Essays about: "Victorian society"

Showing result 26 - 29 of 29 essays containing the words Victorian society.

  1. 26. Time Dissolving and Freedom in The French Lieutenant´s Woman : From Novel to Film Adaptation

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Jenny Karolina Proestos; [2010]
    Keywords : Time; Freedom; Immanence; Immanent; Adaptation; Narrative levels; Film adaptation; John Fowles; Harold Pinter; The French Lieutenant´s Woman; Love; Interiority; Exteriority;

    Abstract : This essay examines the adaptation of The French Lieutenant’s Woman; proclaiming that it is based on the same core of meaning as the novel. This core, or interiority, of the art work, is the freedom which Sarah Woodruff presents. The interiority is immanent within the novel as well as the film. READ MORE

  3. 27. What Makes a Happy Marriage? : A Study of Choice in Four Jane Austen Novels

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Gao Yishen; [2010]
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    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to show how important both the outward and inward factors are in decision-making process in relation to marriage in the four novels Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. The argument was that all Austen’s novels revolve around the balance of all external and internal factors. READ MORE

  4. 28. Socrates and Rossetti : An analysis of Goblin Market and its use in the classroom

    University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik

    Author : Frida Hed; [2007]
    Keywords : Socrates; Rossetti; Goblin; lesson planning; Socratic Dialogue method; Victorian;

    Abstract : ABSTRACT This essay concerns Christina Rossetti’s poem Goblin Market and its use in a Swedish upper secondary classroom. The purpose of this essay was to analyse the poem through a Marxist perspective and investigate how both the analysis of the poem and the poem itself could be used when teaching English to an upper secondary class. READ MORE

  5. 29. The Savage and the Gentleman : A Comparative Analysis of Two Vampire Characters in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Ramona Anttonen; [2000]
    Keywords : vampire; Bram Stoker; Anne Rice; Lestat; Dracula; Lombroso; Gothic Fiction; Neo-Gothic Fiction;

    Abstract : The creatures known as vampires have inspired authors for several hundred years. These beings are stereotypically described as belonging to a “nocturnal species” who live “in shadows” and drink “our lives in secrecy” (Auerbach 1). READ MORE