Victorian literature

Wilde does such a task by portraying the character’s to represent something other than themselves. Furthermore, the author, Oscar Wilde is mocking and making fun of gender roles in The Importance of Being Earnest, by critiquing the period of the Victorian era and how these roles were portrayed during this time that the play was written in. One such figure that Wilde uses is Lady Bracknell, making her an authority figure throughout the play by the tasks she does, thus portraying the flipping of…

Within the writings of Charles Dickens, the author brought to life the plight of children and the poor in England during the Industrial Revolution. Unmentioned in our textbook, Dickens revealed to the public the atrocious working conditions which were prevalent in the workhouses that drove the economy in what was the most technologically advanced society in the world. In this essay, three books will be used as examples of Dickens' experiences that he would draw upon to create his…

During the Victorian era 1837 to 1901, Queen Victoria, ruler of England, had a huge influence of Victorian fashion. Queen Victoria was often very straight forward in her demands on how women should dress. Victoria would use her Lord Chamberlain, a counselor to the throne, to distribute her style commands in the "Court Journal", a gossip article, describing what was going on in British Royalty. To be considered a lady in Victorians time, people would have to strictly follow a code of manners,…

Oscar Wilde ridicules Victorian aristocracy’s gluttony and self-indulgence by using hunger as a euphemism for desire. Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest stands as a parody of society, morals, and marriage during Queen Victoria’s reign. Conflict arises in the scenes of the play that feature food, such as: the stolen bottle of wine, Algernon devouring sandwiches meant for his aunt, Jack and Gwendolen’s bread and butter, and the muffins. Algernon bewilders Jack by eating muffins during a time…

Some people see life as a escapade, other people see it as something they just hope to get through. During the Victorian era was an utmost period of social prejudice, industrialisation that brought fast changes into everyday life that affected social classes. Life during this period depended on your social class and where you lived. Life was so controlled during this era that people were custme to this norm that majority of the people did not question their norms, except there were people who…

Rocks in my Head review Rocks in my Head is a play performed by three grade nine students and two adults. The Director of the play is Sue Lawson, a highly ranked Writer and Director who has received plenty of awards for Writing for young adults. The company Markwell Presents created the play. Markwell Presents is based in Bulimba Brisbane. Rocks in my head tackles important issues faced by teenagers teaching how to deal with death and relationships. The play was directed to inflict emotion on…

The final time period is the Modern or Contemporary Era, which to some began right after Queen Victoria died in 1901, right before the start of the First World War, but Most view the beginning of Modernism as the start of World War I. A major characteristic of the Modern Era is revolution and chaos. Key players of the Modern Era are W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Earnest Hemingway. Love in the Modern Era was expressed through history and mythology much like…

The Orient, according to Said, is always considered to be inferior and objectionable to the occident. Throughout the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte displays a typical anglocentric assumptions about non British. Bronte is a considered a colonial author because not only is she is British, but by the end of the 19th century, her nation controlled almost two thirds of the entire world. From her biography, it is not actually depicted whether she ever left the confines of the European continent and…

a piece of writing is more vital to its success than the skill of the author. This view is reflected in Victorian society where ingrained aestheticism was simply used as a facade to hide the truth, however, Wilde is actually making a deep societal criticism of this. Paradoxically, as an author he has a prerequisite to please his audience, in this case by demonstrating the triviality of Victorian society and the overvaluing of appearance within it, although this is partially concealed by a thin…

specified, but likely produced in Victorian era because the couple wear Victorian clothing, therefore will reflect Victorian values and concepts. The man in Source A is clearly distressed because he may have read bad news, the woman is fulfilling her role in life by comforting her husband; she is fulfilling her role in the Victorian period. Judging by the rest of the picture we have a beautifully dressed woman and a well-kept home, which was stereotypical of Victorian society. Overall, the…