Victorian America

ended many elite movements and eras, but also created many more which helped us identify ourselves as America. The three crucial turning point years in the Gilded Age include 1876, 1893, and 1896. 1893 being the most eminent do to its Great Depression economical issues. These various years are one of the cause on why we know America for what it is today. In general, the Gilded Age was time in America as the word “Gilded” suggests, gold and rich on the outside, but dreadful in the…

the Bennets. The Bennets were not poor, but they were not wealthy and stood in a position to lose their home to a relative, Mr. Collins. Society is organized according to where one falls on the social ladder. The three major social classes in the Victorian Era are: upper, middle and lower. These classes constantly changed, and the lower classes always tried to climb the social ladder. Climbing the social ladder was not an easy thing to do. The barriers between the classes were distinctive. In…

apocryphal sense of elation within their money. While, the content, jovial lower class prosper through their affectionate relationships they have with family and friends. In the novel, Great Expectations, the author Charles Dickens comments about Victorian London by showing how both personal and historical events affect the traits of the characters and the plot, the differences of conduct…

Ally Condie's Matched is a novel with the focus on Cassia Reyes, a young girl who lives in a futuristic world governed by a faction entitled The Society. The plot opens with seventeen-year-olds from across the nation, including the protagonist Cassia, traveling to City hall in order to be matched. Matching is a process in which individuals are paired with their future spouse based on predictions made by the Society to ensure a perfect marriage and healthy offspring. However, Cassia discovers…

knew that he had been lying all along, until when he discovered that his father went by the same name. Wilde explains how double standard Earnst’s life and also shows how it is written out by his expectations and goals. The name ‘Earnest’ in the Victorian era of England, is known is very well known and a person bearing such a name was considered to be outstanding, and well mannered. From a psychological point of view, Earnest seeks to survive. As such a person who needs to survive, he…

Furthermore, Oscar Wilde projects himself in addition to the Id, Ego, and Superego through Dorian Gray, based on how Wilde lived a “Double Life”(Schmidt 3). Dorian was thought to be pure and innocent when really his inner self reflected the complete opposite. Dorian “desperately wanted to find his true identity”(Schmidt 4) and longed to be known for more than just his appearance. Dorian’s desperation resulted in an unhealthy intrigue with Henry Wotton. Henry’s fascination with Dorian resulted…

a married woman who seeks her own happiness of individuality and her desires in a Victorian society. As a result, Edna tries to make changes in her life, such as abandoning her responsibilities as a mother and relocating into her own home. However, Edna is soon aware that change is not pleasant. Feeling impossibility and hopelessness, Edna chooses to die as an ultimate escape from the restrictions of the Victorian society she lives in. Edna’s journey to her awakening was challenged by conformity…

extensive work hours as well as how they are repetitively being undermined by their boss and their coworkers. Little did they know that in the Victorian Era both adults and children had it far worse than your parents could imagine. Textile factories were bad for English workers because they were dangerous and the workers were abused. Factories in the Victorian Era were unsanitary and held highly dangerous machinery that workers were subjected to use on a daily basis. Dr. Ward, a doctor who…

at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England, filed under no. T. 113-1964. It is from the 19th century to early 20th century, around the 1800s, and is made for a woman. It is a deep purple color, and is made of satin. It is a dress of the Victorian age, one of the many styles that went in and out of fad during that time. This particular dress was a style going on during 1860s-1890, at the beginning of the time the fullness of the very large crinoline, a stiffened petticoat or rigid…

Individuality in The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest takes place in the Victorian Era in Europe, showcasing the strict societal rules and the pressure they cause to attempt to remove individuality from the society by having characters follow the proper upper class stereotypes (being rude to lower class, choosing marriages for money, etc.) By showing the upper class standards and stereotypical snobby behavior through multiple characters, Wilde highlights…