Neo-Victorian

characterised by the accurate portrayal of everyday life and social conventions. Premiered in the 1879, Denmark, “A Doll’s House” initially received heavy criticism for its controversial attitude towards marriage norms and the role of women in society. In a Victorian society dominated by men, Ibsen saw the injustice that existed with regard to the position of women. As reflected by the character Nora, Ibsen was well known for producing women who were powerful, strong willed and independent…

The clear division of roles between males and females in the late 19th century Victorian era, display distinct characteristics that define how a man and woman are to behave. These attributes, or gender roles, determine the standard of society, and is what is considered to be acceptable behaviour. Author, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, more commonly known as Lewis Carroll, challenges the patriarchal gender roles in the Victorian Era by exchanging the typical attributes associated with males and…

“Victorian fears about women's behavior evolved into a national debate known as "The Woman Question," which encompassed issues such as property ownership, marriage contracts, inheritance law, and female sexuality, among others.” A quote from an article called “Staking Salvation: The Reclamation of the Monstrous Female in Dracula.” The “New Woman,” concept which is used to describe Mina Harker in “Dracula is a woman who wishes to be educated, sexually, economically self-sufficient. This shows…

“A woman is never looking upon as an independent person since she has constantly been assigned a secondary and comparative position. Man can consider of himself devoid of woman. She cannot think of herself without man and she is simply what man decrees” (Beauvoir 534). Similar to most post modernist literary texts, Home is satirical, vague and open-ended. The novel is in a full circle and assumes post modernist outlook in its open ending though Manju Kapur has shown Nisha arriving at a crucial…

Realism is a literary movement in the nineteenth century and is used in literary works to depict real life of this world that we are living in. When an author uses realism in his writing, all aspects of the works are taken into account; the characters, the setting as well as the themes should portraying the reality of this life. The protagonist in the realist works usually is from common people and is dealing with the same thing as the people at that particular era are dealing with, for instance…

HIST 900 Said Comps Summary Tags: Said, Orientalism, Orientalist, Post-Colonial, “other,” “othering”, Oriental, Occidental 1. Footnote: Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books, 1979). 2. Thesis: Said’s Orientalism responds to the European and American trend in history to divide Eastern and Western or Oriental and Occidental histories by comparing the “exotic” East to the “civilized” West. This division “others” the East and asserts the West’s power and dominance over the East…

During the Victorian period amongst many issues human sexuality, gender, and religion was heavily debated. Human sexuality is an element that has been evolving since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Sexual preference is one of the most criticized matters in society; moreover, to speak of sex is often taboo. These opinions are comparatively due to old teachings of religion. Although human sexual preference has become more accepted and published; however, during the Victorian period,…

skin color, one’s status seems to be given automatically even before she sees the light of the world out of mother’s womb. Absurdly, people have despised others with this kind of things that people could not actually change or choose. During the Victorian time period that this novel depicts, it seems all people, saying ‘this is the way it is.’ But Tess, as one of the most purest human beings in nineteenth-century British literature, stands up against the cruel contemporary society, which is full…

Thomas Hardy is one of the most renowned poets and novelists in English literature history. Hardy’s career spanned through the Victoriana and the Modern Eras. During his eight-eight years of life he lived through many upheavals, such as World War One. He was often criticized for his work because of its existentially bleak outlook and sexual themes. Hardy wrote fourteen novels and several poems through the course of twenty-six years. Hardy’s great novels, included Tess of the D’Ubervilles…

People living in the Victorian era are often thought of as individuals who lived under the pressure of the period’s values, and this was reflected on the concern of what was ‘good’ and ‘bad’ (or in other words, ‘evil’) that was represented in the literature produced at that time. Good could be defined as ‘having in a large or adequate degree the qualities or properties desirable in something of the specified kind; of high or acceptable quality, standard, or level’, whereas evil would be ‘the…