Essays about: "Victorian society"
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16. Monks & Oliver: Two Sides of the Same Coin in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist
University essay from Karlstads universitetAbstract : Oliver Twist is a novel loved by many, read by more. It is a classic novel by Charles Dickens, portraying the life and hardships of a young boy named Oliver Twist, who was born in a work house. Oliver is bright and righteous, the exact opposite of his brother Edward “Monks” Leeford. READ MORE
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17. The role of the orphan child in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE
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18. 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 samhälleAbstract : 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
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19. Illuminating Inner Life : A Comparison of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Arthur Schnitzler's Fräulein Else
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : In the early 20th century, authors increasingly experimented with literary techniques striving towards two common aims: to illumine the inner life of their protagonists and to diverge from conventional forms of literary representations of reality. This shared endeavour was sparked by changes in society: industrialisation, developments in psychology, and the gradual decay of empires, such as the Victorian (1837–1901) and the Austro-Hungarian (1867–1918). READ MORE
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20. The split human mind and the portrayal of good and evil in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : .... READ MORE