Victorian values

Victorian Era (1837-1901), the reign of Queen Victoria. The Victorian age was flourished with various social and religious movements and sometimes been called as "Second English Renaissance". The year 1830 is usually considered as an end to Romantic period in Britain and marked the starting date for Victorianism. The Victorians were often called "prudish and repressive". They seem to be the great enemies of sexuality. Middle-Class Victorians attempt to hide, evade, repress, deny the idea of sexuality

Hanging Rock, has foreground the representation of Victorian society as repressed and constrained through the characterisation of various figures throughout the novel. The riveting tale follows the mysterious disappearance of three girls and a teacher, with only one girl to ever be seen again, during the Appleyard College’s trip to the mystic Hanging Rock on Valentine’s Day in 1900. One of the main focuses in the book is the depiction of the Victorian Society as uptight and controlled, which has been

Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market, was written in the Victorian era during a time of vast social change across Europe. Though the Victorian period was a time of female suppression and order, Rossetti exposed social stigmas and ideologies that are displayed through the journey of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. Despite initial impressions of a childhood fairytale, the suggestive and multi-interpretive use of language signifies an underlying message of erotic sexual commentary and feminist views

Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is a satirical play about the trivial values the upper-class held during the Victorian era. In this play, two men, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff, choose to bend the rules and live a double life in order to break away from the monotony of wealthy living. Algernon calls this Bunburying, and is an expert on what it means to be a Bunburyist. Algernon freely lives his life by his own code of values. One value Algernon holds is play time rather than family time. When it comes

Michael Ramirez English 8 Period:5 Victorian Education Until the Victorian era, schools were not only inaccessible to many children but also very unsafe and inadequate. In the article "Victorian School Facts For Children," it states that "It wasn 't until the Victorian era that these were improved considerably and available for all children rich and poor.” Due to social classes in England, the children who were eligible to attend school were those who descend from a family of wealth. Children of

proud works of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray throughout the existence in Victorian Society by exemplifying the truth and honesty the society doesn’t carry with them. The Victorian society does not engage in speaking of the truth and the involvement of staying honest between others. Due to trust running deep within these two terms, one must understand that the Victorian society had some trust issues between persons. As one has noticed within The Importance of Being Earnest

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

capture the culture’s conscious. Aside from telling a story on vampires, Dracula also explores ideals about the women of the time in which it was written, which is the Victorian Era. Throughout the Victorian period, one of the predominant concerns was the role of women and the place they fill in their society. Dracula is one of many Victorian novels that explore the varying roles women filled. Two of the characters

Written during the Victorian Era (1850-1900) Charles Dickens's Great Expectations has echoes of Victorian Morality all throughout the novel. When looked up in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, morality is defined as "the evaluation of or means of evaluating human conduct as a set of ideas of right and wrong and as a set of customs of a given society, class, or social groups which regulate relationships and prescribes modes of behavior to enhance the groups survival." Although

the themes, but is also used to relate many of the characters to the titular Jane. In “The Mystery at Thornfield,” Valerie Beattie makes claims that the character Bertha Mason’s insanity is a representation of rebellion toward the limitations of Victorian women. Not only is