19th-century theatre

a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. He worried that the factories might take away the individuality of the workers and replace it with order and uniformity. Emerson’s philosophy was his teaching to the individuals who lived in the nineteenth century America, a place in time of “new lands, new men, new thoughts” that at times fostered and at times…

Modernism began in the late 19th century and spanned to the early-mid 20th century. It most likely originated in the industrial revolution, rapidly gaining momentum after the First World War, until a swift disillusionment stifled it during the Second World War (Kuiper; Deggan). As a genre, Modernism is generally defined by a self-conscious and radical reform of traditional forms of expression (Kuiper). T.S Eliot wrote and published his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in the early…

In his chapter on Railroads and Patent Furniture, a much different scale is addressed, that of the train interiors, their spatial arrangement, and their mechanics . Not only is the train made available to the public in North America in the mid-19th century as a vehicle to get from point A to point B, but they are made comfortable of all riders, regardless of what social class they are in, the design of the train cars themselves aspire to be comfortable to everyone for the duration of their…

Jane Austin uses her book Pride and Prejudice to make a statement about how unfairly women were treated during the 19th century. She explores the ideas of feminism and equality in the context of society and social classes through the daughters of the Bennet family. During the time that the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet grew up, society viewed women as weak, passive, and inferior to men. Nevertheless, Elizabeth refused to submit to the social norm and the idea that women are solely useful for…

Anagha Bandaru 12/14/17 Pd. 5 Things Fall Apart and Gilgamesh Comparison Essay: Gender Roles Women always have been undermined in society. Though now, in the 21st century, they have more rights and freedom, it wasn’t always like that. They were always the lesser sex, including in today’s society, always coming after men. However, some civilizations/countries had slightly different views on men. For example, in Gilgamesh, even though women are still depicted as lustful and house wives, women…

The Gilded Age, an era of mixed progression, occurred from the 1870s to the early 1900s. The United States had just come out of its Reconstruction period prior to the Gilded Age; a newly established United States was ready to be molded, or rather, “gilded.”Mark Twain, a famous author, named the era between the 1870s and early 1900s the Gilded Age. Twain gave this era such a name because this time period displayed American civilization to be cheap and flawed at its core. Although the economy was…

understand the true meanings and representations of Gilded age and progressive era separately. For Gilded age, it is an era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. Specifically, during this period, the industrialization of the United States grew and developed in a dramatically fast rate based on the factories and railroad construction and coal mining. Basically,…

The Hidden History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art One of the largest and most respected cultural repositories in the world, the celebrated Metropolitan Museum of Art has been New York City’s premier center for art and culture for well over a century now. The largest and most visited art museum in the Western Hemisphere, the museum contains more than two million artworks and artifacts spanning some 5,000 years of human history. Few people, however, really know the history of the museum and its…

many, especially women of the 19th century, it remains a stale and blind relationship with which the only binding is a legal one - marriage. In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, the protagonist Edna Pontellier is conflicted in her inability to escape conventionality for true independence because, in any instance, she still relies on a man to define her identity. She is either the possession of her husband or an accessory to her lover, showing how women of the 19th century did not have the power to…

were not given tax breaks, life was hard for farmers in this day while everything was still working out. Although it was rough to situate into this brand new environment, so many great things came out of this so called “Gilded Age”. The late 19th century saw the creation of the modern industrial economy.…