Pre-Columbian era

In Kate Chopin’s, The Awakening, the novel highlights Edna’s awakening as she defies the expectations and standards that are held over most women within their Victorian society in the late 1800s. In Mike Newell’s, Mona Lisa Smile, the film introduces an engaged student as Wellesley College named Betty, who’s feels as if her purpose is to be the perfect housewife and future mother. Based on the content within the film and the novel, Chopin’s novel is highly effective. Through protagonist analysis…

Efforts for social reform by muckrackers and Progressive Era reformers were responsible for their present-day social developments and closely associated with today’s socioeconomic standings. As a nation, which was founded upon the ambition and need for social-environment modifications, the United States continually brings forth change and improvement. Muckrackers and Progressive Era reformers were the voice and advocate of the people. Their efforts, though some unsuccessful, were influential in…

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…

The Victorian Era was a period during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), where England had an outreach across the world through the use of colonialization and their development of science and technology. Darwin’s evolutionary theory of humans coming from ancestors of apes caused huge uproar, which got people thinking about god and religion. Also, due to the new found industrial revolution causing a rapid growth of factories, mills, industries and the ever growing middle class caused people…

In the 19th century literature, the governess was mostly silenced, being a simple female character. On the contrary, in Neo-victorian literature, she was given voice and was no longer only a character in the background. Having a poor social condition, the governesses in the Victorian age were known to have been exemplary women: modest, diligent, with good reputation. In the house where they worked, they would have a place somewhere between a member of the family and a servant.…

Extreme fascination, passion, lust and beauty can be tempting, but admitting to them was a struggle facing people in 19th century or Victorian Era and this is evident in the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” When Oscar Wilde wrote, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, he was critiquing a cultural moment in time. He was attempting to make his Victorian audience think about their inability to admit to their true desires and fear of temptation. A British journalist by the name W. T. Stead committed the…

During the nineteenth century, the marginalization of women can be seen throughout society. Society was highly regulated by rules and women faced inequality in rights and in their treatment from society. The Awakening by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman focused on the control husbands had on their wives, due to the hierarchal position in society. These stories take place right around the same time period, involving female protagonists who are at the mercy of their society…

focus on the different social classes, the industrial revolution, and women´s issues in the 18th-19th century in England. The movies and novels I will use as to write this essay are Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and David Copperfield. In the Victorian era Britain was a class-ridden society. The classes were a part of the British way of life. The British society was divided into three main groups; The upper class, the middle class and the lower or working class. The upper classes were really…

CONCLUSION As a result of this study we have come into the following conclusion: Prevailing over English literature for mainly 34 years (1798-1832), Romanticism proved itself as one of the most ingenious, extreme and instable of all ages, a time characterized by insurrection, conservatism and reformation in politics, and by the creation of imaginative literature in its characteristically contemporary structure. It came to be a period when principles and ideals were in union, when radicalism and…

A similar situation also appears in Bell’s later interior scenes. While the artist returned to a more figurative style in 1916, her later interior works demonstrate a composition that is neither specifically figurative nor purely abstract. Two later works by Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, 1930 (Fig. 52) and Interior with the Artists Daughter, 1935-6 (Fig. 53), suggest the artist’s ongoing interest in decorative design and abstraction. Both works depict Bell’s living space: her London studio at Fitzroy…