Essays about: "Victorian society"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 29 essays containing the words Victorian society.

  1. 21. Dualism in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Sara Fridell; [2014-07-04]
    Keywords : Oscar Wilde; post-colonialism; identity; dualism; duplicity; satire;

    Abstract : Abstract: In this essay I explore the dualism in Oscar Wilde’s most famous society comedy The Importance of Being Earnest. My thesis is that Wilde employed the well-established Late Victorian concept of double identity as well as a dualistic theme in the play, revealed in the language and in the strategies of lying, in order to exploit the hypocrisy of the society, i. READ MORE

  3. 22. Bendable and Breakable Men: Changes in masculinity in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Sofia Nordstrand; [2014]
    Keywords : Charlotte Brontë; Jane Eyre; Anne Brontë; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; feminism; gender; masculinity; performativity; Victorian society; Languages and Literatures;

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  4. 23. The Fear of the Fall: Degeneration and Social Inequality in the Frame Narrative of H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sissel Hanström; [2013]
    Keywords : Degeneration; time travel; H.G. Wells; frame narrative; social difference; The Time Machine; Victorian society;

    Abstract : H. G Wells’s novel The Time Machine is a significant work of science fiction that dramatizes the themes of degeneration and social inequality, themes that were very relevant during the Victorian era in relation to the discovery of evolution. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Exercise of Power through Creation of Knowledge: A Narrative of Environmental Change During Colonization in Kiambu, Kenya

    University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Kristin Follis; [2012]
    Keywords : environmental narratives; colonization; soil erosion; Kenya; knowledge power; sustainable development;

    Abstract : Ongoing environmental change is one of the greatest barriers facing programs and policies aiming to achieve sustainable development today. While the concept of sustainable development is relatively new, the threat of environmental change is not. READ MORE

  6. 25. Deo-Victorian Society in the Neo-Victorian Novel: A Study of Sensory Perceptions in Michel Faber´s The Crimson Petal and the White

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Pepita Eskelin; [2011]
    Keywords : Michel Faber; The Crimson Petal and the White; urban hygiene; smell; vision; sensory perceptions; neo-Victorian novel; prostitution;

    Abstract : This paper explores the contemporary reader´s fascination with the Victorian period focusing on Michel Faber´s neo-Victorian novel The Crimson Petal and the White (2002). By comparing and contrasting various literary elements that link the Victorian novel to contemporary neo-Victorian fiction it simultaneously shows the similarities and differences between the nineteenth-century Victorian sensorium and that of the present day. READ MORE