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    E212: British Literature since 1760 Romantic and Victorian Characteristics‚ by Al Drake Alfred Drake. Office: 423 UH | W 12-1 | ajdrake@ajdrake.com Home | Syllabus | Policies Characteristics of the Romantic and Victorian Eras in England‚ 1783-1830 British Society and Politics 1) The French Revolution‚ 1789-1814. Romantic poets and others in England at first embrace the democratic uprising‚ but later react against it when the French engage in extreme violence and try to "export" their revolution

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    English 2323 25 July 2011 Religion of the Victorian Era: Faith in Crisis “It was the best of times‚ it was the worst of times‚ it was the age of wisdom‚ it was the age of foolishness … it was the spring of hope‚ it was the winter of despair.”(Charles Dickens‚ A Tale of Two Cities) The Victorians had a society comparable to ours with an explosion of ideas and innovation. Today our American society is famous for being a “melting pot.” Each individual has a different background where they

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    statement of Niklas Luhmann “no human being is indispensible”(xiii) is reinforced by several Great men who have had many profound contributions to the United States and its Military. Three of whom prior to 1865 are George Washington‚ Winfield Scott‚ and Ulysses S. Grant. These great men have in their own times contributed a great deal of leadership and vision to the United States Military and Government. More recently than 1865‚ Dwight D. Eisenhower has risen to the level of contribution of the three great

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    Victorian Age: Science: Charles Darwin‚ Thomas Edison‚ Sigmund Freud – psychology->Human mind/motivation Religion: Empire: Technology: steam engines‚ trans Atlantic Telegraph line‚ big ships‚ railways‚ stamps‚ street lights. Mostly mobility and communication. City: Upper-class (etiquette) Middleclass (servants) lower class (survival) Nature: Art: Man: Matthew Arnold In Harmony with Nature: Stanza 1: ““In harmony with Nature” Restless fool” – The tone is set‚ he is ridiculing

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    shows her “Victorian ways” by her modest dress and polite attitude. Her job and mission in life is to make sure her family is well taken care of and provided for. She loves her family and will do whatever she needs to in order to make sure they have everything they need. Heather is a stay at home mom‚ which adds to her Victorian lifestyle even more since Victorian women were expected to stay home and tend to the house and kids all day. I think Heather would fit in well with Victorian society in

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    Victorian Era Feminism: Confined and Demeaned Imagine living in a world completely dominated by men. Imagine‚ just because of her sex‚ a woman is left powerless. Worst of all‚ imagine living a life of confinement‚ forced to be controlled by men with no chance of escape. Victorian women in nineteenth-century England lived this life. They had no respect‚ they had no power‚ and they had no freedom. In Charlotte Brontë’s‚ Jane Eyre‚ confinement of women is portrayed as the yearning to find the key

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    In the Victorian Era entertainment was the best thing. If you worked hard all day in the house or the field and you wanted relief. You would just find something to entertain you and your family. There were all kinds of things but here is the most popular one. You could go to the field and play sports or go to the field and hunt. Then you could also go to town and go to the theater. There they acted in plays and you could watch or perform. Also in theater you told listen to people tell jokes and you

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    Victorian Era Education    In the novel ​ Great Expectations​  by Charles Dickens‚ the protagonist Pip says‚ “I took the  opportunity of being alone in the court­yard‚ to look at my coarse hands and my common  boots‚”(Dickens‚ 85)​ .​  Born from a lower class‚ Pip had sense of lack inferiority regarding his  social class and opportunities for education. Although schools have always been around it wasn’t  until the Victorian era that education was improved considerably and available for all children 

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    English Weekly Lesson Plans Mrs. Dawn Johnson Third Trimester Week: May 16 - 20 English 9 English 12 English 10 Creative Writing Monday: DOL week 20 Test on The Adventures of Ulysses BOOK REPORTS DUE Monday: DOL week 20 Test on Bleachers Monday: DOL week 20 Start Julius Caesar p p. 772 lit. book‚ study guide‚ audio book BOOK REPORTS DUE Monday: Journal – What are some things you could do to improve in any area of your life: Short Stories House on Mango St. Tuesday: DOL

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    The Victorian era is considered by many to be a period of intense sexual repression‚ as expressed in Sexualities in Victorian Britain: ’the Victorians were notorious as the great enemies of sexuality; indeed‚ in Freud’s representative account‚ sexuality sometimes seems to be whatever it was that the middle-class Victorian mind attempted to hide‚ evade‚ repress‚ deny’ (Miller and Adams‚ 1996). Modern critics such as Michal Foucault have recognised that Victorian prudery is no more than a ‘repressive

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