Neo-Victorian

character known as Professor James Moriarty. Doyle’s creation of Moriarty was influenced by major criminals, who were known for terrorizing Victorian England such as Adam Worth and Jack the Ripper. Doyle had designed Moriarty to be a criminal mastermind who represents an opposition towards Victorian morality, and made him an “other” of Victorian England’s society. Victorian morality was a strict ethical code and a low tolerance for crime, which were the values of people living in 19th century…

independance and her willingness to take on a job which only men were supposed to do. In the article “Women in the Victorian Era” by Trudy Mercadal, “The Victorian era lasted a long time and had different impacts across gender, social class, and countries.” This means the time period affected the middle class differently. “In comparison with Panchal 4 modern women, Victorian women were isolated from the spheres of work and…

The Designs of Georgian Tea Caddies This essay provides a brief introduction to the history of the arrival of tea into England and the subsequent development of the use and design of tea caddies during the Georgian and Regency periods. The essay concludes with the examination of the designs of two Georgian tea caddies. Introduction of Tea into England Catherine of Braganza, the Portuguese wife of King Charles II, introduced tea drinking to the English Royal Court in 1662…

In Jack Black’s novel, You Can’t Win, there is a passage where Jack Black addresses the reader directly. It is during this passage that he describes, in depth, what he does, and how he does it. Although this passage lasts for only eight pages – from page 195 to page 203 – the reader becomes fully immersed in the life of a burglar. Through this passage, the reader understands the care and effort that gets put into every burglary that Jack Black participates in. Although we do not see the planning…

Pip altered many of the characters lives in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations when he rose up, and ultimately down, the social ladder. When Pip acquired his fortune, he rose from society’s bottom rung of the ladder to the top. Consequently, he changed both physically and mentally, from being an innocent boy to an arrogant man. Also, Pip came to the realization that how he dealt with the people who cared for him was absolutely wrong; this had an repercussion on each one of the story’s…

developing their individual personalities. Chopin’s characters were usually socially accepted but rebelled against the social codes of the day. The Victorian period that shaped Chopin’s life was the subject used in many of her writings and the settings of her short stories and novels exist…

In the late 19th century, also known as the Victorian Age, scientific advancements and a newfound concern for human rights shaped the literary movement of realism. Henrik Ibsen emerged as one of the most influential playwrights of the realism movement. Ibsen particularly focused on the middle class, women’s rights, and moral dilemmas. Ibsen’s beliefs and the composition of his plays proved him to be an individual concerned with his society and the people in it. With its social class, gender…

“The Importance of Being Ernest” by Oscar Wilde reveals that living in the Victorian era is complicated due to the social norms from that time period. Furthermore, the upper and lower class represent the rupture in the Victorian era, lady Bracknell demonstrates the hypocrisy from the higher class towards the lower class and the use of the false identities represent the irony of Jack and Algernon’s way of thinking. Therefore, social convention brings challenging issues to most of the characters…

Jane Austen’s novel pride and prejudice presented four married couples, non-of the couples are a like in their love story and personalities. In that era, women were concerned a lot about marriage and who to marry which was an important thing in women’s life because mostly the women’s financial stability is on men or husbands. Austen in the novel she presented several contrasting attitudes to marriage. Austin focused mainly on pride and prejudice which presents true love, while there was other…

INTRODUCTION. The Age of Innocence is one of the most famous novels of Edith Warton since it won the Pulitzer in 1921. It is placed in 1870 old New York. It explores its society, its conventionalisms and its rigid system in which everything has an order and a purpose. We are introduced to a love triangle which will show us a society that fears scandals more than feelings. Trough the three main characters, Edith Wharton portrays a society she knows well, and that eventually would have to flee.…