In matters of character Victorians prized respectability, earnestness, a sense of duty and public service; most would have regarded an industrious, pious conventionality as the best road not only to material recompense but to heavenly rewards as well. ... The Victorian Novel Created by the new profession of "novelists," a group that now included women as well as men; printed quickly and inexpensively on the new steam-powered printing presses and distributed efficiently over the kingdom on the new railway system; welcomed as a source of moral and social instruction as well as of delight and...

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The Origin of Vampire Stories There is no doubt that stories of occult as a literary theme have enjoyed large success and popularity and that they are still generally popular. ... The vampire began to appear in English literature after 1800 and it achieved its first real literary importance with the publication of Sheridan Le Fanu's novelette, Carmilla, in 1872. ... Adèle Ratignolle, a character in Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, is another literary example of the angel in the house. ...

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The Victorian Age marked an era where a rise of oppositional creations ruled literary and social exemplifications of gender. ... A woman, deemed as a fallen one, showed signs of disregard of the set norms, expressed sexual aggressiveness, and ignored the need to be submissive to the men in her life (Gilmour 18).The theme of a fallen woman became a popular topic in literary circles during this age. ... This idea of the ideal Victorian woman was widely witnessed in various literary works of the Victorian Age. ... Even though the title of the poem alludes to the fact that it will center upon the ...

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The plays twists and turns around this theme, its characters lying in order to be "Ernest," and then discovering that because of a number of remarkable circumstances they had not in fact been lying at all. ... The play mocks this earnestness; it is the characters who do not act earnestly who are rewarded with love, and who are proven not to have been acting dishonestly at all. ... Oftentimes, these epigrams express ironic views contrary to what we would expect characters to believe. ... It pokes fun at the aristocracy, the literary world, marriage, English manners and customs, women, men, love...

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In the first few chapters Wilde introduces a two characters of extreme importance, Jack and Algernon. ... So in this way Wilde relates to the characters in the story and their deception of oneself and others. ... Often some of these sayings express ironic views contrary to what we would expect characters to believe. ... Cecily, like Jack and Algernon, has created a character, that of Jack's brother Ernest, and she has taken the motif of the delusion duel personality a step further by literally writing a correspondence between herself and "Ernest." ... It pokes fun at the English Victori...

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Stoppard gives two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet major roles. ... Possession contains many different literary exserts including letters, poems, fairytales and short stories. ... Characters are compelled to follow "the rules" of a horror film. Director Wes Craven has imitated Byatt by also incorporating parody in stereo typed characters. ... All characters are a parody of Hollywood horror film convention and like the characters in Possession set to confront the dominant way of thinking by challenging postmodernism. ...

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The female personality emphasises male characters ability to handle a situation. ... The characters mainly appear in a home whether it be Sherlock's or Dr Roylott's. ... The other characters do not have their features described in detail. ... The characters are similar if not the same as "real people" a character is turned evil in a fit of rage which happens to many people today but it may not result in an extreme like murder. ... Although Sherlock Holmes is a classic detective story and is a literary work of art I preferred the ability, given by The Lamb to the Slaughter to all...

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Stream of Consciousness Technique in To the Lighthouse and Its Function as Psychoanalysis of the Characters Everybody in the world has a story to tell and everyone has their own way to tell. In general sense, the way of telling the story is called point of view and this literary term has its subtitles which are divided for now into three groups; first person narration, second person narration, and third person narration and also these subtitles have their own subtitles. ... Virginia started with reviewing a clerical paper called the Guardian; in 1905, she started reviewing in the Times Liter...

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His characters modeling on the sense of fine feeling, plane, and classical rigorous composition and aestheticism rhythm as well as to the literary theme of transcendence. ... His characters or hesitation, or no expression, they are elegant and tired, there are few quick action, it sometimes brings to the Burne-Jones picture away from earthly fireworks beautiful atmosphere. ...

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Ibsen uses a variety of dramatic and literary techniques to demonstrate his ideas and influence the audience to take a position that views Victorian Norwegian society as limiting and does not allow women to have a voice in such a repressive community. ... Throughout Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, the themes of status and wealth are prevalent throughout and causes the characters that are in control, such as Torvald, to be seen as dominant however without a true sense of self worth, and those that are seeking some form of recognition from society, such as Nora, are perceived as being a...

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Charles Dickens' literary masterpiece, "Great Expectations," was written as a brutal commentary on the social hierarchy system during the Victorian era. ... Throughout the novel, the essentially good-hearted characters learn to live with what they have and therefore, find peace and happiness in even the harshest of life's realities. Some of these "good" characters are noteworthy; Joe, Wemmick, Herbert and Matthew Pocket. ... Allegorically, each character represents a different level of the social system and Pip's changing relationship with each of them shows the delineations b...

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Catherine, Isabella and the contradiction between the two characters C. ... On the whole, Dicken's women are not well portrayed; but from Trollope to Thomas Hardy and Henry James, a desire to present fully rounded and complex female characters can be traced. ... Haworth was known as an isolated place in the moors, so it affected Bronte's writing style, and her characters in the novel. ... In addition, Haworth affected Emily's character. ... Emily was a motherless child, so it enabled her to create motherless characters in her work Wuthering Heights. ...

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The setting for "The Man With The Twisted Lip" is the streets of London but unlike the other writers Doyle's story changes location to include the range a contrasting situations for the main character. ... Upper Swandam Lane is described as "a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves" which gives the place a criminal-like character since only bad guys lurk in dark, dirty alleyways. ... This literary device is used for emotive and figurative effect so that the reader can feel the discomfort of the cold, damp, grim and lonely atmosphere of the railway line. ...

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Many nineteenth-century critics affirm that the romantic poetry tended towards egotism and excessive subjectivity, instead the Victorian project found literary and artistic means of bridging a series of what they considered to be binary oppositions such as: self and society, personal and political, subject and objective; it is what Tennyson did in his poem, that is to say finding public uses for very private experiences without becoming egotistical, combining the romantic subjectivity with publicly accessibility and social relevance. In the first four lines of the preface, there are thre...

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