Victorian America

2014 Coney Island and The Death of a Victorian America The turn of the nineteenth century brought with it a social and moral revolution that personified itself through the nations amusement parks. Standing along the banks of Brooklyn, Coney Island served as a major hub of culture, a breeding ground of refined morality, and a direct challenge to social norms as America rushed head first into a cultural revolution that thrived on challenging the typical Victorian ideals of American everyday life. The

Visit any school in America and you will find a variety of students that attend them. There are those types of individuals who are sports fanatics, nerds, mushroom heads, or any other type of personality that a typical schoolmate might have. Although these children have numerous liberties, allowing them to do a lot of whatever they want and use their imaginations as freely as they want, other children during the Victorian era, around the 1850’s, didn’t have the same or even close to equal independence

Past Antigone The Victorian period further divided men and women by establishing a sharper, stronger line between the duties of the two sexes and what was appropriate for them. Women were further oppressed by the lack of education offered to them that didn’t only involve becoming a proper wife and mother. One sphere of education that was pervasively thought of as masculine and therefore, reserved for men, was classical education. In America, it wasn’t until the mid-nineteenth century that women were

The plot of The Awakening by Mary Chopin shows Mrs. Pontellier’s journey to self-expression and personal happiness. Mrs. Pontellier has a moment of awakening, when she realizes that the way that she lives her life does not make her personally happy, and spends the rest of the novel trying to change her life for the better relentless of how the rest of the society will react to her decisions. This tension between outward conformity and the inward questioning present in the plot of The Awakening helps

Victoria from the year 1837 to the year 1901. The dominant notions of these times were moralizing, prudish, repressed and old fashion, as opposed to traditional. The above elements of culture traversed across the English society to other parts of America, influencing how people dressed and celebrated. The central ideas of Victorianism emerged during the period of early Victorianism. Significant developments during this period included science, economics, and social lifestyle. In terms of politics

Abandon Children In the Victorian era many lower-class women abandoned their children because they didn’t have a stable financial income. Majority of the kids that were relinquished, because of absence of income in a family. The few shelters existing in the Victorian culture were awful to the point that numerous kids decided to live on their own in the city. Orphans living on their own in the city would most likely make them prone to becoming criminals. There was an abundance of things that could

Ernestina is presented as obedient and demure, with an deep fear of sexuality – the ‘payment’ she would have to make to have children seemed ‘excessive’ to her, showing her attitude (and what was widely considered to be the typical Victorian attitude) to sexual activity. Finally, Sarah is the typical evil character, easily identifiable by those who read the gothic fiction of the time yet unidentifiable due to her many nicknames – ‘Tragedy’ or ‘The French Loot’n’nt’s Tenant’s Hore’. In

span of time from the Victorian age of Literature to the Modernism of the 20th century wrought many changes in poetry style and literary thinking. While both eras contained elements of self-scrutiny, the various forms and reasoning behind such thinking were vastly different. The Victorian age, with it's new industrialization of society, brought to poetry and literature the fictional character, seeing the world from another's eyes.  It was also a time in which "Victorian authors and intellectuals

Monelle Shuman English Lit 202 K. Morefield December 1, 2014 An Analysis of “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold Dover Beach is thought to be one of the best representations of the Victorian Period all together. It portrays the mood and tone of what the people experienced and felt at that time. Around the same time it was written, London had just experienced a massive boom in their population, growing from 2 to 6 million citizens. At the same time, London was becoming one of the first in the country

Feminine Influence Illustrated by Jane Eyre For centuries, equal opportunity has been established as a fundamental right, underscored by Lockean beliefs such as the right to life, liberty, and property. During the Victorian era, the ideals of the Enlightenment such as progress and liberty helped to establish a platform for this desire for equal opportunity, specifically feminism, to gain prominence, as it was hypocritical to deny rights to women while to declare the importance of universal fundamental