Victorian era

Oscar Wilde, criticizes the Victorian era. Wilde touches on key subjects like social status, marriage, and utilizes various symbolisms, in a comedic way to mock the Victorian era’s detrimental culture. Wilde uses contrasting characters to convey a symbolism of the Victorian era in a satirical way. In doing this, he uses different characters to prove his point in mocking Victorian culture. These characters are used represent all that is worth criticizing in Victorian society. Firstly

the setting of Dracula, Victoria Era, the novel encompasses all social prejudices and beliefs regarding the roles assigned to women and men. Men used to have enough freedom and lifted up to authority while women were suppressed socially. Bram Stoker uses the two women; Lucy Westenra and Mina Harker and Professor Van Helsing to express the ideal women should be and should not be in the ideal society. The dissenting opinion gives threat to the patriarchal Victorian society to end in ruins. Lucy and

in Ireland a playwright, writer Oscar Wilde spent most of his years in England, where he was seen as a homosexual. Wilde was facing judgement, risks, and trail as well as many other people that fit in the category of being homosexual during the Victorian era. Oscar was a practicing homosexual at the wrong time in history. In England of the 1890s, this practice was not only illegal, but was considered to be so despicable that no one of substance would even speak to a known homosexual” (). Wilde’s play

common day racehorse. In addition to being good-looking, a young girl was expected to be able to sing, play an instrument and speak French and Italian. They needed to be gentle, innocent and ignorant of their intellectual opinions. Women in the Victorian society were meant to be weak, helpless, fragile and unable to think for themselves. There only job was to make sure the home was comfortable for the children and the man of the house. Her one use to the world was to produce a large family and a

Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde, political play, satirizes the beliefs in the Victorian Era such as; women not thinking, people only conversing from within their social class. A fine example of the strict conventionalism would be the character Lady Bracknell, lady of the house, the mother of Gwendolyn Bracknell and wife of Lord Bracknell. Lady Bracknell was like every upper class mother in the Victorian Era. She was looking for a man with a wealthy title and family, however, the man Gwendolyn

Victorian Ghost Stories nearly always encompass family life in some way or another. One reason for this may be to emphasize how abnormal a ghostly figure or hauntings really are within the story and get readers thinking, what would happen if that was happening to them? Making the stories feel more realistic to a Victorian readership. Family life within the era was held as one of the most important aspects of their day to day lives, therefore it is only natural for the theme of family to be present

The Victorian era was a period of great change in England in terms of social, political, and even scientific advancement. The country became highly regarded around the world, whereby London was the center of excellence and was characterized by its citizen’s high moral standards. The pressure on Englishmen to maintain a respectable persona among others was so tremendous that often reputations were damaged at the slightest deviation from social norms. Similarly to the façade of England’s perfection

time. This remains true regardless of the period in which a work was written. From the Romantic era to the 20th Century, literature has been skilled at providing understanding of others and their lives. For example, from the Romantic period works like the two William Wordsworth poems I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and The World is Too Much with Us, along with A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns. The Victorian era has its own share of works that reflect the time when it was written, including Lewis Carroll’s

      Perhaps no work of literature has ever been composed without being a product of its era, mainly because the human being responsible for writing it develops their worldview within a particular era.  Thus, with Bram Stoker's Dracula, though we have a vampire myth novel filled with terror, horror, and evil, the story is a thinly veiled disguise of the repressed sexual mores of the Victorian era.  If we look to critical interpretation and commentary to win support for such a thesis, we find

England under the Victorian Era was a fascinating place to live. The streets of London were filled with horse-drawn carriages and tightly spaced flats. Along with those, the streets were also a place for theft, sickness, and musk from the local factories. Crime was present throughout the cities. Drug use and prostitution were the highest forms of criminal behavior (Garside). Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved and well-known character, Sherlock Holmes, emerged from the Victorian Era. The people of London