In 1895, her mother died and Virginia suffered her first breakdown. Her sister, Stella married but she died on her return from her honeymoon. Her father died in 1904 and Virginia had a second breakdown. ... Ramsay died suddenly. ... In the last chapter, "To the Lighthouse", time flow is very similar to the first chapter with regard to slow details and shifting points of view. ...
This research paper investigates how Catherine stands against Victorian male-dominant society, and how Isabel reflects traditional gender role for women. ... Another incident, narrated in a matter-of-fact way by a boy who was himself only told about it by someone else, describes how the ghosts of Heathcliff and Cathy walk across the moors after their deaths. ... The tragic outcome to the novel is inevitable, but unique imaginative power, was Emily Bronte's only novel, for she died the year after it was published at the age of 30. ...
Actually, this philosophical meaning matches with some ancient vampire stories and their protagonists, but nevertheless, the following chapters focus on the anthropological meaning of alterity – the social construction of "cultural others." ... Sheridan Le Fanu himself summarizes the historical backgrounds of vampire phenomenon in Carmilla: "You have heard, no doubt, of the appalling superstition that prevails in Upper and Lower Styria, in Moravia, Silesia, in Turkish Servia, in Poland, even in Russia; the superstition, so we must call it, of the Vampire. ... In the following c...
Reclusive after Albert died in 1861, she eventually took on the austere role of the black-satined Empress of India, projecting a world-weary glumness that lent gravity to the imperial heyday of the 1870s. ... When Victoria died in 1901, after the longest reign in English history, a newspaper wrote: "Few of us, perhaps, have realized till now how large a part she had in the life of everyone of us; how the thread of her life [bound] the warp of the nation's progress." ... "We have come to regard the Crown as the head of our morality" wrote the historian Walter Bagehot. ...
