Victorian era

Charles Kingsley created the novel under the influence of the social disturbance in the Victorian Britain. Although intended for children, the novel was coming out periodically in the Macmillan’s Magazine for adults and deeply affected many public matters, left the readers contemplative and become the base for social changes (Uffeleman & Scott, 1986). There is an evidence of Alexander Macmillan’s words “from your description of the story I think it will suit us admirably and form a new and…

This letter has a narrative and historical-circunstancial nature, since it is related with a concrete historical moment or circumstance in which the author was immersed. The letter was written on 17 December 1846, but it was published in The London Times newspaper a few days after, on Christmas Eve. We must situate this text in the period of The Great Famine, The Great Hunger, or The Irish Potato Famine. It was the worst famine in Europe of the 19th century, suffered in Ireland between 1845 and…

Charles Dickens was the most famous writer in the 19th century. One of his most famous writings is “A Christmas Carol”, this was about a mysterious old man named Ebenezer Scrooge. Over the years his writing got more and more popular. It got turned into novels, stories, graphics, and movies. “A Christmas Carol” and “Christmas Carol 2009” is different and alike in many ways. One way they are different by “A Christmas Carol” is a passage that he wrote, and it is the original thing, “Christmas…

André Charles Boulle had created one of the most extraordinary and exquisite pieces of furniture of the baroque era (Figure 1). It was an accumulation of uncommon patterns that were exaggerated with inlays constructed of merged materials such as tortoise shells, metals and ebony designs that relinquished the grace of the ingenious imaginative conceptions of the craftsman. French Baroque required a great deal of vigilant artistry and workmanship; this affected the history of furniture making and…

In the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, “If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.” It has been proven time and time again that humans are social creatures at heart; without meaningful connections to others, they will wither and perish. Despite this, many are unable to forge such connections, and instead place boundaries around themselves, like many characters do in…

Judy Chicago was born in 1939 and is an artist feminist and educator whose career now spans five decades. Between 1974 and 1979 Chicago, with the help of hundreds of volunteers, worked on one of her most recognizable pieces, The Dinner Party which is widely recognized as an icon of feminist art and has been permanently housed at the Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. This colossal work of art is a substantial ceremonial banquet in the shape of an open triangle, a shape symbolic of…

London’s Victorian burlesque featured in the 1830s and 40s blended the use of humor and the female body to entertain their audiences. It showed cladly dressed women dancing to songs rewritten with a comedic twist while revealing what was underneath their clothes and flirted with the audience. ‘it involved transgressive comedy and songs, but the primary attraction of burlesque was sex . . in the form of ribald humor and immodestly dressed women.’ (Kenrick, n.d.). Burlesque performers sort to pick…

poets alike by Brayden Smith. The Romantic era was a period during the mid-18th century where great economic and social change occurred and brought to the forefront of the public's opinion, prompting immediate pressure. It was evident that social rules and refinement were often to blame for the corruption of the human spirt and poets took full advantage of this by conveying their opinions to the spotlight in the form of literature. The Romantic era gave poets permission to express their…

Within Victorian England, there existed a particular perspective surrounding the image of women, and ultimately, this molded the expectation of their roles within society. In Ian Wards book, Sex, Crime, and Literature in Victorian England, the author addresses four main areas of concern surrounding England. Within the text, Ward incorporates a significant amount of literature from the time period in order to better reflect the conditions of the country, and its people. Of these four areas of…

A Tale of Two Cities “Kid Who Die”, by Langston Hughes explores the effects of indifference on the lives of children, who are unable to escape the confines of society. In “Kids Who Die”, the concept of forced division is echoed through Charles Dickens’, A Tale of Two Cities. The struggles of the French peasants before the Revolution mirrors a majority of the obstacles faced by the youth of the early twentieth century. One major struggle faced by the victims within both works is the unfair…