1.1. The background of research Oscar Wilde lived in Victorian era of the 19th Century, when the industrial revolution was going on in the Britain. The society in that time has undergone unprecedented change. Most people were greedy and mercenary. At the same time, the capitalist system was established in Western Europe. The capitalist system plays a big role in human mind. People's world view and values have changed a lot The responsible Oscar Wilde is extremely dissatisfied with the…
Gimpel was a fool in a different way Gimpel the Fool is a short story written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story is about a bread maker, Gimpel who lives in a small town somewhere in Europe sometime in the early 20. century. Everybody consider Gimpel as a fool and give him seven sobriquet. The people from the town make cruel jokes at Gimpel’s expense. The folk thinks he belives everything they tell him because Gimpel does not say a single word, for example: I do not belive you or You are lying,…
A literary work exists because of society. Literature is a written work and relates to the society, they cannot be separated. Through literature, we could see how the author depicts the society and their social circumstances. Therefore, literary work is the reflection of the real life. It can describe the events in our life, and also contains the stratification which indicates that literature and society is closely related because literature expresses the situations and problems existing in…
Introduction In the film, “Mean Girls”, a young girl named Cady Harson enters the American School system after being home-schooled in Africa. For the first day of school, she finds herself overwhelmed with fear being surrounded by so many teenagers in the school. She was introduced as a new student to the many different social groups, but she was especially introduced as one of the Plastics. The plot begins when Cady decides to take down the group’s leader, Regina George, in order to sabotage…
Men saw women as second-class, but women wanted mutual respect between them and men, as well as the independence to fully participate in society. Two intellectuals best exemplify the dichotomy of viewpoints on mutual respect between genders. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a leading philosopher who believed that women were second class to men: “The whole education of women ought to be relative to men...to make life agreeable and sweet…
Tess is a lower class girl who is forced to go to Alec D’Urberville to get the surname D’Urberville and marry Alec for the sake of becoming an upper class. When Angel and Tess meet however, they disregard the idea of class and they both fall in love. Although it seems as if Tess does not love Angel because she would not marry him, it was just because of the fear she had of her not being in the right social class and not being pure. Angel even starts working in the…
Being the age of contrasts, the Victorian society suffered from a number of social issues such as poverty, class distinction, criminality. The industrialization deepened the problems involving children as well. They were forced to work in factories and workhouses, which became prisons for them. It is of great importance to deal with Charles Dickens ( 1812-70 ) to represent the nineteenth century social life in all its drastic changes and development. In Oliver Twist, Dickens’s second…
and soft realities, where relations and situations are presented without idealizing, flattering or romanticizing. It deals specially with the issues of middle working class and lower class rather than only addressing to aristocrats and royalty. Protagonist is an ordinary character unlike heroes with conventional traits of goodness, class and great virtues. Language in realistic work…
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, and be respectable.” (Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray). This is a light-hearted and humorous musing of the appeal to be young again, which summarizes the hedonistic worldview of Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray that may ring true to others. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel that is set in Victorian era London; a society in which appearance and wealth are held at an extremely high…
period and the renaissance, with the rise of a bourgeois middle class. He states that the bourgeois rose up due to their individual prowess and practicality, leading to the rise of the exceptional individual protagonist in theater. Machiavelli's plays propound the value of intellect separated from morality, through which characters get what they want. He talks about Machiavelli and Poetics of Virtu. The feudal abstraction where the ruling class dictating the content of the plays that were put up…