Victorian Literature Quotes

'Only God, who made us rich, can make us poor' EBB, Sonnets from the Portuguese

'Kiss the Puritan' AWONI, Mrs Allonby - Mocks Religion, Ignorance of other belief

'Oh Merciful God, have pity' Tess of the D'urbervilles

‘One of them worked in a white lead factory twelve hours a day for nine shillings a week until she died of lead poisoning.’ - Mrs Warren’s Profession, George Bernard Shaw

‘Hands’ - Hard Times, Charles Dickens

'For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, Through the coal-dark, underground — Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron in the factories, round and round' - EBB

'My Little Skylark' 'My Little Spendthrift' 'My Little Squirrel' - A Doll's House

‘Four grey walls, and four grey towers’ - The Lady of Shalott, Lord Alfred Tennyson

-Imprisonment reflects oppression of women

-Colour grey reflects dull, placid lives

'There was a light with  nothing to rest upon, a fire with nothing to burn, a starved imagination' Hard Times

'And the ending is the ordinary ending. The woman suffers. The man goes free.' AWONI

' You saw nothing in Coketown. but what was completely workful' Hard Times

' Do you hear the children weeping, oh my brothers' EBB Cry of the Children

‘One of them worked in a white lead factory twelve hours a day for nine shillings a week until she died of lead poisoning.’ - Mrs Warren’s Profession, George Bernard Shaw

‘Seventy times did I console with my soul.’ - Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

-Ideas of forgiveness from God

-Dreams showing the person’s true feelings, Lockwood is in an unfamiliar place and as an outsider he feels

‘Oh! Nelly, the room is haunted!’ - Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

-Exclamatory sentences, horror and shock

-Hallucinating, hysteria-Oppression by Edgar

‘Fact, fact, fact.’ - Hard Times, Charles Dickens

-Repetition emphasises importance -Utilitarianism

Like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness’ - Hard Times, Charles Dickens

-Contrast of exotic, powerful animal compared to dull monotonous life of a

 ‘his Wessex home’ and ‘Strange stars amid the gloam.’ - Drummer Lodge, Thomas Hardy

-Contrast of humble, normal England to exotic South Africa

 -‘Strange’, unfamiliarity

 ‘The youth of America is their oldest tradition’ - A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde

-Snobbery to other nations, England is more developed