Guadalupe Victoria

The link “Women’s Clothing from University of Vermont” was very intriguing to me. Looking at the changes in fashion from decade to decade really interests me. I could not imagine wearing clothes from before the 1910s for more than a few hours. I am glad the text said people started realizing the negative impact constraining corsets had on women’s health. I do have to mention one of the pictures showing women’s clothing in the 1880s. It shows three women leaning on huge guns. Now I hope they were…

Imagine going to school knowing that if you were behind on something, you would be punished. Imagine only being able to see your parents in the morning and at night, and being stuck with a nanny, who would sometimes be strict and yell or beat you. Imagine being stuck in a room all day after school, and not being able to leave. This was the life of a child of the estate during the Victorian Era. Although the child’s family may have been rich, that doesn’t mean that the child would live a happy…

The Victorian era was a time of great cultural upheaval in Britain. There were new clothes, new music, new breeds of dogs, and most importantly, new forms of punishment for crimes. This cultural metamorphosis was mostly harmless, but it also gave birth to some horrific crimes as well. This fact is what makes those punishments so important. As evils both great and small were rising up, there had to be punishments to meet them at the pass. The Victorian era implemented punishments that not only…

"Etiquette" is the one word that best describes life during the reign of Queen Victoria. For those in the upper echelons of society, rules such as the proper forms of address even what to wear were all considered very important to them. However Victorian society did not recognize that there was a lower class. 'The Poor' were invisible. Status was prominent in this era as people were segregated differently depending on their own family wealth. Technically the Victorian era began in 1837 and…

To a certain extent, Source B and D support the attitude to women shown in Source A. as they all agree and accept the “angel in the house” philosophy. In Source A the date is not specified, but likely produced in Victorian era because the couple wear Victorian clothing, therefore will reflect Victorian values and concepts. The man in Source A is clearly distressed because he may have read bad news, the woman is fulfilling her role in life by comforting her husband; she is fulfilling her role in…

“I am afraid you have had very little experience in how to propose... men often propose for practice. I know my brother Gerald does. All my girl-friends tell me so” (24). Wilde criticizes the concept of a proposal by using Gwendolen’s constant irritating responses, satirical tone, and ignorance towards the subject. Individuals dwell with anxiety about making a proposal extravagant and nearly perfect, to the point where they are ignorant to the bigger picture and genuine meaning of a proposal;…

It is at the start of the 15th century that scientific discovery begins to take off. This growing interest in scientific knowledge is then showcased through art for the next three centuries, covering the renaissance, baroque and rococo stylistic periods. Although it is not a continually growing interest, the interest is always present and shifting in its use. This interest starts in early renaissance with Donatello’s sculpture of David. Donatello builds upon the realism previously made popular…

The Victorian period was a golden era for taxidermy and general morbidity. Walter Potter was an English self-taught taxidermist and became famous for his intrinsic work, in which he was able to take advantage of the increasing audience for this type of art. He stuffed and preserved animals, putting them in costumes and setting them up as if they were telling a story. He was one of the pioneers in this line of work, and the period of time in which he lived couldn’t have been better for his…

How did the British people see their empire at the end of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? They saw the Empire evolving and even some devolving. For the people living in the British empire, during the turn of the century, Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee was a time of pride and yet a time of growing insecurity about the fate of the nation, because of the concerns with status as an economic power, a strong anti-imperial sentiment was growing, and the resistance in Ireland.…

Known as the ‘Russian Byron’, Mikhail Lermontov is revered for his radical interpretation of the Romantic antihero in A Hero of Our Time. He sought to fashion “a portrait built up from the vices of our whole generation” (Lermontov, preface), to create a character who would embody the spirit of the contemporary Russian man. In what would be his only prose work, Lermontov employs traits commonly associated with the Byronic hero as the basis for the character of his protagonist, Pechorin, such as…