Victorian literature

In the Victorian period men and women’s roles sharpened and became better defined. Gender relationships and stereotypes characterize a society which sees eccessive hypocrisy and social expectations. Oscar Wilde, in “The Importance of Being Earnest”, makes use of a simple and spontaneous writing style, associated with a refined and prone approach in the depiction of reality. In his play, Wilde continuously uses aphorisms and paradoxes to invite the reader to reflect upon the drastic change in…

philosophy at the time, the two novels were based on societal changes underpinned by radical shifts of human responsibility and criminalization of women. Defoe follows a hard approach while Flaubert follows a realistic approach to illustrate the literature authenticity reflected in their characteristics and resultant thematic…

Dracula by Bram Stoker, he shows the views of the victorian women in society and as well with the role the new women played in the era. Though the new women didn’t follow the victorian ideals society adapted to their change and the way they wanted to be. The new women plays a huge role in our society today. Almost every women in our world has the right to live like a new woman in our world today. Mina is seen as the perfect ideal victorian…

romanticism. David Copperfield was, and still is, influential due to Dickens’ mastery of the novel as a genre as well as the novels acute representation of Victorian society, and its criticism of that society. Rather than focus on their contemporary influence the following will attempt to point out how the novels utilize two devices of literature, character development and social criticism, as a measure of the novel’s genre progression between the 100 years span of their authorship. The reason…

I have noticed a pretty clear divide between the Medieval Era and the Victorian Era. The Medieval texts were often complex and exaggerated narratives. On the other hand, the Victorian texts were rather simplistic in nature. Personally, works that depict realistic situations have more credibility. Therefore, Victorian era works of literature serve as a more accurate representation of childhood as opposed to Medieval literature. To support this argument, I will refer to direct situations within…

of classic literature bound together by the Victorian age. While both stories have underlying themes about the struggle of man, both present them in different ways. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, presents its struggle of man as a society where each class of peoples is against each other, being thoroughly influenced by politics of the time. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde details the duality that many people lived their lives as during the Victorian age.…

adultery. The women of Sarah’s time were focused on social equality, women’s rights and changing their roles in society. Sarah displayed something different. The book The End of the Affair, was written during the Modern Era, but throughout we see how Victorian ideas are incorporated and we see how Sarah displays the image of the “fallen woman”…

Tess Essay In the novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy challenges the ideas that the Victorians had. He does this through themes and the three main characters, Tess,Alec and Angel. The two main themes that challenge the Victorian ways is the idea of the perfect woman and social criticism and the main characters that challenge the ways of Victorian ways is Tess, Angel and Alec. The perfect idea of a woman was that they do what men want them to do, stay at home…

is about the evil Count Dracula travelling his way to London, England, turning young, beautiful women into vampires and allure them back to Transylvania in the now-existing Romania. The novel Dracula is written by Bram Stoker in 1897 during the Victorian era. The genre is Gothic fiction due to the combination of horror, lust and love. The novel presents several Gothic devices, which frame the literary work.…

The Victorian society was not divided simply horizontally by class, it was also divided vertically by gender. In both texts we are exposed to gender ideals The importance of a woman’s identity during the Victorian period was unquestionably measured in accordance with her sexual status. The existence of the fallen women was a concept that was prevalent during the Victorian period and is largely connected to sexual purity and an irrevocable loss of innocence. In both Goblin Market and Mary Barton…