The New Era

Characters like Monsieur Defarge, the group of Jaques, the revolutionaries, and The Vengeance make Mme. Defarge cruel and ruthless. Her allies are wild, savage, and bloodthirsty, Madame Defarge doesn’t mind their actions, and if anything she builds her new character off of them. They are fuel to the fire, and their actions show her that she can be a cold killer. These people only share a few similarities, most revolving around the desire to enact revenge and corrupt justice. Consequently, this…

Nick Melvin Book Review 5 4/11/17 The Search for Order: 1877-1920 Wiebe, Robert H. The Search for Order:1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. Robert Wiebe’s book, The Search for Order: 1877-1920, explains the economic influences linked with industrialization and urbanization in the latter part of the nineteenth century that were significant and interconnected separating the autonomy of the former ways of American life and restored with a more bureaucratic type of administration.…

Revolution in England, where women received pay compared to their male counterparts solely based on gender. The rulers at the time, during the Victorian Era, did nothing to prevent these issues, which is why today they still persist. In the view of the author of Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, there were many more problems with the Victorian Era in England. One of the problems was many people had “expectations” at the time, and to expose this issue, Dickens wrote a novel about a young boy,…

The excerpt chosen from Hard Times by Charles Dickens is about a speaker sharing his view of an educational system that runs solely on teaching facts to students. Since the speaker is sharing his view with the schoolmaster and a third grown person, he speaks in a formal language. However, his formality and character makes him the target of the satirical passage as shown in the second paragraph of the excerpt where the narrator provides a description of the speaker. By referring to the speaker’s…

Victorian Era England was a time of major change in Western culture and was a bustling hub for technology and advancements in the way human beings thought about the world around them. Though Victorian England was a time of prosperity and overall success for England it was also a time of classism and useless prejudice. Today in my essay I will delve into the classism of the era and how it affected the people of England. I will also assess whether or not the classism still effects people…

In Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre, Bronte uses bird imagery that parallels Jane’s journey as she becomes a woman. The birds symbolize how Jane is trapped, like a caged bird, in the beginning and then develops into a mature young woman who has the strength to ‘set off on her own’. In the end of the novel, Jane returns to Mr. Rochester to start a family, much like birds return to their nest. Through the use of bird imagery such as doves, Bronte allows the readers to gain insight into who Jane…

The progressive era was a period of progressivists making an attempt to mend society by addressing the social and political difficulties caused by speedy industrial development and urban growth during the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was a time of a corrupt government and abusive of workers including child labor. These aspects of the government continued long enough that the attempt to fix them lead to the Progressive Era. The Progressive Era was a time to fix the Gilded Age’s problems. The Gilded…

The gilded age was a time of corruption, monopolies, worker abuse and much more in the 1870’s. Because of this the economy was harsh. The Progressive reforms was America’s attempt to correct and fix the economy due to the gilded age. At first progressivism was a social movement, it then later became a political movement. People who believed in progressivism believed that if the people had a better education, safer work environments and the abolishment of corruption which they fixed by…

In The Importance Of Being Earnest, the play by Oscar Wilde, he brings out serious issues through humor and slapstick style of comedy. The cucumber sandwiches scene really brings out the slapstick style of the play. In the play when Jack was eating the cucumber sandwiches and his buddy was trying to get some, he said it was improper to eat the sandwiches. When his buddy asked him why it was okay for Jack to eat the sandwiches he replied with “Well she’s my aunt”. Which is actually ironic…

Lady Audley is a splendid example of what a true Victorian lady should act like.Lucy was more than just a lady though. Braddon describes her almost as an angel, using sunlight as the tool. She was loved, praised and admired by everyone (Braddon 47).Her fair face is described in the text as shining like a sunbeam. The emphasis on light is shone here and Braddon also makes her sound heavenly and delightful on page 49 when he describes the soft golden curls as making a halo around her face when the…