Essays about: "victorian England"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words victorian England.

  1. 1. Cultural Clash and Gender Roles : Exploring the Quest for Equality in Jane Eyre and Things Fall Apart

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Anne M Johansson; [2024]
    Keywords : Gender; cultural clash; equality; religion; colonialism; Genus; kulturkrock; jämställdhet; religion; kolonialism;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to analyze the intersectionality between themes of cultural clash and gender roles within the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, accentuating their common quest for equality. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis, divulging the gender norms prevalent in Victorian England and pre-colonial Nigeria, serving as a backstage to the characters’ adaptations and struggles. READ MORE

  3. 2. Manifestations of Capitalism from a Marxist Perspective : A comparison of Cultural Values and Moral Codes in Moby Dick and David Copperfield

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Graham Hepworth; [2018]
    Keywords : Marxism; Victorian; antebellum; Romanticism; Realism; feudalism; bourgeois; aristocracy; capitalism; manifest destiny;

    Abstract : This is a study of Charles Dickens David Copperfield and Herman Melville Moby Dick from a Marxist perspective, exploring the different manifestations of the capitalist system, with critical reference to the theories of Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton. It will attempt to understand cultural differences, values and moral codes, that the two novels reveal about Victorian England and Antebellum America, at this point in literary history, the decade of time with 1850 at its centre. READ MORE

  4. 3. The role of the orphan child in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Rebecca Albertsson; [2017]
    Keywords : Charles Dickens; Oliver Twist; Victorian Society; England; Languages and Literatures;

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  5. 4. Wilde's Women : A feminist study of the female characters in Oscar Wilde’s comedies of manners: Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Minon Weber; [2017]
    Keywords : oscar wilde; wilde; comedies of manners; victorian England; society; Victorian Society; patriarchy; feminism; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; Lady Windermere s Fan; Rita Felski; Felski; patriarchal society; transgressing gender boundaries; gender boundaries; fallen woman; fallen women; good women; good woman; stereotypes; theatre; play; plays; comedies; Oscar Wilde feminism; Oscar Wilde plays;

    Abstract : Towards the end of the 19th century, Wilde produced the three comedies that I will focus on in this essay. These plays, Lady Windermere’s Fan, A woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, are all comedies of manners: intelligent dramatic comedies satirising contemporary fashionable circles of society and its manners, as well as social expectations. READ MORE

  6. 5. In Search of Firmness-Parenting and Education in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sari-Leena Viirola; [2012]
    Keywords : Dickens; David Copperfield; parenting; education; upbringing; parent-child relation; child abuse; firmness;

    Abstract : Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield abounds with fatherless and motherless children, whose development into adolescence and adulthood is strongly affected by the parenting skills of the remaining parent. This essay studies different parenting and educational practices in the novel to see their impact on the behaviour and personality of the children. READ MORE