliament?

through the male gaze of Lydgate which maintains the objectification of women in Victorian literature and thus society. Bram Stoker’s Dracula also involves elements of the male gaze, however there is a distinct emphasis on sexuality and the female body. When Jonathan Harker sees the three vampire sisters in Dracula’s castle, the readers are subjected to a sexualized description of the females through his eyes. This erotic desire for the sisters is evident when he states, “I felt in my heart a

Written and set in the Victorian era, Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula is a fundamental stepping-stone for horror literature. Unlike most novels of its time, Dracula not only showcased the ideals of its era, but it completely flipped it on its head. Firstly, there are numerous examples of female sexuality and symbolism throughout the entire novel. In Victorian society, it was believed that women had no sex drive and only partook in sex when their male partners insisted. It was unheard of for a female

the Time Traveller, from Victorian England to the future where humanity has been reduced to two sub-species: the Eloi and the Morlock. The novella examines how key values of Victorian England, such as self-improvement, shape the social structure of the Victorian period and the cascading effects of these values on the society of the future. In the Victorian social pyramid, the upper class, white, educated male was at the top. In this social hierarchy, under this Victorian male, were the rest of the

Thomas Blackburn describes the two Victorian poets, Robert Browning and Alfred, Lord Tennyson as being great contemporaries (47). As such it is apt that their works should muse upon and explore similar topics and themes. Their connection is especially evident in Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott”. The themes of entrapment and incarceration feature heavily in both of these works. Specifically, it is the entrapment and incarceration of women which pervade their respective