Victorian architecture

The Victorian Era was the duration of Queen Victoria’s reign which spanned from 1837 till 1901. The Victorian Era not only had a big impact on England but the entire world. It held beliefs that placed large emphasis on rigid aristocratic systems and proper behavior. The Fall of the House of Usher points out…

aristocrats. By doing the previously mentioned, Dickens is setting the tone of his book as a discussion of social disruption. He is then able to create a dramatic scene using highly expressive effects in order to capture the emotions of this scenario.The Victorian Era encouraged novelists to write on the status of the inherently inferior lower class. As a result, Dickens demonstrates this in A Tale of Two Cities throughout the…

Women during the Victorian era had very few career opportunities, seeing as it was the men that were supposed to work. It was the lower and lower middle classes women were expected to work, because that was what everyone in the lower and lower middle classes had to do in order to “live.” It is clear that factory workers during the Victorian era were not treated well, because they were not seen as worthy of having those rights of the upper classes. These factory workers were treated as well as…

Victorian Satire in Oscar Wilde’s ”The Importance of Being Earnest.” Victorian era ideals are littered throughout Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Whether it be the act of bunburying, the prominence behind one’s name, or the suitability of someone in another’s hand in marriage, all are visited in this play in some form or another. Points of importance to Victorian culture are found quite trivial within the lines of this work published near the end of the same era, especially…

How has women’s clothes represented their role in the Victorian society? While contemporary weddings are often a symbol of love and commitment between the bride and the groom, for the history of the past, love actually played a very minor role in the majority of matrimonies that took place. In the Victorian era, marriage was not as romanticized or fairy tale-like as depicted in many novels of the time, it were seen as two families joining together forming a business deal in a beneficial…

women; her writing illustrates the limits and restrictions placed upon them in Victorian culture. These limitations are highlighted not in the trapped and conventional narrative of Mrs. Ramsay, but rather in the struggle for autonomy that Lily and Mrs. Ramsay’s unmarried daughters experience. They act as signs of optimism in the patriarchal world they exist in. Woolf criticizes the expectations for women in the Victorian era through the characterization of Lily Briscoe, the daughters’ rejection…

Treatment of Women in “Othello” and “Trifles” Throughout history the handling of women has evolved. From the Victorian Era to the latter half of the nineteenth century many authors have championed the unfair treatment of women in books, poetry, short stories, and plays; however two authors have penned works worthy of comparison. In “Othello,” a maiden marries for love; however she is ultimately the fatal victim of her love. On the other hand, in the play “Trifles,” the downtrodden Minnie murders…

became a product primarily consumed by women. (Gitelman). Not only were women in the right place physically to be the phonograph’s most important consumers, but they also were in the right place mentally. Women were meant to be listeners in the Victorian Era. They were “vessels of culture and models of self-cultivation,” and not meant to speak. Rather, they to be seen. (Naeem 461, Katz…

accomplishments; although as one of the Middlemarch older women noted in a direct challenge to the concept of Angelic domestic ideology, ‘what was the use of accomplishments which would all be laid aside as soon as she was married? (Eliot 157)’. The Victorian lady may have been equipped to look angelic but she was ill-equipped to deal with her required role of motherhood and manager of the household. Neither Dr Ludgate nor Rosamond are equipped to manage their household and they quickly descend…

How does Charles Dickens explore Pip's state of mind ? William Priddy, 1ere ES1 'Great Expectations', by Charles Dickens, presents Pip's constant moral evolution. This particular extract reflects Pip's state of mind in his adolescence, following the year he spent visiting Miss Havisham. These encounters have presented to him an alternate lifestyle that he would not have been aware of otherwise. He begins to reflect on his own life and sees himself as inferior to Estella and her education.…