are apt at critiquing victorian society. Yet‚ the plays are somewhat thematically different. The critiques present in The Importance of Being Earnest focus on the victorian obsession with appearances‚ whereas those in Cloud 9 have a greater emphasis on colonialism and the repression of gender and sexuality. Both works are highly relevant to the society and time in which they were published. Hence‚ although both critique victorian society‚ Churchill also discusses modern society and how attitudes have
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Oscar Wilde’s satirical depiction of Victorian Society in The Important of Being Earnest comments on the absurdity of their inability to recognize the difference between the important and unimportant. Characters in the play often make trivial matters into serious matters and vice versa‚ although there are times where issues are treated appropriately. However‚ the whole idea of what is important is subjective‚ and in a Victorian Era context‚ matters such as social status and proper etiquette were
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Christoffer Gammad Dr. Frank Fennel 4/25/2013 Out with the Old in with the New The Victorian Age transformed the minds of the people of Europe. It challenged the ideas and views they came to understand‚ it created uproars of movements and different bodies of thinking. The growth of an age can be seen through the people who’ve lived through it and how their lives have changed. England quickly became a developing world power with these movements. During the span of this semester‚ we have studied
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the expectations of our present day society.(1) Men are supposed to have a though mentality. We think of certain characteristics a man should offer to be considered a “real man”. But how did theses norms and characteristics evolve? To answer this Question this Paper will start at the Victorian Era where studies about masculinity were first in focus. The following Paper will focus on masculinity and the Perception of “manliness”. First the concept of Victorian masculinity itself and its origin shall
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In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ author Oscar Wilde criticizes the Victorian society. His characters represent the Victorian era and have twisted views on issues regarding intense emotions such as love and marriage. They do not fully appreciate these concepts and either disregard them or confuse them with emotions that lack depth. Wilde depicts his Victorian society as superficial and incapable of love that is not shallow. In his comedy‚ both women‚ Gwendolyn and Cecily‚ believe to be head over
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The Victorian Era During the Victorian Era‚ social classes of England were newly reforming‚ and fomenting. There was a churning upheaval of the old hierarchical order‚ and the middle classes were steadily growing. Added to that‚ the upper classes’ composition was changing from simply hereditary aristocracy to a combination of nobility and an emerging wealthy commercial class. The definition of what made someone a gentleman or a lady was‚ therefore‚ changing at what some thought was an alarming rate
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The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that Queen Victoria acceded the throne‚ but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age‚ more formally known‚ was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain’s literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious‚ the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable
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3 October 2012 Oscar Wilde‚ Victorian or Anti-Victorian? Oscar Wilde was a writer during the end of the Victorian era. This is one of the reasons that it is difficult‚ and still debated‚ whether he was a Victorian writer or not. His private life was far from the puritanical image of the Victorian era. The Victorian age was full of rigid sensibilities‚ while the anti-Victorian movement veered in the complete opposite direction. The anti-Victorians were much more adventurous with sex. There
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The White Man’s World (2011): ‘black and white are reciprocal entities… neither can exist without the other‚ for each is already the other’ (p. 184) - Historical debate on race in the British Empire o Brattlinger‚ Taming Cannibals‚ Race and the Victorians o Racism endemic to systemn (expansive view) o ‘Ideologies of racism and imperialism were deeply symbiotic and often indistinguishable frm each other.’ – at home and abroad o ‘Light touch’ of other historians - Others agree with Brattlinger…
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Victorian Style With the year 1837‚ England saw the beginning of its change in history. The Regency era had ended as England’s new Queen‚ 18-year-old Victoria took the thrown. This new era is mostly known as the beginning of the Victorian era‚ which was obviously named after the reigning monarch‚ Queen Victoria. She was one of the first monarchs to see her name given to the period while she was still alive. She reigned from 1837 until she died in the year 1901‚ which marked the end of the
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