Victorian literature

In the novel, The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde, Wilde criticizes many aspects of the Victorian lifestyle. The constant criticism in the comedy is present through constant witty remarks and absurdity throughout the play. One aspect of the Victorian lifestyle that Wilde refers to frequently is writing and writers. Wilde conveys the message by using diaries and three volume novels frequently throughout the play that those individuals have dreams and secrets that they find dear to them,…

beginning of time. However, with the advent of the Neoclassical age in 1600’s Britain, the societal virtues of balance, harmony, order, and reason began to receive much more emphasis. The sentiment permeated every area of life, especially concerning literature. Mary Leapor, an English poet and maid working in the 1700’s, exemplifies this new focus and threads many of these elements in her poetry to elevate it to the levels of the ancient classics; something audiences craved. Her work, An Essay…

This essay discusses the importance of interiority in relation to the Victorian era. During the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 – 1901, many years after the Industrial Revolution, came major economic developments throughout Britain which had impacts on interior decoration in Victorian homes. The nineteenth century saw a huge growth in the population of Great Britain which had major changes such as the expansion of middle-class families which lead to increased demand for goods and services…

Portsmouth in England and died 9th june 1870. He was a british writer and social critic such as a regarded as of the greatest English-language and burrow most prominent novelist. Charles created some of the most famous fictional characters in the victorian era. His father John Dickens was a bookkeeper in the harbor office, they moved to london when 10 years old. Since his father had financial difficulties the family became poor and His father, who had a difficult time managing money and was…

Introduction This paper is an attempt in tracing the change in Chekhov's art of characterization from 1886 to 1902 through his farce- vaudeville monodrama in one act, On the Injurious Effects of Tobacco. Chekhov wrote the first version of the play in 1886 and revised it multiple ties in the subsequent years. The final version of the monodrama is the most popular and well-known of all the published versions. The paper will also take into account the other nine one- act plays Chekhov wrote in…

Critically analyze the role of Third Druk Gyelpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck in the process of decentralization. Bhutan had been in the isolation for about forty years until Bhutan became a hereditary monarchy in 1907. The earlier first and second kings were fully engaged in preparing stability of the country. When the Third king Jigme Dorji Wangchuck succeeded the throne, the situation of Bhutan drastically changed. The way towards democratization was started with the establishment of the National…

during Economic Prosperity and Religious Controversy. Unlike other novels where the theme is revolved around love, romance and fairy-tale with grand mythical creatures. Dickens was writing about the social experience of the first generation of the Victorian age he outlines social injustice, child poverty and lack of education. Great Expectation is a bildungsroman where Dickens writes about the life of pip from an infant age to adulthood. when the readers first meet Pip they instantly realise…

In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens presented many of the main characters as strong, educated, women who ended up holding the plotline together. These women provided life lessons and a true representation of how life was during France’s Revolutionary times. In this book, the women who made the most significant impressions are Lucie Manette, Madame Defarge, and the seamstress executed near the end of the book. Lucie Manette was a kind-hearted, breathtakingly beautiful woman who…

With this sense of superiority and right to lead as ordained by nature and God upon the British people, Victorian writers produced literary texts and essays promoting it. Scholars like Mathew Arnold, Benjamin Disraeli, Sarah Austin were at the front-burner of eulogizing the Englishness and the British race superiority. Arnold, in his Common Place book according to Evans Richard, states that the British "are the best breed in the world … The absence of a too enervating climate, too unclouded…

"A Doll's House is the first full-blown example of Ibsen's modernism." While looking at the unreconciled ending of A Doll's House, which sets Nora's need to be first and foremost a human being against her roles as doll or as wife and mother, and offends society's need for faith in the idea of the divine and the beautiful to survive". The celebration and self-fulfillment of women was atypical for this time Promotion of equal rights and liberties I would like to look at this play from the…