Societal Norms In The Victorian Era

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1twtYoqJjB2v5b_wC87fSq87fpEdfmHaFGY3VBqJwPLQ/ediThe early 1900s are known as a time in history where there was a massive change in cultural views which had led to rash and progressive changes in women’s rights along with the creation of mass produced apparel and cosmetics. This period however pale in comparison to those radical changes of today's society and it is clear that twenty-first century concepts of women's rights , marriage legislation and various other topics which had once been considered taboo are much more accepted and widely discussed. Throughout the start of the 1900s, the United States had just come out of World War 1, where there had been conscription along with the ratification of the 18th Amendment. This had been one of the first

Male privileges is a set of privileges that are given to men as a class due to their institutional power in relations to women as a class. In the case of Luscious Lyon (Terrance Howard) who stars as the main character embodies great power. Partially being so that he is the head of the house hold as well as the bread winner. He is highly respected by his family and those around him. Unlike his ex-wife Cookie who take the inferior role of her ex-husband.

of Season 9 he is called, “a complex man”, suggesting that their is more to Booth than his appearance. However, he also represents a male who is successful with women, but in chivalrous way. He is a man most women expect to find; a man who can switch from being very manly and athletic a second to being a strong overprotective hero the next. 3. Throughout the television series, Agent Seeley Booth seems like a very confident and cocky man, who would mostly fit the category of a ‘player’ if it wasn’t for his really mature and religious attitudes.

Franklin is considered a successful man because he worked his way from poor to a great journalist, public affair man, and even a political person. He was able to accomplish them through a series of experiences as a male, without the need of religion. While Wheelwright is the successful woman she is considered today because of the languages she learned, the cultures she was apart of and the nun she became. Which is something that women in that day and age could never experience as just a female, and she experienced it because of religion and war. Both influential individuals lived lives that are considered outstanding and influential during their time of existence, and those experiences helped them outline life in that time and the boundaries

In 1912, the difference between upper and lower class was very distinctive and noticeable to everyone in that society. The upper class were sophisticated, traditionally intelligent and had recognisable titles for other classes to identify them and to give themselves pride ,although the lower class usually worked cheap labour and struggled greatly to have a decent quality of life. In An Inspector Calls, the Birling family represent a typical upper class family but they are still aware of Gerald’s families status above them and Priestley represents the character of Arthur Birling to be very mindful of this and his ambition is portrayed in many ways throughout the play. Arthur Birling addresses the lower class as “these people” when talking about the issues with Eva Smith, this represents his capitalist views as he does not believe that a man like himself, a “hard-headed businessman”, should be looking after the poorer members of society.

In terms of gender and power, I think that the writers and producers have stuck with the societal stereotype of men being the more powerful characters. House, M.D. aside, we live in a society where men hold the power and are able to gain power much more easily than women. Women tend to have far more barriers to getting power. Take a look at Hillary Clinton for example.

Because of his extraordinary traits, the great King Henry V successfully led his small army of men to such victory from the great French in the Battle of Agincourt. King Henry’s self-discipline, reflective to his commitment to kingship, had continuously led him to great virtues that ultimately influenced his knights to become true men of chivalry. Aristotle from Book II Moral Virtue “We describe as opposed to the mean those things in which we are more prone to over-indulgence; thus profligacy, which is excess, is more opposite to the mean than its corresponding deficiency is.” It is in fact natural for humans to be obsessed with ideas or things but in the end it will only weigh a person down. Luckily, people can be trained to end bad habits.

Not only were the 1920s stereotyped as a whole, but women we hugely stereotyped. Many men only wanted the women in their lives to be hostage to the home, be the perfect house wife and birth children. The Feminist movement among this time was greater than it had been before. Women had worked hard to be able to evolve in a time where man, especially the white man, was superior to everyone else. The 1920s was new start for women.

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria 's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Defined according to emotional response and political concerns, the period is sometimes considered to begin with the passage of the Reform Act 1832. The period is characterized as one of relative peace among the great powers, increased economic activity, "refined sensibilities" and national self-confidence for Great Britain. The Victorian era witnessed resistance to the rationalism that defined the Georgian period and an increasing turn towards romanticism and mysticism regarding religion, social values, and arts. In international relations, the supremacy of the Royal Navy helped maintain a

This short story wants to highlight the important role of Empresses or Empress consorts in the Late Antiquity. Although they had no direct military power, their influence on the politics of 5th century can’t be underestimated. They had a great influence on their male family members, who often were blamed to have no back bone. Empresses of the late antiquity gradually achieved a great deal of autonomy and exerted influence akin to co-rule, an unheard concept for women in ancient Greece and Rome or in any Western medieval state. First, a cursory glance at the pattern of their prominence.