Victorian literature

The present research paper deals with Sheridan famous comedy “The School for Scandal” as a comedy of manners or a typical Restoration comedy. The comedy of manners is a phrase often used in literary history and eroticism. It is particularly applied to the Restoration dramatists in England, and especially to Congreve and Wycherley; but it is a type of comedy which can flourish in any civilized urban society, and we see it again in Sheridan (1751-1816). This kind of comedy makes fun not so much of…

Victorian society was characterized by the strict norms imposed upon its populace. All were expected to adhere to their designated societal role – men the workers, women the caregivers. In A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen probes the problems of the roles assigned to women in a male-oriented society. For women, their sharply defined roles did not allow for individuality, forcing them to sacrifice their identity in order to fit into society. A Doll’s House assess the dichotomy between who women are…

Known as the ‘Russian Byron’, Mikhail Lermontov is revered for his radical interpretation of the Romantic antihero in A Hero of Our Time. He sought to fashion “a portrait built up from the vices of our whole generation” (Lermontov, preface), to create a character who would embody the spirit of the contemporary Russian man. In what would be his only prose work, Lermontov employs traits commonly associated with the Byronic hero as the basis for the character of his protagonist, Pechorin, such as…

“A Room of One's Own” by Virginia Woolf is a breakthrough of twentieth-century feminism. It displays the history of women in literature through a series of analysis in which Woolf stresses that social and material necessities are vital in order for women to survive in the world dominated by the patriarchal. As a modernist writer, Woolf in her essay innovatively depicts an account of a woman’s thinking about the history of women. Woolf’s narrative process of using fictitious character heightens…

significantly heightened. These two eras form much of what today inadequately called the traditional roles of women. As antiquities archaeologist robin lane for says, while literature cannot stand in lien of archaeological evidence, it must be considered seriously as it must have true later in the society. So literature can give guidelines to the roles of women were more in remote areas. Since, biblical times women have been running private business. Managing large sections of domestic’s…

This novel challenges the modern standards of beauty and their inherent racism. This is a novel by Toni Morrison. The story rotates around Pecola. Pecola is a young girl from black the background. Author begins by mentioning the fact that Pecola ails from a dysfunctional family unit. A drunkard father and constant fights between the parents was the order of the day in her life. She is suffering from inferiority complex (Morrison 32). She believes that she is not very pretty and this could be…

For countless people, fear has a major impact on people’s actions, decisions, and lives. In Daniel Defoe's adventurous novel Robinson Crusoe, the theme of fear of the human condition is relevant as shown through the narrator's vigorous journey. Daniel Defoe was an English author from the late 1600s to early 1700s, and he published the novel, Robinson Crusoe, incorporating themes such as fear about the human condition. The theme is prevalent through the protagonist, Robinson Crusoe and he is…

English Commentary: Points of View by Lucinda Roy The poem “Points of View” by Lucinda Roy juxtapositions the stratum of society who live a frugal life and those who live a lavish one. In the modern age we still have people who are deprived of basic necessities like food, water, clothes, houses, etc. and on the contrary there are people who live an opulent lifestyle. Lucinda Roy has used water as a medium to express her concern towards these prevalent disparities. The main focus of the poem is…

Pride and Prejudice is a novel written by Jane Austen. The book portrays the social class at the time and how it affected the people’s lives and their actions. The novel consists of two main characters, Elizabeth and Darcy. During the course of the story, both Elizabeth and Darcy go through changes in the way that the think and act. The author, Jane Austen does this in the hope to send her readers a message through the change between the characters. Throughout the course of the novel Elizabeth…

Meryl Streep’s The Devil Wears Prada, is a very criticized film regarding feminism, fashion, and health. Which are the most important aspects in being editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine (as depicted by the film). The Devil Wears Prada painfully breaks down what it is like to be centerfold and thrusted into the middle of the high-fashion world (as a person with no idea about fashion). Many of these biases are articulated through the book the movie was based off, The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren…