Jill and Amelia During the Victorian Era of England (1837-1901) there were many disputes over gender roles and how they applied to women. Amelia Dyer was a trained nurse, baby farmer, and a bright intellectual staying ahead of the police and entering herself into the workhouse or the insane asylum every time the police came close to her. On the other hand we have the ever so famous story of Jack the Ripper, a well-known and feared serial killer haunting the East side of London leaving all wondering
husbands, brothers, and sons of Victorian women. However, the death did not stop after brothers fired their final shots. Due to the pre-modern medicine of the era, the life expectancy of 1850 for an American adult was just 39 years. (Bryant 569) Women of the antebellum era lived lives respected by neither death, nor their society.
to fulfill ones hopes of love in time. All these play a role in the poems, and together make it clear that fear is reasons most daunting enemy. To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell, the male narrator writes to his lover a poem expressing his bountiful affection to her, and then his fears of loosing her from passing time. The opening two lines accurately describes this: “Had we but world enough and time / This coyness, lady, were no crime” (Andrew Marvell). The narrator describes his fear of loosing
Robert Gottlieb writes that “The man Dickens...stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age” . This is certainly true in Great Expectations. Dickens used his novels to criticise the injustices of Victorian society. His novels raised awareness in the reading class of the social and economic unfairness the lower class faced
Dickens, the creative pen of the Victorian era holds a transcendent position in the literary society of the time. He is considered to be one of the greatest novelists of his times and is responsible for some of the most iconic novels in the history of literature. His genius was fully recognized by scholars and critics. Many of his works were originally published serially in monthly installments, a format of publication that Dickens himself helped popularize. Victorian England was, in Tennyson's phrase
1. Introduction Detective fiction is a relatively young genre of literature: “The idea that crime, particularly murder, provided entertainment was only born in the first decades of the nineteenth century, but it would bloom into one of the greatest mass-media interests of all time” (Worsley 17, italics in the original). In spite of its youthfulness, this genre has already developed its own rules and regulations/conventions, as well as established its own canon. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective
country. In the colonial era, the homeless were referred to as the wandering poor (Kusmer, 2002). While there had always been homeless people, the issue of homelessness didn’t become a national issue until the 1870’s. At the time, more men than women were becoming homeless and these men were forming a new breed of homeless people that were dubbed
governesses’ visions of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel lead her to confront the children, whom she fears have been possessed by the spirits of Quint and Jessel. The governesses’ descent into madness is representative of the repressive culture of Victorian Era England. Instead of the governess admitting her attraction to the children’s uncle, she bottles up her emotions until it is too much and she explodes hurting
not only the change of food that impacted Melbourne’s culture. Attitudes toward children in Australia pervious to post WW2 migration were often that they should be ‘seen and not heard’. The Italians (and Greeks) however, saw them as having a central role in the family and being an
In Henry James’ novel The Turn of The Screw, he creates bizarre events that involve ghosts and tricks. The story consists of a governess who is hired to take care of two children who belong to a man that plays their Uncle in the novel. The one instruction that he leaves the governess with is that she should never bother him if something were to ever happen to the children, but that she should take care of the problem herself. She doesn’t question this request and takes care of the children willingly