Victorian morality

While poetry was the most dominant genre up to the Romantic Period, the Victorian Era can be considered as the age of the novel, not only did the Victorian Era revolutionized the novel in those times, but it also made it as the most popular form of literary writing that has remained up to present times. The Victorian Era was named after Queen Victoria, who was the first English monarch to see her name given during the period of her reign whilst still living. Victoria’s reign lasted over 63 years…

characters in this novel are exaggerated to the point of absurdity when it comes to their obsession with class. Victorian upper class demands its members to keep up an important image in society and value money and appearance above all else, including people. Wilde satirizes the motivations of these characters and uses their values to question the ideals of the upper class members in a Victorian society. Serious things such as marriage and love are made trivial, and trivial things such as names…

The Victorian era, a time period that lasted from 1837-1901, is characterized with a morality in which meticulous rules of conduct were practiced and gender restrictions on individuals were in place. Furthermore, Victorian ideology witnessed an increasing interest towards romanticism and naturalism. The Awakening by Kate Chopin displayed these philosophies with intricate characters that were considered to be controversial at this time. Chopin illustrates the limitations of Edna Pontellier in her…

known as Professor James Moriarty. Doyle’s creation of Moriarty was influenced by major criminals, who were known for terrorizing Victorian England such as Adam Worth and Jack the Ripper. Doyle had designed Moriarty to be a criminal mastermind who represents an opposition towards Victorian morality, and made him an “other” of Victorian England’s society. Victorian morality was a strict ethical code and a low tolerance for crime, which were the values of people living in 19th century England.…

sodomy. In the Victorian era, there are many famous examples of homosexual men, including the most famous, Oscar Wilde . Many Victorians knew about these so called ‘sodomites’ and often ignored them in upper levels of society . In reality,…

Dressing the Victorian Men, Women, and Children One cannot understand Victorian fashion without having knowledge of the historical period and in particular the values that shaped it. In general, the Victorian Age describes the decades of history in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837-1901. This period was characterized by the spread of the British Empire and in turn a commitment to “civilizing” the native peoples by imparting the unique British model of society (“The…

attain their goals, a woman accomplishing anything significant was unheard of two hundred years ago. A history of submission and constraint has deemed them the weaker sex, though this is far from the truth. The depiction of femininity during the Victorian Age differed greatly from the image of women today. Men and women…

Victorian era was also a time of great signification for the political system. When Victorian reign took place, the first prime minster is she appointed was Whig politician Viscount Melbourne although the Whigs had a great influence in the British politics during 1860s, they were still sidelined by the liberal party. Edward Smith Stanley of the Whig was the last prime minster who resigned in 1868 and after that politics of England was dominated by the liberals and conservative party. At a time…

The definition of women’s beauty throughout the Victorian era in Britain is diversified and indeterminate as it was tightly linked with common notions of suitable female behavior in society as well as her physical appearance. The beauty was an essential element in nineteenth-century female integrity, while a relevant degree of concern with female beauty was supposed to be a constitutive part of her status within society. Meanwhile,…

characters in English literature. Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ addresses Victorian anxieties regarding its women’s feminist awakening and breaking of patriarchal chains during the time and highlighted this fear in his novel. By focusing on these topics in his novel, Stoker, who was a staunch conservative Anglican and advocate of patriarchy, emphasises how women’s interests were leading to a dangerous change in the Victorian morality, and with the advent of the New Woman could hyperbolically eventuate…