Edwardian era

“The Tone of Time” and “A Rose for Emily” both are stories that having female as a leading role. Mary J. Tredick in “The Tone of Time” and Emily Grierson in “A Rose for Emily”, ladies who are similar but opposite, males had once taken an essential position in their lives. When the males left, both the ladies’ lives are affected. With the influence of males, are Mary and Emily eccentric characters victimized by men? In this essay, I will argue it by discussing their characteristic with the…

people seek in marriage. The Regency era was going through a time of enlightenment, where the traditional practice of marrying to gain money or power was beginning to conflict with marrying for affection and love. Pride and Prejudice shows this difference in the marriages that take place, some people which prioritize reason over love, others love over reason. Jane Austen uses the marriages in Pride and Prejudice to show the clash of marital values during the Regency era. The first marriage in…

Rhetorical Strategies Used in E. B. Browning Letter In her letter to the French Emperor Napoleon III, Elizabeth Barrett Browning formulates a very convincing argument by the use of her rhetorical devices such as a pathos appeal to her subject, alliteration; a repetition of words, imperative sentences, asyndeton, and similes as methods of persuasion in order to convince Napoleon to pardon Victor Hugo. Browning attempts to undermine her own authority and lack of title, as a means to show…

The most important character among three Christmas ghosts in A Christmas Carol Christmas Carol was an influent novel which was written by Charles Dickens throughout one and half century about a life of Ebenezer Scrooge as a negative, penny-pinching and distasteful man in London. No one had ever wished to work as an employee in his office after his best business partner Jacob Marley died except Bob Cratchit. Nothing in the world would scare Scrooge if it wasn’t about the gold…

The Irish author Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker wrote in 1897 the horror novel ‘Dracula’. From all accounts, that Stoker based his horror novel on Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, who was a malicious count resident in Transylvania, the now-existing Romania. Dracula is an epistolary novel that falls under the category ‘Gothic fiction’, which combines horror, death, love and lust. The word ‘Gothic’ refers to the pseudo-medieval buildings (Gothic architecture), in which many of the narratives are set. By…

As suggested by Sierra et al. (2015, p. 40), Princess Mononoke recreated some complex archetypes of female characters and their connection with nature. The portrayal of of San and Lady Eboshi ‘reflect subconscious anxieties about women in positions of power’. Napier (2001) also argued that Princess Mononoke film has had ambiguous archetypes and icons; ranging from the notion of the emperor’s characteristics to the traditional symbolism of feminism, to create a new vision of a Japan’s history.…

From the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, industrialization and expansion changed the face of American society. The rise of poverty and class disparities encouraged social reformers to try and better the nation. Members of these reform organizations attacked prostitution, illegitimate pregnancy, marriage, and a myriad of other social “ills.” While men commuted to work, Victorian middle-class homes became the domain of women, who entertained guests, educated and raised the children and…

To continue with, in order to answer the question of “Was Andrew Carnegie a Hero?” we must first discuss the time period that he was concerned with. The Gilded Age in United States history is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about the 1900. It was a time of excess and new awakenings. These awakenings led people to learn new modes of dealing with each other financially, socially, and economically. It was time bliss. Yet, it was a time misconceptions. The Gilded Age and the first years of…

Dracula’s life inspired much of the monster himself. The Victorian society ideals on behavior seen in the novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker, contrast to those seen in modern society. Religion played a large part in the way people acted in the Victorian era. For example, women must marry…

Gender playes a very crucial role in Frankenstein. Gender is one of the most important and influensial themes in Mary Shellys text. Marys mother was an 18th century femenist and her writings molded Mary and her stabs in gender roles and themes. Gender has the ablity to influence an entire novel. with the help of her mother's teachings, with gender being a prominent role, so do the stereotypes and rolls that follow. Mary Shellys mother, Mary Wolstonecraft, was an English writer and femenist in…