Victorian America

lost alongside Persia. Though the story of Antigone was known in Hellas, Sophocles used it as a piece of propaganda, setting the story of a monarchic polis against the democratic city-state of Athens, demonstrating not only the might of a democratic government, but the failures of Thebes. Moving to the nineteenth century, the play becomes more academic to some. In Victorian America, Antigone is firstly read as a means to acquire more knowledge about democratic Athens in the hopes for America to acquire the…

to their obsession with class. Victorian upper class demands its members to keep up an important image in society and value money and appearance above all else, including people. Wilde satirizes the motivations of these characters and uses their values to question the ideals of the upper class members in a Victorian society. Serious things such as marriage and love are made trivial, and trivial things such as names and food are made serious. This switch reduces the characters to an absurdity…

“Win the Fiery Antidote”: a Feminist Approach to Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market In a time when women did not have major roles in literature or their daily lives, Christina Rossetti’s powerful poem Goblin Market is published to empower women of the Victorian Era. This poem is about two sisters, Lizzie and Laura, who live alone in the middle of the woods. They go into the woods every day to get water from the river, where they encounter goblin men selling fruits. After Laura tries…

Brocklehurst evangelical teachings and dislikes how he avoids giving the students at Lowood earthly pleasures; she sees two types of Christianity, an extreme type from Mr. Brocklehurst and a form of Christianity that stresses tolerance and acceptance from Helen. Helen uses religion to strengthen her as a person however Mr. Brocklehurst uses religion to gain control. Jane uses the teachings of Helens perception of Christianity to tolerate the conditions at Lowood and encourages her to think about…

feels for her lover Bendrix. Her love for Henry is old news to her. Although, Henry still loves Sarah their relationship is shattered because of the love she possesses for Bendrix. There, however lies a problem with adultery. The women of Sarah’s time were focused on social equality, women’s rights and changing their roles in society. Sarah displayed something different. The book The End of the Affair, was written during the Modern Era, but throughout we see how Victorian ideas are incorporated…

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 isolation. In Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s lonely “The Lady of Shalott,” Tennyson uses the…

variety on headdresses and hairstyles in the Victorian period. Women of the Victorian period enjoyed gardening. These women needed a headdress that would cover their face while in the garden, so they wore bonnets. Keeping sun out of their face was not the only use for bonnets. The Victorian time period was a time of lavish parties. With their parties had to come lavish headdresses and hairstyles. The hairstyles changed rapidly throughout the Victorian period. The styles of hair would change from…

Great Britain had established colonies in India and Canada and the Americas.…

This historical study will define the urban development of the New Woman and the feminist ideology of the American Bohemian Movement in late 19th century Victorian culture. The urban space provided women with a new way to countermand the patriarchal values of Victorian culture, which had severely limited the rights and social place of women in society. The New Woman of the 1890s was the result of the increasing presence of European Bohemianism, which had been developing in the U.S. since the mid…

Representations of Americans in Grant Allen’s “The Great Ruby Robbery: A Detective Story” Tales of the American West were highly popular in Victorian England. William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody’s Wild West Show was a particular hit with English audiences when it arrived in England in 1887: “From foreign dignitaries to Queen Victoria herself, Cody pulled in audiences from every station of Victorian society and presented them with his vision of heroic, indelible Americanism” (Robinson 1). Novels,…