Victorian America

Henrik Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ went into production in December 1879 and was a triumph in Scandinavia and Germany. It did not garner the same praise in Europe as the London productions (1889) were criticised, the subject matter was interpreted as offensive and the representation of women was viewed as harmful (Worrall). This final interaction between Nora and Torvald is crucial as it is the powerful denouement. The analysis of this scene will encompass discussions of the elements of…

The famed twentieth century author Virginia Woolf, wrote nearly fifthteen works that have shaped the evolution of the twenty-first century. The attention to mental illness and social hierarchy that Woolf addresses within her 1925 literary classic Mrs. Dalloway, can be seen as an influential factor in addressing and later resolving these issues within social culture. Woolf emphasizes the theme of repression by addressing the stereotypical British roles of women and the lack of mental health…

potential and social confinement at the lengths of her family. Pete is evidently not much better than the people in Maggie’s community, after all, Pete is a bartender. The circumstances Maggie falls victim too are historically accurate for 19th century America and serves as actual inspiration to Crane, promoting his work as naturalism. Historically, it was very realistic for women to become prostitutes as well as escorts due to the legality of the acts. According to Elizabeth Garner Masarik’s…

Each century defines its own standards of how people in a relationship should treat one another. In the theory of cultural studies, people often look at the differences in how relationships were maintained and handled according to the current day and age. The play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen clearly illustrates how relationships were in the eighteen hundreds. He plainly articulates that, during those times, a man was the head of the household and a woman was only good for complying with all…

Henrik Ibsen’s, A Doll’s House, explores common situations that women faced in the Victorian Era. Ibsen wrote and established his play in the Victorian time of history, when women struggled against the world which viewed females as inferior to men and limited as to what they can do. Males were dominating and highly respected during this era. On the contrary, females were expected to put men on a pedestal and had no other option but to live up to societal expectations to men. Three female…

The intriguing and malevolent plot of the play The Monkey’s Paw has many twists and turns. At the beginning it goes from a jovial mood to a solemn and disheartening environment. The many props onstage greatly established that the play was set in the late 1800’s, when Britain colonized India. This includes the fireplace, where the Sergeant Major’s wife tries to burn the paw. The wood stove used was clearly of an older model, which would have been relevant in the late 1800’s. This and many…

Part 1 Ideology – In Victorian Studies, ideology is referred to as the extent to which what may look articulate and complete in review was actually fissured by opposing emphases and interests. The Victorian ideology is related with middle-class ideology, which is challenged and under construction as it was always in the making, open to reconstruction, disagreement and the emergence of oppositional inventions. Class – Class emerges from the Victorian ideals of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.…

manners, the entertainment form that satirizes the manners of a social class, in Wilde’s case, the high upper class, as previously mentioned. “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a great example of this, as Wilde in this play, repeatedly mocks Victorian traditions, such as the pursuit of love, which we see in both Gwendolen and Cecily, who both have put their faith in the Christian name of Earnest, quite unlike the mother of Gwendolen; Lady Bracknell who is much more methodical and analytical…

about the Regency Era and Victorian period, two different periods in different centuries.. I´m going to discuss the subjects women issues and social classes that were in these two periods in Great Britain. To strengthen my examples, I´m going to use two versions of the Mansfield Park series and the the novel Persuasion written by Jane Austen. The British time periods We can divide British time into smaller time periods, for instance Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Georgian and Victorian. Within the…

Composer's use their distinctive voices to explore their ideas about humanity, revealing the unvarnished truths of idealism and change. In Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, considered ground-breaking for its distinctive use of Australian colloquial language and idiom, along with its unique depiction of Australian working class characters and experiences, highlights the dangers of excessive idealism and the failure to accept change and the rigors of time. While Omar Musa’s “Capital…