Victorian values

innate scorn is ill founded. Furthermore, the characters of the upper classes that grew up with privilege are depicted throughout Jane Eyre as petty or immoral: Mrs. Reed, who is “cold-hearted,” spiteful and incapable of forgiveness; Blanche, who values wealth and status over personal happiness; and Rochester, who tries to trick Jane into a false marriage. All of these characters assist Brontë in disparaging the idea that the upper class is the worthier class. Instead Brontë intimates, through the

Earlier in The Victorian Period, also known as the Victorian era began in the year 1837. It was also an important period, because it was the year that Victoria became Queen. Also years passed and the Victorian Period ended with her death in 1901. History says that the Victorian period is one of the longest periods ever. The Queen Victoria lasted 63 long years and lasted longer than many British monarchs. Despite the fact that the Romantic period lasted less than the Victorian. The Victorian period is

relationships and interactions of his characters to satirize the moral beliefs and customs of Victorian Era England. Wilde’s play follows the life of Jack Worthington who is trying to earn the approval of his fiancee, Gwendolen’s, mother in order to marry her. Lady Bracknell’s disapproval stems from the ambiguity of Jack’s birthright, despite him being a wealthy man. Her disapproval serves as a mockery to Victorian society and its upheaval of social status and wealth above love and companionship as the

has foreground the representation of Victorian society as repressed and constrained through the characterisation of various figures throughout the novel. The riveting tale ensues the inexplicable disappearance of three girls and a governess, with only one girl to ever be seen again, during Appleyard College’s annual picnic to the supernatural Hanging Rock on Valentine’s Day in 1900. One of the central themes in the narrative is the depiction of the Victorian Society as uptight and controlled, which

demonstrated the complex social structure of the Victorian era of society through comedy and satire in his play, “The Importance of Being Earnest”. Despite the play's title, neither male leading characters, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are entirely earnest. In order to secure their engagements and protect their social standings, both create long exaggerated stories and lie about their true identities. Wilde continues to display the faults of the Victorian upper class through characters, Cecily Cardew

the main contributor to the downfall of the Victorian era because it combated Victorian exclusivity and embraced expression. A major direct impact of the aesthetic movement was spurred feminism. People invested in more elaborate and bold furnishings for their lives and homes, and boundaries were expanded to give women more freedom, causing them to have a lesser presence of constriction and more of activity and frivolity (Brookes). This breaking of Victorian control through the aesthetic movement made

great insight into Victorian society and culture, its hopes, fears, likes, dislikes, its ambitions and failures and its preconceptions and contradictions (The Victorian Web, 2003) . Each picture tells a story and provides us with a great record of Victorian culture and the thoughts and pre-occupations of people throughout the 19th century. The home and the family became the centre of 19th century life and the family was the most common of all Victorian paintings. Domestic

plays written by Oscar Wilde, a great 19th century playwright. Oscar Wilde deals with something unique about his contemporary age in this drama. It addresses Victorian social issues, French theatre, farce, social drama and melodrama. All these factors influenced the structure of the play in a large scale. This play is basically a Victorian satirical drama showcasing the social, political, economic and religious structural changes that affected 18th century England. It was the time when British Empire

The Importance of Being Earnest is a play written by Oscar Wilde in 1985. The play is greatly influenced by the Victorian society of the time. The entire play is focused around gender, class and status in society. In this play Oscar Wilde reverses the role men and women played in a Victorian society. Lady Bracknell seems to play the role of a father or a man in the story. She makes all the decisions for her daughter without the presence of the husband. One example is when Lady Bracknell says

some of the ideas would be relevant to a Victorian audience. There are a plenty of ideas that reflects the attitudes and values common in the early 20th Century. Forster uses each of the characters to represent different ideas and values towards issues like racism, which is present throughout the novel. Cyril Fielding is a very interesting and unique character in the novel ‘A Passage to India’, because some of his ideas wouldn’t be relevant to a Victorian audience and he has a more modern attitude