Victorian era Essays & Research Papers

·Introduction: The Victorian era was a period full of changes; the most important was the reign of Queen Victoria, who ascended the throne in 1837 and ruled the British Empire, restoring stability to the crown. Her reign is considered one of the most prosperous in her time, which eventually became the symbol of a period that took its name, "the Victorian Era". Queen Victoria (1819-1901) was the first English monarch to see her name given to the period of her reign whilst still living (1)....

In the Victorian Era, the economic, social, and political status was one huge “tennis ball” effect. The Social conditions of Charles Dickens time were stable, and although there were clear distinctions between classes, they were referred to by “rank” or “order”. The lower class and impoverished people made up an estimated 70% of Britain’s population. 27% were of the middle class, and only 3% were classed as dukes, knights, and assorted gentry. Most people had little possibility of achieving...

Victorian Era The Victorian era was one of good and bad where empires fell and rose as senseless wars were fought, people dominated, and advancements of culture and technology were made throughout. The Victorian era is called the Victorian era because England was currently being ruled over by Queen Victoria. The British Empire reached its greatest size under her reign. The greatest country she conquered was India, it was known as the jewel of the British Empire because it brought England so...

The Victorian Era During the Victorian Era, social classes of England were newly reforming, and fomenting. There was a churning upheaval of the old hierarchical order, and the middle classes were steadily growing. Added to that, the upper classes' composition was changing from simply hereditary aristocracy to a combination of nobility and an emerging wealthy commercial class. The definition of what made someone a gentleman or a lady was, therefore, changing at what some thought was an alarming...

(Compare the Victorian era and jazz era) compare the writing in the time, people and how it influenced what they wrote. Walt Whitman and Gatsby Discussion of poet or deconstruction of poem. Poetic devices, meanings, symbols, metaphors. (3 paragraphs) (relate to Gatsby) gatsby as an obsession, love, beauty, longing, theme in Gatsby Compare themes of obsession, love. Etc. The poem is relative to these themes. Victorian literature and period Jazz age + Great Gatsby Deconstruct...

Queen Victoria Reigns After the Romantics From the romantics, to queen Victoria; it was a time of great social struggles for the poor. Yet a different story was occurring for the middle class, the higher classes where in a time of “relative political and social stability” (Gray 783). These conditions helped shape and greatly impacted the novel writing of the era. In the midsts of the reign of Queen Victoria, the poor went through a time of great struggles, however reforms were occurring,...

During the Victorian era, women were viewed as the very opposite of what a man ought to be. In the words of John Stuart Mill, who published a criticism of the way society differentiated between males and females “The female sex was brought up to believe that its ‘ideal of character’ was the very opposite to that of men’s ‘not self-will , and government by self-control, but submission, and yielding to the control of others…to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have...

Do you ever wonder what health and sanitation were like long ago? The truth is conditions and beliefs were radically different than today. People believed many superstitions over facts, didn’t support hospitals, and thought that being dissected for scientific study was the worst fate for a soul. Nonetheless, health and science made great advancements and discoveries in the Victorian Era. By the 19th century medicine made ample advances through the work of doctors and scientists that refused to...

Women in the Victorian Era The Victorian era was a period of wide extremes - characterized by industrial reforms, cultural transformations, scientific progress, gracious living and grinding poverty and wars. The Victorian era lasted from 1837 to 1901, when Queen Victoria reigned, although many historians believe that the Reform act of 1832 signifies the inception of the Victorian era.The life of women in Victorian era was generally centered on family commitments. Women were seen as temples of...

The status of women in the Victorian era is often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions. During the era symbolized by the reign of British monarch Queen Victoria, women did not have suffrage rights, the right to sue, or the right to own property. At the same time, women participated in the paid workforce in increasing numbers following the Industrial...

How would you describe the consciousness of the Victorian Age? Think about their perception of their place in the world. The consciousness of society in the Victorian age is an interesting factor that greatly changed and evolved during the time period. The era’s beginning and end is marked by the birth and death of the reigning monarch of the time, Queen Victoria, spanning from 1837 to the early 1900s. With the effects of the Industrial Revolution distinctly felt by all classes within society,...

The Victorian Era in England The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence for Britain. Some scholars date the beginning of the period in terms of sensibilities and political concerns to the passage of the Reform Act 1832. The era was preceded by the Georgian period and followed by the Edwardian period. New...

Wanting the American Way Back The “Strenuous Life” was a thought brought upon by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1899, with his views on what the American way is and where he thought the American way was headed. Being a former military member and police chief himself, Roosevelt’s views were far different than majority of other people. Roosevelt thought that America was all about masculinity and patriotism and due to the women movements and other factors, the American way was becoming too...

What did people in Victorian England do in their free time? “The evolving of man does not drive change -- it enables change.” (Unknown) Today, people surf the web, play video games, listen to their iPods, and watch TV (among other things). But back in the late 1700s/early 1800s, they did not have TVs, iPods, video games, or computers. With the resources available then, they would play sports, pick up a book to read, or have play time. One thing that has carried through the centuries is...

Victorian Era. Noelle Huang Contents INTRODUCTION:Queen Victoria SOCIETY CONDITION Social Behaviour Views on Different Classes and Races Gender Expectation Literature Reglious View Working Condition Crime Dress Decor LIFE Scientific Discovery Leisure Transportation Trends Architecture Unique custume TECHNOLOGY Health/Medcine Food Events STYLE Queen Victoria The Victorian Era could be broken down into two phases: early era(1837~1860) and Mid-to-late era (1860~1901). In the...

 Victorian Era Entertainment: Doublets Word Game A very common pastime in the Victorian Era were word games. A word puzzle originally named as Doublets, was popular among all ages in the Victorian Era. Lewis Carroll (author of many popular books of the time including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass) is the inventor of this thought provoking word puzzle. It first appeared in 1879 in the magazine Vanity Fair. I will let Lewis Carroll describe the puzzle in his...

The Victorian Era Values BRIEF INTRODUCTION The Victorian Era of Great Britain was a period of time when Queen Victoria reigned from the years 1837 to 1901. Several values and beliefs made up this age and it is often referred to as the climax of the British industrial revolution. SOCIAL CLASS A main value in the Victorian Era which heavily impacted every individual's daily life was social class. There were three classes: The Working Class consisted of lower commoners and the men...

Victorian Era Feminism: Confined and Demeaned Imagine living in a world completely dominated by men. Imagine, just because of her sex, a woman is left powerless. Worst of all, imagine living a life of confinement, forced to be controlled by men with no chance of escape. Victorian women in nineteenth-century England lived this life. They had no respect, they had no power, and they had no freedom. In Charlotte Brontë’s, Jane Eyre, confinement of women is portrayed as the yearning to find the key...

Social Class in the Victorian Era Since the late eighteenth century, class has been used as a complex term and used in many different ways. “Different social classes can be (and were by the classes themselves) distinguished by inequalities in such areas as power, authority, wealth, working and living conditions, life-styles, life-span, education, religion, and culture.” (Cody, victorianweb.org) The Victorian Era (named after Queen Victoria) began in the early 1900s. Society revolved...

Marriage in the Victorian Era Nowadays a woman for the most part can marry whomever they wish, while in the Victorian Ages, marriage was a more complicated issue that one just didn’t step into. Women these days have a lot more control in their marriage than they used to. It is amazing how much things have changed from a time when men were the head of the house and had so much control over the household to a period where the couple now works together to make decisions. Back in the days of...

The Victorian era which lasted during the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901, established the foundations of many social, cultural and moral ideologies in which many are present to this day. Everywhere you look you can almost always see something Victorian-inspired from floral patterned curtains to elegantly hand crafted candlesticks. When visualizing ‘The Victorian Era’ lavish balls, lace covered dresses, tea parties and fancy lifestyles come to mind. However, the Victorian era is much...

Diseases and Treatments in the Victorian Era By: Will Kraemer September 28, 2011 Outline I- Introduction: the thoughts and ideas about diseases. II- Body: living conditions/ why they got sick 1. How the filth and grime led to diseases 2. Home-remedies 3. Death III- Body: Diseases 1. Cholera 2. Tuberculosis 3. Typhus IV- Body: Treatments and medical discoveries 1. Why they started caring about sanitation and hygiene 2. How they cured it...

The Victorian Era: Time for Change Under the throne of Queen Victoria, a new era arose. For much of the nineteenth century, Victorian’s were known to be “old fashioned, repressed, and prudish.” (Victorian England: An Introduction) During this time, however, industrial production boomed, altering the lives of all classes of citizens. This rapid transformation led the British society to go from confident to uncertainty and doubt regarding Britain’s place in the world. The nineteenth century...

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti in Historical Context Victorian Era: Victorian Britain, 1837 - 1901 Christina Rossetti * Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems * Family: Born in London to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori. She had two brothers...

English 2323 25 July 2011 Religion of the Victorian Era: Faith in Crisis “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness … it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”(Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) The Victorians had a society comparable to ours with an explosion of ideas and innovation. Today our American society is famous for being a “melting pot.” Each individual has a different background where they...

* The Victorian era in Britain was not democratic. The British did not practice modern democracy yet. * Britain was a 'class' society and the upper class (the rich, those with landed estates and titles) still ran everything. * So 'class' was important. Birth order was important because titles, estates, family fortunes in Britain would only go to the first born with the others in the birth order getting far less depending on their place in the order or nothing. * Legitimacy was...

The Victorian Era and The French Lieutenant's Woman The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1981 film of historical fiction, contrasting present day relationships, morality and industry with that of the Victorian era in the 1850s. It is an adaptation of a novel by John Fowles, the script was written by Harold Pinter. The setting is in England, Lyme and London specifically, where Charles, a Darwinian scientist is courting the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The film depicts Charles as...

The Victorian Era: A Prison for a Woman’s Individuality As Victorian writer, George Meredith once dictated: “Each one of an affectionate couple may be willing, as we say, to die for the other, yet unwilling to utter the agreeable word at the right moment.” In the novella The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the main character Edna Montpellier is a Victorian woman awakened from a stagnant life of a typical turn-of-the-century marriage. She looks for a life outside of her family that she...

Christoffer Gammad Dr. Frank Fennel 4/25/2013 Out with the Old in with the New The Victorian Age transformed the minds of the people of Europe. It challenged the ideas and views they came to understand, it created uproars of movements and different bodies of thinking. The growth of an age can be seen through the people who’ve lived through it and how their lives have changed. England quickly became a developing world power with these movements. During the span of this semester, we have...

Explore how the narrator in ‘The Laborarory’, ‘Porhyria’s lover’ and Lady Macbeth and ‘Macbeth’ express their desire for power and control? Both Shakespeare and Browning are renowned writers from the world of English literature. The audience were forced to explore the choices made by the characters in both Macbeth and a selection of Browning’s poems to find out the different strategies they use to express their power and control. In Act one scene five, Lady Macbeth’s powerful character,...

1. Describe the working and living conditions encountered by men, women and children during the industrial revolution. The proletariats were an essential aspect of the industrial revolution. It is typical to assume that workers of the industrial revolution would live a reasonable lifestyle due to their significance to the revolution itself. Ironically enough, their lifestyles were not of luxury or satisfaction. During this era, three conditions suppressed and almost hovered over the...

During the Victorian Era of 1850-1900, women’s fashion became intricate, painful, and also dangerous. The women of this age dressed in this manner in order to show status and beauty. The men, whom were responsible for designing this dress and garment wanted to increase their control of women both mentally and physically. In order to achieve the ideal wasp waist, these women practiced tight-lacing and put on many layers of clothes every day. Victorian Fashion became one of the main causes for...

Obedience in Children’s Literature during the Victorian Age Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Teaching Obedience through Text - Historical Development 3 3. The Victorian Age - a time of change 6 3.1 Broad themes of change 6 3.2 changes in society 6 3.3 Interim Conclusion 7 4. Obedience in Children’s Fiction - Tradition and Change 7 4.1 Kingsley’s The Water Babies 8 4.2 Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and what Alice found...

Question: The study of the Victorian era involved developing a greater appreciation of previous social and literary contexts. Discuss this statement with close study to the texts you’ve studied in class. The study of the Victorian era has informed my appreciation of previous social and literary contexts, as it reveals that texts do not exist in a vacuum, instead they are composed within very specific social, cultural and political contexts and as such their composers use the texts to both...

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS Charles Dickens and the Victorian Era The Poor, The Orphans and The Fallen FAKEERBACUS-ELMNSHELENI BIBI AYESHA 11/23/2013 Fakeerbacus-Elmnsheleni B. Ayesha November 2013 Acknowledgement I wish to express my gratitude to all those who supported me. I also thank my tutor for her guidance. 2 | Dickens and The Victorian Era The Poor, The Orphans and The Fallen Fakeerbacus-Elmnsheleni B. Ayesha November 2013 Table of Contents...

Joshua Wohlgemuth A Tale of Two Cities: The Victorian Era and the Abandonment of Spirituality Throughout the early to mid 19th Century, a new and cultural age took hold of Europe, specifically Great Britain with the commencing of the Victorian Era. Marked by impressive achievements such as the Industrial Revolution, La Belle Epoque, and the beginnings of an urban middle class, this era was also plagued with child labor, poor hygiene, prostitution, the constant class distinctions, and a bloody...

Many themes, styles, genres, and modes of Victorian Literature are reflected in the works of the Bronte Sisters', especially that of Jane Eyre. Common themes of victorian literature are shared with Jane Eyre. Food was a reoccurring theme of throughout many Victorian novels because of the hunger that many people faced in this time period. This theme is reflected in the vivid description of under nourishment at Lowood School in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Another common theme was women's...

The Female Character; Victorian Era to the Modern Woman Throughout history, woman have played many roles in society, in the home, and in literature. They have been relied on as caretakers, home keepers, and in some eras, domestic servants. In literature, female characters are developed with similar traits attributed to the roles previously listed. I will describe the contrast in the literary version of the ideal Victorian woman and the feminist, researched modern woman During the...

Lilyana Hristova, 11IBc Cultural diversity Albion Delights restaurant * ------------------------------------------------- Why not? Two days ago my friend and I went to this recently opened restaurant called Albion Delights. It was celebrating traditional British food over the centuries. We both love English food so we decided to go in and try all of the traditional dishes. * ------------------------------------------------- On the inside The decoration was incredible. I was...

Culture variations around the world bring uniqueness and identification to each individual. Culture is the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought, and through history, the Victorian Era has been one of the most influential times in English history. In the book "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, the author uses images of crime, urban life, and in heritance to portray the culture of the...

Reading the headlines of today’s newspapers, one will nearly always come across an article focusing on a fight for equal rights between genders or races, the race and revolutions of countries in becoming a democracy and the uprising of societies against constricting governments. However during the Victorian Era, a structured hierarchical environment was not only accepted but was considered to be of the upmost importance in society’s continuous survival. Victorian Literature allows readers to...

“How does Dickens use the Cratchit family to highlight the difficulties faced by the poor in Victorian England?” Respond By Sarah Clarence The Cratchit family are the perfect example of the difficulties faced by the poor in Victorian England. Their housing situation, the children working, and Bob working for such a low wage are all social factors that the poor had to live with daily so that they didn’t have to enter workhouses. The population increased dramatically throughout the...

THE VICTORIAN NOVEL SPIS TREŚCI INTRODUCTION 1 I THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOVEL 2 II KEY AUTHORS 3 III KEY TEXTS 3 IV TOPICS 3 INTRODUCTION Many associate the word “Victorian” with images of over-dressed ladies and snooty gentlemen gathered in reading rooms. The idea of “manners” does sum up the social climate of middle-class England in the nineteenth century. However, if there is one transcending aspect to Victorian England life and society, that aspect is change. Nearly every...

The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that Queen Victoria acceded the throne, but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age, more formally known, was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain's literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious, the middle class more powerful and the rich became more...

Victorian Thinkers (Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin) Victorian Thinkers contains studies of four of the most influential critics of 19th-century British culture. Each was heralded a prophet in his own lifetime, and yet each was also regarded as misguided, and even mad, by his contemporaries. Their interests in art and culture led them to develop views on society and economics. Carlyle was a writer of extraordinary stature, radical in thought and style; Ruskin, who began his career as a critic...

In the following essay, I will discuss the topic of feminism and the influence it had on Victorian literature. I will present my argument in relation to the ideology of the period, the female intellect associated with certain literature and the criticism that such authors faced during the period. I will argue that as a result of the oppression suffered, female authors saw such offense as their foundation for their production of literature. I will base the bulk of my argument around the...

 The Victorian Woman and Feminism The image most of us have of the Victorian woman is home loving and devoted to family; one dressed in the finest fabrics encumbered under half a dozen crinolines and laced tightly in a corset. She is sympathetic, unselfish and sacrifices herself daily to be her husband's best friend and companion, never his "competitor", mindful and striving for the same goals as her husband. It is her job to take care of the children and run the household maintaining it as...

Education in Victorian Era Nowadays, people get educated easily although they are upper class, middle class or low class. Do people think why will they get educated easily? Is that a normally happen or some people made that happen? Education in Victorian Era was not normally. They don’t get educated like us, although the middle class people just get the basic education which mean the grammar and the English words. People get educated much easier during Victorian Era than before the Victorian...

3 October 2012 Oscar Wilde, Victorian or Anti-Victorian? Oscar Wilde was a writer during the end of the Victorian era. This is one of the reasons that it is difficult, and still debated, whether he was a Victorian writer or not. His private life was far from the puritanical image of the Victorian era. The Victorian age was full of rigid sensibilities, while the anti-Victorian movement veered in the complete opposite direction. The anti-Victorians were much more adventurous with sex. There...

I. Victorian Culture: Private Transformation, Public Reform (Named after Queen Victoria ; 1837-1901) A. Problems of the Market 1. Changes in the market caused a good deal of anxiety 2. Surface impression that Americans are enormously optimistic about the state of the U.S. a. Laying beneath bragging is a high level of insecurity 1. Uneasy and afraid of aspects of the market revolution a. Fear of social chaos 1. Market society of struggling individuals creates chaotic society of...

Poor Victorian Children -Since a large part of the poor children had to work public jobs to help support their families many parents thought of children as income, and having more children who worked raised the income of the home. Many parents had 10 or 12 or even more children for this reason alone. How old did children have to be to work in Victorian Times? -Victorian children would be made to go to work at a very young age. As unbelievable as it sounds, sometimes even 4 or 5 years old....

orian prose Victorian Prose The Victorian period was in the late 19th century spanning the years of 1830 to 1901, the years that Queen Victoria ruled over England. This was the time when industrial cities thrived and the basis of life shifted from land ownership to an urban economy of manufacturing. A mixing of social classes resulted through factory owner/worker relationships and social standing became more malleable than it was in previous periods. Monetarily the country thrived...

The Victorian Age 1832-1900 Even idleness is eager now, eager for amusement; prone to excursion-trains, artmuseums, periodical literature, and exciting novels. (George Eliot) General Info About the Time • Enormous changes occurred in political and social life in England and the rest of the world • The scientific and technical innovations of the Industrial Revolution, the emergence of modern nationalism, and the European colonization of much of Africa, the Middle East, and the...

Literary Background—Trends in the Victorian NovelWhen we speak of the Victorian novel we do not mean that there was a conscious school of the English novel, with a consciously common style and subject-matter, a school which began creating with the reign of Queen Victoria and which came to an end with the end of that reign. The English are too individualistic for such conformity. However, there can be no denying the fact that the English novel during second half of the nineteenth century, with...

Victorian Paragraphs Immigrants and Natives Living in Canada No matter where you lived, your social class always stayed the same, which was unfortunately the case for immigrants and first nation’s people in Canada. Immigrants coming to Canada were hoping for one of two things: their own land, and freedom of class. Most new immigrants to Canada were from Europe, but mainly Ireland and Scotland. The living conditions were the same in Canada as they were in Europe. The poor stayed poor, and...

Dr Perry Victorian Literature Reading List. The best anthology of poetry is Christopher Ricks’s The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987), but you will need to acquire or to borrow editions of the authors you choose to study. Some Background Reading. G.K. Chesterton’s The Victorian Age in Literature (Oxford, 1913; often reprinted) is eccentric and dazzling. Robin Gilmour’s The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature, 1830-90 (Longman, 1994) is a...

Contents 1.0. Abstract………………………………………………………………………………page 3 2.0. Introduction -Historical Development and characteristics of the period………..............................................................................page 4-8 3.0. The Victorian Novel…………………………………………………………… page 8-17 4.0. Victorian Poetry…………………………………………………………………page 17-29 5.0. Other literatures of the period. …………………………………………..page 29-40 -Children’s literature -Drama -Science,...

The Victorian era, from the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 until her death in 1901, was an era of several unsettling social developments that forced writers more than ever before to take positions on the immediate issues animating the rest of society. Thus, although romantic forms of expression in poetry and prose continued to dominate English literature throughout much of the century, the attention of many writers was directed, sometimes passionately, to such issues as the growth of...

 Victorian Literature Victorian literature covered a wide range of themes and writings styles. It was most popular during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) and is known as the Victorian era. Victorian literature was formed from three main styles, Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism. Each of the styles contained writers, poets, and novelists. In the early part of the Victorian era, most of the literature was romantic. The themes of Romanticism were optimistic: worth, love, and the...

“The character of Dorian Gray is a symbol of social degeneration that Victorian society so greatly fears.” How far and in what ways do you agree? The character of Dorian Gray could be seen as a symbol of social degeneration and the apparent Fin De Siècle that Victorian society feared, however he is not the only culprit, Wilde presenting this relapse in social and sexual morality to have already happened; Dorian just being a more blatant representation of this, as opposed to other ‘high...

From Romantic to Victorian The Victorian Age came after the Romantic Age and took place between the years of 1832 and 1901. Throughout the Romantic Age many authors/poets concentrated and focused on the rights of the people, as well as the idea of individualism. We are going to see how those beliefs helped spring into the Victorian Age. There are three main things concerning the Victorians during this specific time period: evolution, industrialism, and women. Along with these three comes...

The Victorian period was an era of constantly shifting and contradicting ideologies concerning women, which extended over many areas of society and culture including politics and the media, the family and domestic field as well as the contemporary and traditional beliefs within the art institutions. The body of the belief systems about women and the feminine ideal that are present in each of these areas involve a combination of established or traditional ideas versus those of a contemporary and...

The Victorian age (1832-19019: GENERAL FEATURES The 1832 Great Reform Bill is generally taken as the watershed between the Romantic Age and the so-called Victorian Age. The age that was taking shape in those years and that ended at the beginning of our century was much less homogeneous than it may appear at a superficial analysis. It was an age of extremes and contradictions under a surface of balance and respectability. The key-ideas that intersected in the seventy years of Queen...

Judith Walkowitz’s book Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State, deals with the social and economic impact that prostitution had on English society in the mid to late 19th century. Throughout her piece Walkowitz illustrates the plight of women who are in the prostitution field and that are working the streets throughout England. She starts with the background of most of the prostitutes in Victorian England then talks about the Contagious Disease Act in 1864 that attempted...

The goal of most playwrights is to relay a message of concern or interest to the audience in order to inform or educate them on issues faced in society, giving them a position to form their own opinion on the issues portrayed. In Oscar Wilde’s, The Importance of Being Earnest, many of the Victorian society’s views on life were described and illustrated for the audience’s comprehension. Through the duration of the play, the true corruptness of the upper class was portrayed through a series of...

Poverty in the Victorian Era. Child Labour During the Industrial Revolution, children as young as four were employed in production factories with dangerous, and often fatal, working conditions. Based on this understanding of the use of children as laborers, it is now considered by wealthy countries to be a human rights violation, and is outlawed, while some poorer countries may allow or tolerate child labour. Child labour can also be defined as the full-time employment of children who are...

 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY William Makepeace Thackeray was an English author, novelist and satirist who gained international fame and popularity for his novel Vanity Fair. His most famous works include novels Catherine, The Luck of Barry Lyndon and The Adventures of Philip. Initially started as a satirist and parodist, Thackeray produced some of fine examples of this genre. The author was also a journalist and columnist and contributed sketches for the Fraser's magazine before writing his...

Alexander Lucero AP English 12 Yu 5.17.12 Homosexuality Portrayed in Literature: Threat To Yourself and Those Around You The Victorian era and Elizabethan era had many homophobic attributes, just as today's society does. Gothic writers of the Victorian Age played off of the fear and immorality of homosexuality and used those feelings as a basis for their novels. Bram Stoker told a story about a vampire that challenged the Victorian gender roles and managed to reverse them, making...

VICTORIAN COMPROMISE It was a complex and contradictory era: it was the age of progress, stability, great social reforms but it was also charactersised by poverty, injustice and social unrest. The Victorians promoted a code of values that reflect the world as they wantede it to be, not as it really was, based on personal duty, hard work, respectability and charity. In thi periods was very important to work hard for improve the society. The idea of respectability distinguished the middle from...

The Loss of Victorian Morality The Victorian era marks the period of Queen Victoria’s reign over England from 1837, until her death in January 1901. It was an age of new prosperity brought about by thriving industrialization, new scientific discoveries and technology, which encouraged the rise of an educated middle class. This new age also brought about a shift from agriculture to manufacturing, causing mass immigration into cities. City life provided Victorians with freedom and anonymity...

Bret Wolfe EN 206 5 April 2012 England’s Victorian Age is known as a long period of peace and prosperity, marked by a sense of refinement and fervent British nationalism. During this era, only the Crimean War in 1854, and the Boer War in the final years of Queen Victoria’s reign, interrupted the peace that Britain experienced. The Victorian Age ushered in a Golden Age for the nation, instilling confidence in British subjects as their country made great strides in technology, commerce, and...

PRIFYSGOL BANGOR: BANGOR UNIVERSITY DEGREE EXAMINATIONS 2008-09, semester 2 ARHOLIADAU GRADD 2008-09, semester 2 SCHOOL of ENGLISH Pre-released question paper QXE2005: Victorian Literature Time allowed: three hours Answer THREE questions. Each response should refer substantially to at least TWO writers studied on this course. You should not use material in answering one question which you have used in answering another. 1. Discuss the mechanisms of characterisation used...

Children in Victorian Britain Introduction “May I have some more?” The classic line from Oliver twist that everybody seems to know. It gives us an insight on what many Victorian children had to go through. But what else was there other than the well-known fact that children were sent to work at the measly age of 4? Other than children were better of seen than heard. In this I will describe to you the typical childhood that most children rich or poor lead from birth to school. Lets start...

HAND-OUT FOR ENGLISH III LONG TEST 2, 3RD QUARTER THE VICTORIAN AGE 1832-1901 QUEEN VICTORIA (1819-1901)  May 2, 1837 when King William died, Victoria at the age of 18 went on to rule England until 1901.  In 1840, she married her German cousin Albert.  Prince Albert built the Balmoral Castle to escape from the stressful life in London.  1861 Prince Albert died. I. POLITICAL EXPANSION  The Victorian Age encompassed years of...

The Industrial Revolution in Victorian England was a period of time in history when new inventions and technology changed the way people lived and worked. It impacted how they communicated, the way products were manufactured, and created new forms of cheaper and faster transportation. Innovations resulted in changes that were previously unheard of. The invention of the steam engine revolutionized the way people and things were transported. Manufacturers were able to ship their goods more...

Victorian Times- 1837-1901 What do Victorian times mean? Victorian times means during Victoria's rule. The time Queen Victoria was on the throne. She ruled for 64 years. What was it like living in the Victorian times? There was no electricity, instead gas lamps or candles were used for light. There...

Women in Victorian Novels The ideas and standards that are set with being a proper Victorian woman are starting to become questioned. Through these novels there are subtle hints portrayed throughout the book of women being able to make their own choices and finally have their own independence. Some women choose to take the opportunity and have a say while others still abide by the Victorian way.   Louis J Boyle Victorian Writers 30 April 2013...

Tennyson as a Victorian Poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) achieved, what so many poets and writers throughout the centuries were unable to achieve, fame and success during his lifetime. Indeed, in 1850, after the publication of “In Memoriam”, he was installed to the position of poet laureate. Tennyson not only distinguished himself by his work to date, but also honored with the responsibility of representing the state during its most solemn and celebratory occasions. As Poet Laureate, he...

‘To what extent were there gender inequalities in Victorian Britain?’ In Victorian Britain gender inequalities would have been evident as women’s right to vote was not legalised until 1928. Queen Victoria was not an advocate in equal rights for women which is a fair representation for the rest of British society at the time as she was a woman in England at the time with most power so shouldn’t she be the spearhead for women suffrage? In addition, Queen Victoria’s empire, naval and national...

VICTORIANISM AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL Nineteenth century English literature is remarkable both for high artistic achievement and for variety. The greatest literary movement of its earlier period was that of romanticism. It was born in the atmosphere of the violent economic and political turmoil that marked the last decades of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th century. A discussion of Victorianism involves a consideration of a diversity of views about a glorious...

Child Labor in Victorian England "The report described the children as ‘Chained, belted, harnessed like dogs…black, saturated with wet, and more than half-naked, crawling upon their hands and knees, and dragging their heavy loads behind them'" (Yancey 34). This quote from Ivor Brown probably best describes the strenuous work preformed by a child laborer during the Victorian Era. Child laborers played an important part in developing the country's economy. Children, one of the main sources...

 Victorian Poetry Part—C ------Composed by Anamil Das Assistant Professor, English. Govt. Girls’ College, Khulna. Cell No.-01711222281 Email: anamildas@yahoo.com Suggestion for Third Year (Hons.) Exam--2012 Victorian Literature 1. Discuss Tennyson’s use of myths and legend in his poetry. *** 2. Discuss Tennyson as a poet of nature/imagery/pictorial quality.** 3. Discuss Tennyson as a representative poet of the Victorian age. 4. Critically analyze Browning’s attitude towards...

I was surprised when I learned that the Victorian era had many sports. Sports allow people to come together and spend time with one another. Women, children and men could all participate in one sport or another. As it is now, it was back then, a great way to spend time with each other and just kick back and relax. Some sports that were played back then were bicycling, croquet, lawn tennis, and soccer. Bicycling was a very popular sport to participate in. It was inexpensive to...

Sierra Brewster ENGL-2322 07/29/12 Research Paper: Victorian Wedding Dresses The Victorian Era ranged between the years 1837-1901. In the United States this was right after the Civil War when Westward Expansion was occurring, and attracted millions of immigrants who were primarily from Europe. For example, some of these immigrants migrated from Italy and Austria, most likely because of the forces of nationalism. It was always a land controlled by stronger powers. Napoleon was in charge...

Victorian Influences on Literature In 1904 J.M. Barrie published the book Peter Pan. The novel first started as a play, and since then been reproduced into many different version. It published a few short years after Queen Elizabeth passed away and the Victorian Era had come to an end. The characters have specific characteristics that represent the time period. The Darlings represent the way Barrie saw the Victorian Era. We see this through the characterization of Mr. Darling, Nana,...

Bryant Million Eng 532 Paper #1 Victorian versus Vampire The Victorian Era was the period in which Queen Victoria ruled the United Kingdom, starting around the mid-19th Century and spanning to 1901. This period is considered to be a time of reform for England, as British values such as sexual restraint, low crime tolerance and a strict social code of conduct were developed. In 1897, near the end of the Victorian era, the Irish author Bram Stroker’s novel “Dracula” was published. The novel...

Female Victorian women, in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre do not conform to their stereotype. During early Victorian England, women did not have suffrage rights, the right to sue, or the right to own their own property. Women were seen as belonging to the domestic sphere. This stereotype obliged them to provide their husbands with a clean home, food and to raise their children. When a Victorian man and woman married, the rights of the woman were legally given over to her spouse. Under the...

The woman I chose is my step-mom, Heather Gassner. She is very clean cut and normal by the standards of society. Heather has medium length brown/blonde hair and a pretty white smile with straight teeth. She wears very light make-up and modest clothing. Heather shows her “Victorian ways” by her modest dress and polite attitude. Her job and mission in life is to make sure her family is well taken care of and provided for. She loves her family and will do whatever she needs to in order to make...

Examine how Victorian writers portray the experience of childhood. Victorian writers often explore the idea of childhood, with themes of persecution, education and religion being commonly prevalent. Specifically, the negative aspects of childhood seem to be explored in a manner in which writers use hyperbolic and satirical means to express their critique. The persecution of children seems a recurring theme in Victorian literature at which writers show their dismay, focusing on the oppression...

TARNÓW STATE COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Mateusz BILIŃSKI PORTRAIT OF FEMME FATALE IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE Project presented in part fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Licentiate in Tarnów State College, written under the supervision of dr Dominika Ruszkiewicz TARNÓW 2013 CONTENTS...

“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Stevenson Book Analysis “North and South” by Gaskell Book Report Example of Literature Review essay, Sample Paper Introduction The literature of the Victorian period is the synonymy of oppositions. Some of the oppositions introduced by this period are to be considered “vital” as they deal with the major human values. The list of the works known to be the best representations of the Victorian world outlook is very long; nevertheless some works are to be...

Victorian Mores In Jane Eyre During the Victorian era, it was only acceptable to abide by a set of unspoken rules acknowledged by society called mores. Some of the mores that were present in the eighteenth-century time period included the importance of the family, high standards of morality and decency, and that people must be punished or rewarded for their actions and deeds. Although these mores are not present in modern culture, invisible laws still exist in society today and need to be...

The Victorian Era spanned the lifetime of its monarch, Queen Victoria, who had the longest reign in English history from 1837 to 1901. The Victorian Era was one of reforms and reconstruction of the old ways of life. It was a time where many great scientific discoveries were found, a time where the social class system went through many changes.[1] Victorian England was very much influenced by the industrial revolution that was gripping the whole western world. The industrial...

Child Labor of the Victorian Era The Victorian Era was a time period from 1837 to 1901 in which Queen Victoria was in power. During this time, so much went on that influenced the world today, as it will in the world tomorrow. Also many things were taken advantage of during this period. One main thing that occurred during this time period that was highly taken advantage of is child labor. Child labor was experienced by many famous people, such as Charles Dickens in the years of the...

Fashion in the Edwardian era, 1901-1919 The Last Age of Elegance When Queen Victoria died in January 1901 a reign, a century and an entire age were passing. Her son, Edward VII, would give his name to an era of unparalleled luxury and opulence. A new decorative style was emerging, Art Nouveau, with its flowing, organic forms, which were reflected in the sinuous curves of the Edwardian lady. The height of fashion still seemed to be that of the Lady - mature, sophisticated and well-bred. But...

LACK OF MOTHER AND METAPHORS OF REUNION IN OLIVER TWIST AND JANE EYRE The aim of this paper is to discuss the psychological effects of being motherless and orphanhood and metaphors of reunion under social class distinction observation on the characters of two well known Victorian novels; Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist. Orphanhood means having no parents but in Victorian society this term also refers to “one who has deprived of only one parent” as Laura Peters states. As a...