Victorian architecture

Design Brief: History of London Bridge Station – 500 London Bridge Station is one of the busiest stations in London and it is always changing. The first station was opened on 14 December 1836 at Tooley Street, which is currently the first and oldest station in London. It was opened by the London and Greenwich Railway (LGR). To make money they decided to lease its line and terminus to other railway companies from the south east that wanted access to London. The London and Croydon Railway…

Gender roles have historically been fairly standard, men provide for their family and the women are simply their husband’s property. Many old-time plays and stories embrace this simple concept, men over women. However, Euripides’ Medea shatters the concept of gender roles by having a woman, Medea, triumph over a man’s tyranny. Euripides description of Medea is that of a clever sorceress who will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. At the beginning of the story, Medea is depicted as a woman…

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy M. Montgomery Critical Analysis Theme: The Conflict between Imagination and Social Expectations Anne of Green Gables was written by a Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomary in 1908. It was the most famous novel of its time. It was considered as a children novel in twentieth century. It describes the adventurous story of a 11 year old orphan girl who is by mistake sent to on an Island where a brother and a sister are going to adopt her and want her to work with…

They say money that does not keep a person warm at night. Though it can buy a feathered quilt. The Talented Mr. Ripley, an ironic detective novel by Patricia Highsmith is a prefect representation of a text which undermines the 1950’s way of life. The author subverts everything from sexuality to social class to the ignorance of the judiciary system, all while having the readers sympathize with a pathological murderer and even though religion may not be central theme the author writes with each of…

The Yellow Wallpaper 1. A rationally vexed young lady, perhaps named Jane, recounts the story. As the fundamental character's anecdotal diary, the story is told in strict first-individual portrayal, concentrating only alone contemplations, emotions, and discernments. The story is extremely strict on this first individual perspective. The storyteller is an exceedingly innovative and a characteristic storyteller, however her specialists trust she has a "slight hysterical tendency." As the story…

First of all I concentrate on formal element of Great Expectation, putting a question: how far does Dickens want us to be conscious that a novel is what we are reading? It can be answered in a way is, it depends on the specific episode. Dickens’s novel brings the conventions of nineteenth century in ‘realism’ through a fiction that is nevertheless sufficient like the real worlds to convince us that it is. To forget that realism is a particular fictional technique to ignore the pre-eminent role…

The Victorian Period, the most important time in British history. This Period started with Queen Victoria’s rise to power in 1837 and ended with her death in 1901, thus ending the Victorian Period. Through this era, many changes occurred, from scientific improvements to population growth. Even though it started with many problems many of them were already improved by the end of the Victorian Period. For starters, one of the biggest improvements was the steam engine, which even though it was…

young girl who doesn’t know what she wants as she travels from her home to Italy through symbolism, imagery, and metaphors to develop the theme of changing times and social classes. This novel occurs in a time where people began to transition from a Victorian style of thinking to a Edwardian style. Women’s suffrage was becoming more prominent and the world was seen as more open minded than before. People could finally chose for themselves and live the life they wanted which is depicted…

The Awakening Topic #2 LAP Abid Ahmad Winter Jasmine flowers that endure the harsh cold in beauty and elegance; This is the embodiment of women in society, whether it be today or one hundred years ago. When Kate Chopin wrote of the woes of Edna Pontellier in her novel The Awakening, no one could have expected just how much our society had shifted since the release of her ground-breaking publication. The book entails the barriers that had controlled women back in the late 1800s. Although…

Coming from the rise of a new era of the middle working class in 1875, arrived a new ideology who found its way into the modern production of the arts. Henrik Ibsen, as referred to as the father of modern realism, coined this idea of establishing realistic values of human nature in plays, allowing its audience to see and reflect on real "everyday lives" they themselves part take in. One of the most famous plays of Henrik Ibsen's modern realistic ideology was "A Doll House." Henrik Ibsen's play…