Historical eras

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…

This particular era was an age of reform and movement and many of the members were never a unified party although they advocated for the same reform, and they were all different individuals that consisted of upper class, middle class, industrial workers, women as well…

In the 19th century, British society was ruled by Queen Victoria and her ideals. During the Victorian Period, many artistic styles appeared, as well as political and social movements. Furthermore, the era was characterized by rapid change and developments in nearly every field, from advances in medical, scientific and technological knowledge to changes in population growth and location. It was the Age of the Empire, prosperity and great political reform, but also it was a time of contradiction.…

. . . 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…

Final Essay Narrative threads can be transformed and presented differently between an adaption and original text to allude to separate and various layers of the significant historical background, characters, and themes of the same story. Satyajit Ray’s adaption of Premchand’s “Chess Players” attempts to delineate the historical scene in nineteenth-century Lucknow, a city distinguished for its Nawabi or aristocratic style, its potent civic decadence and its relished taste in music and the…

Henrik Johan Ibsen has a prominent place in the genre of realism in theatre. He is called the father of realism and modern drama. He was born on March 20, 1828 in Skien, Norway to Knud Ibsen and Marichen Altenburg. His father was a general merchant. Henrik Ibsen’s childhood was full of poverty because of his father’s financial setbacks. At the age of 15, he stopped going to school and joined as an apprentice in an apothecary in Grimstad. The poverty had a strong influence on his plays. He had…

Attendants, ca. 547, both illustrate powerful individuals from the time periods. While both artworks are about powerful leaders they have a wide stretch of time between them. The mosaic of Theodora and Her Attendants is a part of the Byzantine art era. Byzantine art was art produced in the middle ages, and usually centered in Constantinople. The artwork from this time were very connected with early Christianity in that most of the artwork and architecture were a part of a church, much like…

INTRODUCTION Humour, comedy and laughter occupy a large space in the accounts of the Victorian literature and culture. On the one hand, comic representations were everywhere, and attained a high cultural prominence (Rosenthal, 2015). Many of the Victorian novelists recognized as masters in using humour such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray being the most prominent in the use of comic techniques (Ibid.). Meanwhile, it was a comic periodical, it was the time that became the…

endured throughout his life he still managed to become an influential historian, and become successful regardless of his financial, family and career problems. He had a very different childhood than most think he had, and growing up in the Elizabethan era wasn’t the easiest for him either. He took the word success to a whole new level in his time and left a huge impact on the world of theatre as a whole. Shakespeare has been known for his strong writing skills and famous plays, poems and sonnets…

Phenomenon of vampires is highly incorporated in today’s popular culture with a large number of books, films, and TV-series about them emerging every year. Still, many people cannot deny that Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” is an exceptional literary creation that stood at the origins of the cult of vampires. Not only did this Victorian novel, written in 1897, become a landmark piece of gothic literature, but also it defined the contemporary form and image of vampires and paved the way for multiple…