Victorian literature

Each century defines its own standards of how people in a relationship should treat one another. In the theory of cultural studies, people often look at the differences in how relationships were maintained and handled according to the current day and age. The play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen clearly illustrates how relationships were in the eighteen hundreds. He plainly articulates that, during those times, a man was the head of the household and a woman was only good for complying with all…

Henrik Ibsen’s, A Doll’s House, explores common situations that women faced in the Victorian Era. Ibsen wrote and established his play in the Victorian time of history, when women struggled against the world which viewed females as inferior to men and limited as to what they can do. Males were dominating and highly respected during this era. On the contrary, females were expected to put men on a pedestal and had no other option but to live up to societal expectations to men. Three female…

The intriguing and malevolent plot of the play The Monkey’s Paw has many twists and turns. At the beginning it goes from a jovial mood to a solemn and disheartening environment. The many props onstage greatly established that the play was set in the late 1800’s, when Britain colonized India. This includes the fireplace, where the Sergeant Major’s wife tries to burn the paw. The wood stove used was clearly of an older model, which would have been relevant in the late 1800’s. This and many…

Part 1 Ideology – In Victorian Studies, ideology is referred to as the extent to which what may look articulate and complete in review was actually fissured by opposing emphases and interests. The Victorian ideology is related with middle-class ideology, which is challenged and under construction as it was always in the making, open to reconstruction, disagreement and the emergence of oppositional inventions. Class – Class emerges from the Victorian ideals of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.…

manners, the entertainment form that satirizes the manners of a social class, in Wilde’s case, the high upper class, as previously mentioned. “The Importance of Being Earnest” is a great example of this, as Wilde in this play, repeatedly mocks Victorian traditions, such as the pursuit of love, which we see in both Gwendolen and Cecily, who both have put their faith in the Christian name of Earnest, quite unlike the mother of Gwendolen; Lady Bracknell who is much more methodical and analytical…

about the Regency Era and Victorian period, two different periods in different centuries.. I´m going to discuss the subjects women issues and social classes that were in these two periods in Great Britain. To strengthen my examples, I´m going to use two versions of the Mansfield Park series and the the novel Persuasion written by Jane Austen. The British time periods We can divide British time into smaller time periods, for instance Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Georgian and Victorian. Within the…

Composer's use their distinctive voices to explore their ideas about humanity, revealing the unvarnished truths of idealism and change. In Lawler’s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, considered ground-breaking for its distinctive use of Australian colloquial language and idiom, along with its unique depiction of Australian working class characters and experiences, highlights the dangers of excessive idealism and the failure to accept change and the rigors of time. While Omar Musa’s “Capital…

In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, written by Charles Dickens, motifs profoundly help characterize certain characters throughout the novel. Motifs help connect certain descriptions and attitudes from a certain item to a character or theme. In the novel, the motif “stone” is used to characterize the Monseigneur. The motif helps connects the idea that the Monseigneur has a heart of stone. Like many of other members of the aristocracy in France, he treats others that are lower than him horribly…

and what we had paid our life before to get it.Women in the Victorian era, treated like an object with no love, what they strive for is freedom, and that was what they wanted.The author of The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin’s stories tell of these things such as freedom.Thesis: Through the use of setting and symbolism, both Chopin and Gilman seek to show the oppression of women in the Victorian society affects women’s physical and mental health in…

Men Supremacy A Doll’s House is a play written by Henrik Ibsen that shows how poorly women were treated during the Victorian Era. A Doll’s House is a realistic story that describes the relationship between men and women at that time. Its purpose was to define the role of women. Also to show how appearance and societal norms affect families and the way people act. In this play, Torvald the main character calls his wife, Nora, childish nicknames like little, my squirrel, and my skylark. He does…