The Golden Era

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…

. . . 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…

Literary masterpiece Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë creates the perfect novel to review from a social and economic position. Starting poor and dependent on the none-so-kind Reed family for food and shelter, Jane Eyre progresses in both social status and economic wealth through her time at Lowood, into Thornfield, past Moor House and the economic prosperity that it brings, and finally into happiness she finds back at the crippled Mr. Rochester. Throughout the novel, Brontë expresses a number of…

because of its high morals and ethics, as well as its social customs. Men and women had difficult responsibilities that were expected to be carried out. The duties held liable for depended on the class the women and men belonged to. In the Victorian Era, the roles between men and women were sharply defined, in favor in men. Throughout this time period, men were superior to women. According to an article by Yildirim, “Victorian Britain, with its rigid gender roles, was a strictly patriarchal…

poverty.” Prudish and narrow-minded are excellent terms that describe how the people from the Victorian era are portrayed. The Victorian era was a time when the legs of a table had to be concealed under cloth so that it was not suggestive in any way. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was a prominent author in the Victorian era. By the age of forty-one, Tennyson became the most popular poet of the Victorian era. “The Lady of Shalott” is a famous poem written by Tennyson that expresses a great deal of…

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…

The experience of gender plays a significant role in each human life. Gender can be extremely liberating, granting one a comfortable label through which to identify oneself. It can also be an unbearable burden given by society, laced with a set of predetermined characteristics and stereotypes. Although different societies throughout the ages have given and assigned such burdens to members of both genders, women have arguably been hit the hardest by societal expectations based on gender. One of…

time and attempts to provide an explanation as to what the inhabitants of the time deemed important. The span of the century that “Household Gods” covers is known as a time when religion was at its plateau in the eyes of scholars who canvassed the era. Cohen’s biggest argument is…

Queen Victoria is most interesting to me because of her successful reign during the Victorian Era, everything she accomplished in Britain, and the unique life she lived compared to most other monarchs. I consider Queen Victoria’s reign during the Victorian Era very successful, because she became one of the longest-reigning monarchs of the British Empire. This was most likely because she was crowned at such a young age compared to most of the other monarchs. Victoria accomplished a lot for her…

Introduction: The Victorian Period begun in 1837 the year Victoria became queen, and ended in 1901 when she dies. This period was the great age of the English novel with realism, thick plots, crowded with characters, and very long. Formerly, it was the ideal form to describe life and to entertain the middle class. However, some of the writers that were very recognized were Charles Dickens, full of drama, humor, and a variety of characters, complicated plots, and a portrayal of how urban life…