Conflict In The Victorian Era

“Literature is thought provoking; it allows us to raise questions and gives us a deeper understanding of issues and situations. " The novel Jasper Jones allows us to raise questions about today 's contemporary society. It mirrors issues in a certain historical context but also issues which are evident today. The novel not only portrays abuse of power as being one of the most important issues in the 1950’s to the 1960’s but also in the 21st century.

An archetype is an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a type of character that occurs multiple times in myth, literature, religion, or folk lore. Archetypes often provoke emotion in the reader as they awaken an image, calling illogical responses into play. Many novels, legends, and myth are made up of archetypes which causes similarities in the plots of many novels. For example, the Helper God, the golden place, seasons and metamorphosis are archetypes that make up modern literature and they make up prominent themes found within the novels containing those archetypes. Like these archetypes, the magical weapon archetype, which has only one true owner able to use it to its fullest potential, also is a prominent theme within literature and film creating a large part in the theme.

Darcy constructs a barrier between the two, which results in feelings of absolute temptation and anger. Thus, they can see each other’s love much easier than earlier in the novel. Elizabeth is portrayed as coming from a family that is inferior in rank; they inherit this stereotype through aspects of wealth, property, and marriage. On the other hand, Mr. Darcy has a social ranking of complete superiority within the society; he comes from a family that has the highest of standards among those three similar aspects of the Bennet family. In Pride and Prejudice, Austen creates a society that discriminates Elizabeth with her decision to marry Mr. Darcy.

A Doll’s house is a realistic three act play that focuses on the nineteenth century life in middle class Scandinavian household life, where the wife is expected to be inferior and passive whereas the husband is superior and paternally protective. It was written by Henrik Ibsen. The play criticised the marriage norms that existed in the 19th century. It aroused many controversies as it concludes with Nora, the main protagonists leaving her husband and children in order to discover her identity. It created a lot of controversies and was heavily criticised as it questioned the traditional roles of men and women among Europeans who believed that the covenant of marriage was holy.

These difference in the two version occurs because Westwood was shaped by the Romanticism movement in his time

Specifically, I will be using two major works of Thomas Hardy, written during these times. I chose Thomas Hardy because one of his prominent goals in his writings was to point out all the wrongs with the Victorian Era, such as women’s placement in the world, and the idea of marriage. His writings were critiques of the Victorian Era. The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Return of the Native, both by Thomas Hardy, exemplify his goal of exposing the Victorian Era’s truths and wrongs. By evaluating and analyzing these works, I intend to show what Hardy believed was wrong, and how it differs from times today.

People often view art as an important role in culture as well. Art can be broken down into many categories, whether the artist used a certain medium or uses different techniques. There are many ways to classify what are is, people consider books to be an art form, as well as poetry. First off, the American Renaissance was a period in American art, architecture, and literature that lasted roughly between 1830 and 1920. The first phase of the American Renaissance emerged as a literary movement in the 1830s.

During the 19th century, several literary movements had shaped the archetype of heroes that existed in the literature around the world. This includes Romanticism which puts emphasis on the deep emotions and feelings of the characters, instead of placing high regard on rational thinking and systematized thoughts. Some of the most notable authors that utilized Romanticism on their masterpieces where Victor Hugo, Mary Shelley, Camillo Castelo, Branco, and Lord Byron ("The Nineteenth Century, Romanticism"). Furthermore, Dark- Romanticism, which focused on the negative side of men, which is vile and sinful, was also upheld during the 1880’s. Significantly, it arose from the Transcendental Philosophical Movement that was widespread in the 19th century

Pride and Prejudice is a novel set Georgian England times focusing on the relationship between classes and the legitimacy and true reason for marriage. In the novel Jane Austen, the author, satirizes the vanity of the people during the time of the plot by outlining the fact that they get married for economic gain, are not educated about humility at a young age, and look at others flaws before their own. Charlotte and Mr. Collins relationship and marriage are used by Jane Austen to show the problems with marriages in the time of the novel. As exemplified in this marriage, women married for economic gain and stability.

The western intellectual enquiry has undergone tremendous attitudinal as well as perceptional change over the years. The modifications are necessitated by the socio-political predicament of the ages gone into the repository of the past. Innumerable movements and isms have proficiently supplied ideas and ideologies to interpret the literary text from divergent perspective. “If there is such a thing as literary theory, then it would seem obvious that there is something called literature which it is the theory of.” (1) To put it precisely, much earlier critical writings aimed at explicating the nuances which must have involved in literary production.

It is often an aspect of literature analysis to consider the historical circumstances surrounding the text. Authors are often inspired by the events and culture of their era and the ones before it. Perhaps more importantly, though, is the impact that literature can have on history. To truly understand the history of a time period, one must be familiar with the literature surrounding that time period. Through nonfiction and fiction political publications, dystopian novels, and even fictional novels for entertainment, American literature has had a significant cimpact on United States history.

One of the most popular however, is the genre of Drama ("JiffyNotes"). As was many times the case, the writers would depict their own lives as the subject of the stories they were writing. Many authors found that writing about their own lives in a fictional way, in a sense, made their problems seem fictional. Which led to the birth of many of the stories that are now considered

Journal Entry #1: Why Read? In the essay, “Why Read?” the author illustrates the meaning of reading and the benefits reading brings through the roles readers may play. To begin, the first task of readers discussed in this piece is to preserve literature’s content.