Victorian values

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry was particularly prevalent while she was alive. “Sonnets from the Portuguese” proved to be her most popular work. Browning was born Elizabeth Barrett on March 6, 1806; she was the firstborn of 11 siblings. Her life was closely guided by her father, Edward Moulton Barrett. Browning was a talented reader, though she never attended any formal education, and the young woman began writing poetry very early. At the age of thirteen, her father had her epic “the Battle

The Victorian period spawned a spiritualist movement, abandoning ordinary religion. The movement, which ran from 1837 to 1901, was named after Queen Victoria. Economic activity increased as the period saw the rise of the industrial revolution and advancements in various technologies: steamships, electric power, and telephones. A prevalent aspect of the time was child labor, which was considerably cheaper than conventional adult workers (Mullan). Likewise, women in the Victorian period were often

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ridicules the hypocrisy of the people living during the Victorian Era, who profess to withhold moral and honest values while truly finding a greater importance in social classes. During the Victorian Era, society was expected to have good morals and values, but it is undeniable that that is difficult to withhold when social class plays such an important role in the personal lives of everyone. Wilde alludes to this idea of hypocrisy with his main character

the drama also satirizes the very idea of earnestness, a virtue to which the Victorians attached the utmost significance. To work hard, to be sincere, frank, and open, and to live life earnestly was the Victorian ideal. Wilde not only satirizes hypocrisy and sham virtue, he also mocks its authentic presence. Wilde mocked the high society of his time play in which a number of the characters lead double lives They are adroit at saying and doing two opposing things at once, and they are virtuosic

traditional and stereotypical values, and apply a new way of thinking to the numerous aspects of the real world. The modernist movement surfaced somewhere between the years 1900 and 1930. It was a rebellious

upper class Victorians enforce their staunch values upon the lower class, engendering violent dehumanization against both the oppressors and the oppressed. In Great Expectations, Dickens uses Pip’s relationships with Estella, Mrs. Joe, and Joe to showcase how Victorians over value superiority, money, and self worth, and how those values trickle down through society to dehumanize people. Dickens questions the value of the Victorian class system by pointing out that lower class Victorians have upper

A product of the contextual values of the Victorian Era, the epistolary novel, “Dracula” written by Bram Stoker, explores the societal anxieties of the erosion of traditional Victorian values. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution and Modernism, along with the declining value of the Christian faith, Stoker challenges the contextual values of religion and female sexuality, along with the repercussions for the individual who strays away from societal constructs and expectations. 19th century

The Victorian Age, ruled by Queen Victoria in 1837 through 1901, was a time of great change in Britain. Becoming one of the most powerful nations in the world, Britain was well on its way to success. In addition to this achievement, writers also accomplished their own feats. The short story genre flourished, and authors such as Charles Dickens became well-known for their work. Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Charles Dickens embodies life during the Victorian era through genre, setting, characterization,

other at Jack Worthing’s estate in the country and their deceptive schemes are discovered. Throughout the play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde uses satire to mock the snobbery, arrogance, hypocrisy, and preposterous ideals of the Victorian aristocratic society. He specifically uses the concept that looks or appearances are more important than reality or it is a desirable quality for a person to be able to fool someone else into thinking he or she has more

(Peopling of the West, 51). At the same time, Victorian standards for dress and poise still permeated the American middle-class. These strange cultural amalgamations of America in the 1800’s proved to be catalysts for the change that the turn of the century brought in – the millions of Americans on whose back the country had flourished sought recompense in the form of leisure to match their work. While the 1800’s had been chock full of Victorian values and industrious yearnings, the 1900’s entered