Culture Quotes
Quotations and their analysis on the theme of culture in the Victorian era for use in the context part of the exam.
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- Created on: 09-04-14 08:43
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- CULTURE
- PROSE
- Ruskin, ‘Fiction,
Fair and Foul’
- “Summer and winter
are only alternatives of heat and cold”
- Industry has made nature lose its beauty and inspirational value (hyperbole)
- “In the “Modern city… the sense of art is forbidden
forever”
- Alliteration emphasising the continuity of the split between nature (inspiration) and the city
- “Summer and winter
are only alternatives of heat and cold”
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (end of era)
- Sybil calls Dorian "Prince Charming"
- In contrast to his amorality representing the falseness of Victorian society and culture
- "An artist should create beautiful things"
- Art contributes nothing but beauty, shallowness of Victorian culture
- Sybil calls Dorian "Prince Charming"
- Ruskin, ‘Fiction,
Fair and Foul’
- PLAY
- AWoNI
- Hester: ‘your English society seems to me shallow,
selfish, foolish’
- American perspective, sibilance
- Lady Caroline: ‘one never met anyone in society
who worked for their living.’
- Double standard of class, working class inferior because they must work
- Hester: ‘your English society seems to me shallow,
selfish, foolish’
- AWoNI
- POETRY
- Tennyson, 'The Lady of Shalott'
- "Shadows of the world appear"
- Sees the world only through shadows on her mirror similar to how Victorian women look to their husbands to experience (symbolic / metaphor)
- “‘The curse is come upon me!’”
- Breaks the mirror (symbolic - of women breaking free of their stereotypical confinement and transgressing their natural place) she is punished = fallen women
- “Tis the fairy /
Lady of Shallot”
- trapped in another world (entrapment of Victorian women)
- Idealised as a 'fairy' by the lower classes
- "Shadows of the world appear"
- Tennyson, 'The Lady of Shalott'
- PROSE
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