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Prompt #1: Gender Roles There are many ways that gender roles have changed and evolved in the last 50 years, let alone the past 200, yet we still find some conventions of traditional men and women’s roles still lingering in society today. The goal of this post will be to share a few of myContinue reading “Final Blog Post: Social Issues (Gender Roles)”

“The Rector” by Margret Oliphant is an example of Victorian Realism in regards to the way character’s operate within the social world and their struggle with morality, as well as the story’s representation of life as it would have most likely been like. In The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Victorian Realism is described asContinue reading “Victorian Realism and The Rector”

In “This Lime Tree Bower My Prison” by Samuel Coleridge, there are many aspects of the poem that make it distinguishable as being a part of the Romantic movement in accordance with Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads.” The first thing about the poem that strikes me as Romantic in nature is the kind of languageContinue reading “This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison and Preface to Lyrical Ballad”

Due to the context in which this novel was written, It may be hard for a class of American students in 2020 to understand various aspects of the socioeconomic and class driven culture in which Catherine Morland finds herself. The first aspect that comes to mind in which there may be a disconnect for presentContinue reading “Northanger Abbey and Present Day Readership”