Victorian values

woman in Victorian era. “Plucking [her flowers] too soon” represents her regret in loss of virginity too soon, although the definition of virginity is not used so literally here, it metaphorically represents her value, that is, her value to her prospective husband. She feels she is now defiled; society will undoubtedly place blame on her because she is a woman and is expected to be reserved and coy, never to be bold. Her flowers have been ruined; she no longer holds any importance or value. Ironically

explores the Victorian elements of 19th century society through symbolism in the novel’s depiction of the environment. Wells depicts the Time Machine as an impractical and extravagant construction in order to criticize the Victorian values which the Machine embodies. The White Sphinx, a statue the Time Traveler encounters when he travels the future, serves as symbol of the decay and death of the Victorian ideals. The Time Traveler’s description of the Palace of Green Porcelain, a symbol Victorian extravagance

The play, The Importance of Being Earnest, was written by Oscar Wilde in the late 1800’s. Wilde wrote the play as a means to satirize the Victorian model and social values. He points out the Victorian Period tendency to value an individual’s status and superficiality over there true personality and nature. In Act II, during Algernon and Cecily’s dialogue, Wilde creates humor by poking fun at their relationship. He achieves this by using ridiculous-diction, “double life” and irony. In the beginning

Social and Moral View of Victorian Society Through The Great Expectations Introduction: This project is about the social and moral view of Victorian society through the author of many acclaimed novels Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. Social view is basically relating to society or its organization and moral is concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior. Dickens was not only the first great urban novelist in England, but also one of the most important social commentators who used

The Victorian period was an era of constantly shifting and contradicting ideologies concerning women, which extended over many areas of society and culture including politics and the media, the family and domestic field as well as the contemporary and traditional beliefs within the art institutions. The body of the belief systems about women and the feminine ideal that are present in each of these areas involve a combination of established or traditional ideas versus those of a contemporary and

Abandon Children In the Victorian era many lower-class women abandoned their children because they didn’t have a stable financial income. Majority of the kids that were relinquished, because of absence of income in a family. The few shelters existing in the Victorian culture were awful to the point that numerous kids decided to live on their own in the city. Orphans living on their own in the city would most likely make them prone to becoming criminals. There was an abundance of things that could

Morality and Foolery In times where earnestness is priority, foolery ensues to escape societal pressure and morality takes a back seat. Oscars Wilde’s play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ highlighted this fact with satire. In the Victorian Age of London, outward appearance of seriousness, respect, and societal conformity are of the utmost importance. Citizens of this age were expected to uphold those standards, even above their own happiness and health. With so much pressure to keep up with

span of time from the Victorian age of Literature to the Modernism of the 20th century wrought many changes in poetry style and literary thinking. While both eras contained elements of self-scrutiny, the various forms and reasoning behind such thinking were vastly different. The Victorian age, with it's new industrialization of society, brought to poetry and literature the fictional character, seeing the world from another's eyes.  It was also a time in which "Victorian authors and intellectuals

The Victorian Era was an era of extreme adventure, vibrant city streets, fused gas lamps, whilst in contrast of the era’s flourishing poverty. It was the ignition of an era of exploration and science. A person's social class during Victorian determined many things during his or her lifetime. Through the author’s obsession with society and differences in class, lead the protagonist of Great Expectations into self-destruction. In the world of this novel, society is divided among class, generating

The Victorians’ Concern with Morality “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity…” (Charles Dickens). This quote helps to sum up the Victorian Era. The Victorian Era is understood to have existed during the rule of Queen Victoria between 1837 to 1901. It was thought to be an exciting period that saw various literary schools and artistic styles along with social and political