Can anyone please give me a book or poem that has the theme of morality, upper class folk, women, or repressed sexuality in it? and please can it be from the victorian time period.. thanks!!
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Can anyone please give me a book or poem that has the theme of morality, upper class folk, women, or repressed sexuality in it? and please can it be from the victorian time period.. thanks!!
Can't think of one right now, but I believe the Ingmar Bergman film Cries and Whispers fits quite a few of those criteria, so I'd recommend that if you're open to watching films as well. Sorry that I wasn't really helpful in addressing your request directly, but I couldn't help but think that the fim may interest you.
The themes of morality and upper class folk are very common in Victorian literature. You might try Thackeray (e.g. Vanity Fair) or Dickens (often upper/middle class versus working class). Morality and women are also themes in George Eliot's novels (e.g. Middlemarch). I've been racking my brain for the theme of repressed sexuality but all I've been able to come up with is a poem by William Blake (The Garden Of Love), and he's pre-Victorian.
Hope I could help you a bit. :)
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Bronte sisters any good? Wuthering Heights springs to mind. And although Emily died before the end of Victoria's reign she was writing during the period of Victoria's monarchy. Charlotte or Anne might also be good? Good luck. If you need anything on art and Victorian morality, I can def be of help there!!
I have the perfect book for you:
My Secret Life- Walter
From the Publisher
This masterpiece of Victorian manners and morals qualifies as literature as well as classic erotica.
It's hard to find. I stumbled upon it in a used books shop and paid $3 for it.
If you looking to apply Freudian criticism, this is the book for you.
Go to Oscar Wilde and read the Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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YES!! i need help on that please!! the art and morality stuff! please if you could help me on anything about it.. thanks!!
Something spooky going on here. Got a double post, prob me.
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Also see your PM for info on Wm. Holman Hunt's 'The Awakening Conscience' lots of info on that work on the web. Kate Flint does an excellent analysis of the work and also touches on Agustus Egg's 'Past and Present' a triptych recording the downfall of a society woman who 'allowed herself' to be seduced and her decline into prostitution and death by drowing (drowning was the proper way for a woman to die in victorian times...). Also check on John Ruskin cultural critic of the time and major proponent of Holman Hunt's work. He gives great insight into 'victorian values' which would prob work in with Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'. Luck! :thumbs_up
"Intrusions of Peggy" - Anthony Hope.