Edwardian era

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle” (huffingtonpost.com). Anne Bronte’s novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall displays a strong sense of feminism throughout the novel. Bronte chooses to illustrate this sensitive topic through the protagonist of the novel, Helen Graham. Helen is a reclusive who is too individualistic for the time period she lives in. Because of this, she is shunned and viewed as an outcast for expressing her femininity. Helen challenges the role of women in…

Progressivism is the political orientation of those who want and strive for better conditions in government and society progressivism is a way that people thought would make things better for everyone. As the reform became increasingly popular at the state and eventually at the federal level the relationships between the government and the citizenry became increasingly difficult. The decade of the 1890s was filled with problems that needed attention. The war between capital and labor was filled…

Oscar Wilde employs satirical humor in order to set the tone of arrogance to discuss the disregards society is capable of in order to fit into social standards. These social standards are ridiculed through the use of sarcasm and exaggeration. By creating characters who are willingly refusing the obvious immoralities Oscar wilde expresses his opinion on the false illusion of marriage and the perfect family. The extends people will go through to fit into the accepted fixed image. By…

Thistles are born from redolence fighting the natural world of “rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men” (Hughes). The birth is brought about by violent imagery of a “blue-black pressure” that instills the image of a bruise. The burst forward with a vindictive manner. It comes from an unfruitful upbringing of an “Icelandic frost” armed with its painful spikes for protection. They are born from hard beginnings living I a primal state like the “gutturals” of people (Hughes). The plume…

In this book, Bradford Martin an associate professor of history at Bryant University in Rhode Island, illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative dominant power. Written as a social history, The Other Eighties offers an ambitious revision of the decade, one that emphasizes the vitality of grassroots and creative dissent. Marginalized from mainstream…

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” (Dickens 1). Charles Dickens describes the time period of the novel A Tale of Two Cities using only superlatives, as people lived in extreme wealth or extreme poverty, with nothing inbetween. In England, unfair law and order wrought mass crime upon the people. Depending on the jury’s mood on a given day, they could sentenced the accused to minor punishment, such as branding, or drawing…

the Progressive Era were for The U.S. to utilize its new power to follow three major goals: open trade with China, build the Panama Canal, and police Latin America to protect American interests. Nonetheless, The Progressive Era sits at the basis of contemporary American tolerance. Notwithstanding, progressivism is a sensation, or inclination, of an era. It IS also an idea that government needs to right the wrongs of the Industrial Age. Consequently, I feel that the Progressive Era was beneficial…

I have researched children's rights and the abuses of children during Victorian Times. Life during Victorian England was not an easy time for those in the lower class, especially for the children of poverty. Many families were poor who lived in the cities with poor sanitation and poor working conditions. Children were also part of the working poor with little to no education. For the upper classes, money was not a problem since this was the beginning of the industrial age and the rich were…

One of the most shocking aspects of life and etiquette in Elizabethan England is hygiene. Can you imagine living in a world without running water or plumbing? Where bathing was rare and toilets were nonexistent? A world without toothbrushes? These are all things that the people who lived during Shakespeare's lifetime had to deal with. Hygiene has come a long way since 1600. In Elizabethan England, hygiene depended on your social class. You got what you could afford. When considering hygiene in…

In the Industrial age Progressivism was a central idea (Schultz, 2013). It began with the idea to clean up the cities of the nation. It sought to make changes to reduce poverty, create labor reform and improve housing conditions. Two important groups to this were women and the Social Gospel movement. The Social Gospel movement fought to end poverty and prostitution. Women fought for water sanitation, garbage collection and education for the poor. They fought to end violence against African…