Victorian values

28 October 2017 The Folly and Dual Identities of the Victorian Society Stephen Colbert states, “Status is always ripe for satire; status is always good for comedy.” The timeless message of the social elite’s obsession with their self-imposed high statuses is the target of Oscar Wilde’s satirical play, The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde defaces the reputations elites upheld in the Victorian era and outlines the deviant display of Victorian manners as hypocritical. The quick-witted dialogue of

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)

By the end of the Victorian age and the 19th century, a new critical movement headed by Oscar Wilde. The Aesthetical movement came as a reaction to prevailing utilitarian Victorian social philosophies. It argues that art and criticism as only cultivating the ennobling sensibility of beauty, therefore, art is superior to life and criticism is superior to art. However, this criticism is so much attacked and criticized. First of all, the Victorian society was extremely conservative.

The expectations of what “proper” Victorian women should strive to be and the other types of Victorian women (e.g. fallen women) is represented in Gothic literature. In the Victorian era, there is the moral expectation for women to be innocent and chaste. However, the character Laura featured in Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market and Lucy Westenra presented in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, challenges the conservative code of values of Victorian society as their personalities and “wrongful” doings make them

novella shocked readers of its time. The novella offered new scientific thought, which many feared and could not accept. Primarily, The Victorian era, during which the novella was published, valued appearance and reputation. The era encouraged and strived for propriety, mainly on the surface. It rejected anything that went against society’s rigid, restraining values. It resisted anything that appeared immoral and corrupt. The era was

The universal values portrayed through the texts ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ (1845) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1926) highlight the similar and different intertextual perspectives and values relevant to the Victorian Era and 1920 's Jazz Age. Both composers offer compelling critiques of their society dedicating thematic concerns of the restorative power of hope and courtly idealised love. Through numerous literal techniques, substantial diversity

Mary Dang Professor Suarez English 2323 26 October 2015 The Victorian Age: An Upper Class Society The Victorian Period, the years between 1837 and 1901, was named after the reign of the great Queen Victoria in English civilization. It was during her regime that England gained economic prosperity, experienced the rapid growth of the empire, encountered dramatic changes and religious beliefs. Various social classes represented the population of England, comprising of the upper class, the middle class

Jehanzeb Siddiqui English September 4th 2014 Victorian England Essay Part 1: Victorianism defined Victorianism is an era which is difficult to understand as it is spread over several periods giving rise to many events. On one hand it is considered as an era of power and paradox while on the other hand this era also describes Victorians as confident, socially responsible people having a vision of the world beyond. The problem of describing Victorianism has also been well addressed by M.H. Abrams in

powerful. Since “Earthly Paradise” was written in Victorian times, beauty was highly focused on; it was culturally expected for women to exert tremendous amounts of energy on the way they looked. On the other hand, Night of the Ninjas focuses more on Morgan’s ability to time travel to different historical periods rather than her aesthetic. Because Night of the Ninjas is from modern times, beauty and perfection are not as important as they were in the Victorian era, so Morgan’s powers are highly valued and

"Dover Beach", but also describes a more "liberated" relationship; the poem is as free from what some would consider stuffy Victorian morals as it is from references to Sophocles. Hecht's urbane and flippant persona tends to win over its audience, whether they find irony in the poem that adds to their appreciation of "Dover Beach", appreciate the poem as a criticism of Victorian morals, or laugh at Arnold's apparent inability to give his girl "a good time." "Dover Bitch" also seems to give more power