YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Victorian Literature Characters
Essays 241 - 270
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...
embraced by the church. Although it is true that some denominations do not allow women to run things, many denominations such as t...
womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...
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...
she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...
In five pages this paper considers the Victorian concept of feminine identity as depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White an...
in other arenas. On the other hand, a womans ponderous role germane to pregnancy, menstruation (considered a time of illness, debi...
era was a time of cultural renewal that saw significant declines in crime and social vices ("The Big," 1998). She also notes that ...
The underclass practically disappeared (1995). While this is the case, one has to understand how gender played a part in comprehe...
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 seven pages this paper examines Wilde's views of homosexuality in Victorian times as depicted in The Importance of Being Earnes...
society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...
In five pages Edward Rochester and Fitzwilliam Darcy are contrasted and compared with the gentleman concept of the Victorian era a...
way that different people were seen. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the...
In ten pages the gender roles and rules associated with the Victorian Age are considered in an analysis of A Room with a View by E...
In eleven pages this paper discusses how women were marginalized in England's nineteenth century Victorian society. Four sources ...
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...
This 6 page paper explores the status of women in the Victorian era by examining the way they are presented in three Hardy novels,...
In a paper consisting of 9 pages the anti Victorian sentiments that are expressed with great subtlety throughout the poem in terms...
children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministe...
First and foremost, the Thrush is seen by this Romantic poet in heroic terms, as a male facing the storm of the public world in or...
support of it. If Rousseau is a Romantic and Newman a Victorian, it seems that the difference lies in the fact that Rousseau wants...
the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...
such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...
are portrayed in this story range from shepherds to artisans, and in this way Hardy stays true to the types of characters that wou...
those around them, as if they were now removed from all responsibility to those around them. She seems to call them dead before th...
despair associated with poverty, class distinctions, and opportunities for individuals to ever rise above their "place." The Dif...
In eight pages this paper discusses how Victorian theater was impacted by new technology in terms of staging and social culture. ...
be attacked as while many analysts will agree that Plato clearly states this in The Republic, his other works suggest other ideas....