The Progressive Era Essay

Victorian society? While contemporary weddings are often a symbol of love and commitment between the bride and the groom, for the history of the past, love actually played a very minor role in the majority of matrimonies that took place. In the Victorian era, marriage was not as romanticized or fairy tale-like as depicted in many novels of the time, it were seen as two families joining together forming a business deal in a beneficial arrangement or alliance. Great expectations were placed upon…

narrative of Mrs. Ramsay, but rather in the struggle for autonomy that Lily and Mrs. Ramsay’s unmarried daughters experience. They act as signs of optimism in the patriarchal world they exist in. Woolf criticizes the expectations for women in the Victorian era through the characterization of Lily Briscoe, the daughters’ rejection of the feminine ideals…

Treatment of Women in “Othello” and “Trifles” Throughout history the handling of women has evolved. From the Victorian Era to the latter half of the nineteenth century many authors have championed the unfair treatment of women in books, poetry, short stories, and plays; however two authors have penned works worthy of comparison. In “Othello,” a maiden marries for love; however she is ultimately the fatal victim of her love. On the other hand, in the play “Trifles,” the downtrodden Minnie murders…

a product primarily consumed by women. (Gitelman). Not only were women in the right place physically to be the phonograph’s most important consumers, but they also were in the right place mentally. Women were meant to be listeners in the Victorian Era. They were “vessels of culture and models of self-cultivation,” and not meant to speak. Rather, they to be seen. (Naeem 461, Katz…

How does Charles Dickens explore Pip's state of mind ? William Priddy, 1ere ES1 'Great Expectations', by Charles Dickens, presents Pip's constant moral evolution. This particular extract reflects Pip's state of mind in his adolescence, following the year he spent visiting Miss Havisham. These encounters have presented to him an alternate lifestyle that he would not have been aware of otherwise. He begins to reflect on his own life and sees himself as inferior to Estella and her education.…

Two of his works, The Importance of Being Earnest and An Ideal Husband, portray Wilde’s ideas and attitudes toward Victorian literature in a satirical manner, encouraging audiences to recognize a deceptive society under Queen Victoria’s rule. The era of Victorian literature came on the wings of the diminishing Romantic period. Poetry about nature and abstract concepts transitioned to societal-focused works as more and more poets focused on the issues of their reality…

century, this feeling would be transformed into threat and fear. Taking into account all the theories presented along the Victorian era, one cannot not think of the impact that the working class had on literature. How would one still sympathise with Dickens’s children characters, Gaskell’s factory workers or characters in the other novels of that time, such as the ones from the Bronte…

. . . pejorative sense, as prudish or old-fashioned” (“Victorian 536-7). Indeed, the whole era is summed up as silly and pretentious by this usage of the word—but moreover, the word itself is an insult. This suggests the extent to which the subsequent generation disliked the Victorians, or at least their prudish customs; they felt so negatively about these conventions that they characterized the whole era in a disparaging light. However, there is a case to be made that they were correct in what…

Literary masterpiece Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë creates the perfect novel to review from a social and economic position. Starting poor and dependent on the none-so-kind Reed family for food and shelter, Jane Eyre progresses in both social status and economic wealth through her time at Lowood, into Thornfield, past Moor House and the economic prosperity that it brings, and finally into happiness she finds back at the crippled Mr. Rochester. Throughout the novel, Brontë expresses a number of…

because of its high morals and ethics, as well as its social customs. Men and women had difficult responsibilities that were expected to be carried out. The duties held liable for depended on the class the women and men belonged to. In the Victorian Era, the roles between men and women were sharply defined, in favor in men. Throughout this time period, men were superior to women. According to an article by Yildirim, “Victorian Britain, with its rigid gender roles, was a strictly patriarchal…