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In the media today, it is possible to frequently see pundits and politicians bemoaning the state of society in regards to morality...

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

misery" (lines 17-18). By the fourth stanza, the positive attitude of the first lines is completely gone, as the speaker compares ...

may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...

Jane Austen is something of a pioneer. Along with her contemporaries, the Bront? sisters, she produced narrative works of great co...

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

For example, in most cases, the small amount of money paid allotted for the babies care was pocketed by the women charged with car...

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

herself to be more than just a social or racial icon. Instead, Condoleeza Rice has shown her ability to make decisions, be a part...

pendant or brooch (DeNunzio, 2005). The social, political and economical impact of the arts has been vast and encompassing ...

the medieval period, Blackpool consisted of a "few coastal farmsteads within Layton-with-Warbreck" (Blackpool Council, 2005) and s...

authors here Addison and Alexander Pope as well as Swift, Steele and influences from Voltaire. In the age of Johnson between abo...

good job or find a second husband. (She does like being married.) She also feels that if she hadnt gotten older, her husband wou...

of Empire" (pp. 19- 20). The second wave of the British Empire expansion and the development of photography coincided, and as a n...

property and outside of that a berm of round river stones. Roundness is the theme that catches the eye on approach to The Roth Hou...

suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...

In four pages this poetic explication focuses on the contrast between Victorian era religious conventions and Dickinson's individu...

expected to appear in the public sphere, being confined to the household, Blundell notes that they do appear in the artwork and li...

is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...

poor. "This specialisation and - by implication - individualisation of labour was in marked contrast to the rural means of product...

narrator opens her journal entries with a brief description of her new location, i.e., that her family has rented "ancestral halls...

not thinking of his words, only drinking in the tones of his voice. She wanted to reach out her hand in the darkness and touch him...

much wider range of lifestyle choices, and were no longer automatically expected to marry young and embark on a primarily domestic...

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, it is neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and dea...

and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...

point out that the number eight when laid on its side is the sign for infinity and that there is much to suggest that Molly is the...

was a time of free trade. This was a theory of self regulation; this can be seen as an optimistic idea. The invisible hand was t...

an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...