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elements of civilisation to the native Britons, and in the latter part of the nineteenth century, the Pax Britannica was frequentl...

chance to marry and would fight amongst other females for this dubious honor. She would also seem to be showing that in each case ...

formula which would ensure the future of the white minority into the next century (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition ...

woman likes her surroundings and it is clear that she likes them orderly. A young woman who was not immersed somehow in the idea o...

noted for acerbity or harshness in his work; even though he was in many respects critical of the way in which contemporary society...

era was a time of cultural renewal that saw significant declines in crime and social vices ("The Big," 1998). She also notes that ...

In five pages this paper considers the Victorian concept of feminine identity as depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White an...

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

In seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...

that tended to see women in a strictly stereotypical fashion. The following examination of Charlotte Brontes life and her mast...

do with her own ambitions and determination to be acknowledged as a meaningful writer than it has to do with her ability to write ...

in other arenas. On the other hand, a womans ponderous role germane to pregnancy, menstruation (considered a time of illness, debi...

In five pages Edward Rochester and Fitzwilliam Darcy are contrasted and compared with the gentleman concept of the Victorian era a...

In five pages this essay discusses how Victorian morality is portrayed in Oscar Wilde's witty and sophisticated play. There are n...

In eight pages this paper examines how Dickens' critiqued Victorian industrialism in his novel and then evaluates his social contr...

and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...

to provide voice and data network traffic, and Mincom who beat PeopleSoft and SAP for the five year $7 million contract (Bajkowski...

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...

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

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...

are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

great inner pain and conflict as does Flora. She refuses to give in to the superstitions which seem to govern the lives of her rel...

values, and sin versus redemption. The cycle of Pips life illustrates how Pip went from being an innocent boy, into being an arrog...

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

that no manipulation of light and pose could have con- veyed the delicate shade of truthfulness upon those features. She seemed re...

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

original composition, rather than critiquing others, their time would be much better employed. Wordsworth said that "A false or ma...

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,...