London and Victorian era
Case study - 3 pages - Ancient history
London, became a true metropolis integrated into the global economy that dominates, then place over the century as a true center of the world, political capital of the largest empire the world that wish to exhibit his power. The Victorian era is characterized by the height of the...
The water babies, Victorian literature and the depiction of childhood
Thesis - 13 pages - Literature
The social hierarchy of Victorian England perpetuated the involvement of the working class in poverty driven crime and with regard to the concurrent impact on children; Duckworth comments that “Crime and poverty were inseparably associated and most of the young who suffered gaol...
Bleak House - Charles Dickens (1852) - Examination of Dickens's Social Commentary on Poverty and the Class System
Text commentary - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The dense, gloomy fog in the first scenes of this novel by Charles Dickens symbolizes more than just the physical weather; it stands as a profound metaphor for the dark and fog-shrouded Victorian era, with fog so thick one cannot see and no lodestar to follow. The use of such a...
Jane Eyre and the struggle to reconcile societal expectations
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
In the Victorian era, the essential aspect of a woman's life revolved around her family's domestic sphere and the home she came from. Women from the Middle class were raised to be innocent and pure, sexually undemanding and tender and obedient and submissive. They were presented in...
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë (1847) - How important is time in the work of Charlotte Brontë?
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
The novel was published in 1847 under the male pseudonym of Currer Bell. The historical context is the Victorian era, during which the British Empire was at its height with possessions all over the world. The literary context of the work coincides with the beginning of the Romantic...
The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II - Oscar Wilde (1895)
Text commentary - 3 pages - Literature
'As a man sow, so shall he reap': a biblical saying that Miss Prism, as a good Christian, must have been taught at church. But to feel righteous, it is not enough to utter it as she does when reacting to the tidings of Jack's brother's death, it also takes to apply it personally....
The Elephant man - David Lynch (1980) - Disabilities in popular culture
Artwork commentary - 1 pages - Film studies
In this movie, we follow the life of Joseph Merrick, an Englishman who lived in the 19th century afflicted with Proteus syndrome. He was exhibited as a circus animal, a common practice then known as 'human zoos'. This film delves into the perception of disabilities such as Proteus...
The Victorian Period (1837-1901)
Worksheets - 3 pages - Modern history
The adjective ‘Victorian', often appended to words to describe a way of life, thought, culture and politics, sprang from the reign of Queen Victoria, who ruled over Great Britain from 1837 to 1901. She was the longest reigning monarch in British History. The Victorian period...
Victorians' view on the Empire
Summary - 2 pages - Medieval history
In this essay, we are going to study Victorians' view on the Empire. We are first going to study how the Empire was an emblem of soft power and how it used different means to earn the population's approval, then how the same Empire represented economic instability and inequality...
Exploring conflicting meanings of the child in Lewis Carroll's Victorian classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Thesis - 4 pages - Literature
The construction of childhood in Victorian England helps lend a context to the meaning(s) of Lewis Carroll's children's classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This short paper will examine the emergence of ‘childhood' as a new category, beginning in the late 18th century, expanded...
A comparison between "Wuthering Heights" and "Great Expectations"
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
In the Victorian era, there were many novels written about love and its consequences. Romantic love, particularly in this time period, is often characterized by the works of Emily Brontë and Charles Dickens, especially in the novels Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations. While...
The Great Scramble: European Anxiety and the Division of Africa
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
In the high Victorian era, the Great Powers of Europe were suddenly struck with what initially seemed a inexplicable fever to divide among themselves an entire continent about which they knew remarkably little. Although some of the colonies subsequently formed became very...
Social Media as a Strategy for Protest Movements in an Era of Government Control - Hong Kong And Sudan Case Studies
Dissertation - 11 pages - Sociology & social sciences
By facilitating instantaneous global communication among geographically dispersed audiences, digital media has fundamentally altered information production and dissemination processes. As a result, more people are able to access information and news, which may be a powerful instrument for...
Sexuality as a social tool
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines sexuality as a) the quality and state of being sexual, b) the condition of having sex, c) sexual activity, and d) the expression of sexual receptivity or interest especially when excessive, and it cites the first use of the word around1800. Human beings...
Butterfly or Bumblebee?: The Sting of Satire in The Importance of Being Earnest
Thesis - 5 pages - Literature
Oscar Wilde said that his play, The Importance of Being Earnest, subtitled “A Serious Comedy for Trivial People” was “written by a butterfly for butterflies” (qtd. in Stokes 115). Although this statement may be true, the subject of the play itself, while treated in a...
Protogeometric Epoque era and Geometric era(tenth century - eighth century BC)
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
In the Geometric period, the city developed considerably, new neighborhoods are created, such as the future of the theater district, for example, probably to meet the needs of a growing population again, also in the north, a new neighborhood is built beyond the sacred lake and bordering the...
Forming and performing the female identity in Daniel Deronda
Essay - 8 pages - Literature
The Victorian era thrived on ideals; knowing their world is more than knowing the facts of British politics, of documented interactions, or popular amusements, it is striving to understand the light in which they saw themselves, the real or ideal roles society endeavored to fulfill....
A Comparison of the Music from the Baroque Era and the Nineteenth-Century Era
Case study - 4 pages - Music and dance
The Baroque Era of Music lasted from about 1600 to 1750 and was known for its very fancy and complicated style. Baroque Music often had complex polyphonic patterns, which meant that different melody lines intertwined and complemented each other. Some ornaments, like trills, mordents, and...
Book review: American Africans in Ghana: Black era Expatriates and the legal civil Rights Era
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
The book; American African in Ghana was written Kevin Gaines and published by Chapel Hill publishers, at the University of North Carolina. The book emphasizes on the interconnections between the African studies and African American studies by introducing, in its broad chapters the context of...
HRM Practices in Post-bureaucratic Era
Essay - 3 pages - Human resources
The history of human resource management (HRM) dates back in the 19th C, when the then called “welfare secretaries” came to existence in organizations. These welfare secretaries were women solely concerned with the protection of girls and women. Their establishment was triggered by the...
Lesbians and butch-femme relationships
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Homosexual relationships have existed since the beginning of time, however, acceptance of such relationships in the modern era has not been so forthcoming, as was the welcoming atmosphere in ancient Greece. Lesbianism appeared to be a somewhat accepted practice until Victorian...
Portrayal of Women in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Horror stories are known to be misogynistic in their portrayal of women; Bram Stoker's Dracula is no exception. The novel offers a stereotypical, character archetype of the female in various forms: Mina Harker, Lucy Westenra, and the Succubi. The women are used to embody ideas and values of the...
Dracula and Fear of Female Sexuality
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
Bram Stoker's Dracula is undoubtedly one the most consciously sentient and hyperbolic literary incarnations of the excessive fear of women's sexuality that still survives with a vast legitimacy for its content today. Much like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein the novel is satiated with the fear of the...
Stephen Crane and the Red Badge of courage
Essay - 6 pages - Literature
Born in 1871 to a Methodist preacher and social leader, Stephen Crane started his short, but compelling life in the Civil War torn society that was America- or more specifically, Newark, New Jersey. His parents held a belief, commonplace in their era, that valued God, acknowledged free...
Religious ambivalence: Geology and the Victorian crisis of faith
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Edmund Burke wrote, “There is nothing so fatal to religion as indifference.” If religion were the driving force in pre- and early Victorian society, indifference and confusion would have been the contenders of its power. Religion, a societal stabilizer, political voice, and moral...
Analysis: Catherine Hall on Victorian domestic ideology
Thesis - 3 pages - Literature
This chapter by Catherine Hall examines one particular factor she identifies as being crucial to the creation of the Victorian middle-class ideal of womanhood. Since the “angel in the house” was already established as a precept by the 1830s and '40s, the author seeks farther...
Era to Era: The NBA's evolutionary debate
Case study - 7 pages - Sports
Is it a basketball blasphemy to think that Kobe Bryant or LeBron James are better than Michael Jordan? Then again, what makes it so that Jordan is untouchable? Of course one cannot doubt his undeniable athletic ability and unparalleled knowledge of the game of basketball. Certainly the era...
Individualism and Alienation during the Romantic Era
Case study - 1 pages - Philosophy
The Romantic Era was a time when artists and writers placed a high estimate on human potential. Striving for individualism became an initiative as writers of the Romantic Era continued to break out of the mold and challenge the parameters of creativity. Among writers there arose a...
Proto-capitalism and the Edo to Meiji Era transition
Thesis - 8 pages - Political science
In 1868, the Tokugawa Bakufu that had ruled Japan since its creation in 1603 came to an end, ushering in a new era known as the Meiji Restoration. This new era would see massive industrialization in Japan, modernization, and an influx of all things Western. To the West, and indeed...
The Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society: a comparative study
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
The Jeffersonian idea that liberty and equality would be best achieved by everyman pursuing his own interest and a federal government with greatly constrained powers is often seen as America's traditional political philosophy. During the 20th century, three periods of government activism...
