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Boer War, British History, British Industrial Revolution, Charles I, Elizabethan Times, Henry Iv, King Arthur, King Edward I, Stonehenge, American Revolution, Civil Rights Movement, French Revolution, Great Depression, Industrial Revolution, 20 Years From Now, Alexander Hamilton, Cesar Chavez, Colonialism, Harriet Tubman.
The first few books of Daniel Deronda focused on Gwendolen Harleth, who shines as a self-centered, domineering young woman. In becoming trapped by marriage to Grandcourt, she develops growing fascination with Daniel, an attraction that began with their encounter in the opening pages of the book. Daniel’s influence on Gwendolen causes her to evolve her … Read more
The Odd Women, by George Gissing, is a story that centers upon the decisions that people make in life and the outside factors that influence these decisions. Gissing looks at the situations of five different women and utilizes their lives to make observations about both the women themselves and the Victorian society in which they … Read more
“ Charlotte Bronte wrote the victorian novel Jane Eyre with the intention to tell the story of how a seemingly mere governess, Jane Eyre, managed to challenge the notion of what a conventional woman during the victorian era was capable of accomplishing with sheer courage. Jane tells her story through a strong narrative voice which … Read more
“ Charlotte Bronte wrote the victorian novel Jane Eyre with the intention to tell the story of how a seemingly mere governess, Jane Eyre, managed to challenge the notion of what a conventional woman during the victorian era was capable of accomplishing with sheer courage. Jane tells her story through a strong narrative voice which … Read more
In Charles Dickens Bleak House, Chancery is portrayed as a disease that plagues the Victorian society. Dickens uses the suits and the lawyers of Chancery to display its effects on the whole society. The suits are “slow, expensive, British, constitutional kind of things” (25) that stifle and bemuse those that come in contact with them. … Read more
