Essays on British Empire

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The Great Lincoln Castle

1 page / 681 words

Many people visit Lincoln Castle and look around thinking “o It’s just another boring castle, however, It’s more than just a castle. How do you know what people think? Lincoln Castle has a really cool and intriguing history. Lincoln Castle’s history consists of lots of...

British History

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Comparison Between Greece’s Parthenon in Athens and England’s Stonehenge in Wiltshire

1 page / 452 words

Comparison of Sacred Spaces The two sacred architectural wonders analyzed in this assignment are the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, and Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. This decision stems from my ever-growing fascination with both countries of origin of the two constructions that will be discussed in...

Stonehenge

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Review of The Ancient Stonehenge

4 pages / 1674 words

Stonehenge is one of the worlds best known monuments of the ancient times. Stonehenge stood for over five thousand years, and still we do not know the full use of this mysterious arrangement of stones. Stonehenge remains asan ancient monument that still propose mysteries to...

Stonehenge

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The Industrial Revolution in Britain: an Epoch of Innovation and Change

2 pages / 1061 words

The Industrial Revolution, often regarded as a turning point in human history, marked a profound shift in the way societies produced goods and organized labor. The industrial revolution essay aims to explore the sweeping changes that took place in Britain during the late 18th and...

British Industrial Revolution Great Britain

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The First and The Second Boer War

3 pages / 1181 words

The Boer War The Boer war is split into two parts; The First Boer War, and The Second Boer War. These wars are referred to in many ways. “For the British they were the Boer Wars, for the Boers, the Wars of Independence.”1 Many Afrikaners...

Boer War British History

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Woman Question at The Victorian Times

1 page / 448 words

Victorians were very much concerned with the roles assigned to gender in society, particularly those roles that were customary for women. From this concern and fascination, the “Woman Question” arose, a debate that touched on issues of sexual inequality in politics, economic life, education, and...

Victorian Era Woman

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Victorian Novel Analysis: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

3 pages / 1412 words

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. Made-to-order...

Jane Eyre Victorian Era

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A Study of The Four Rebellions in England

3 pages / 1548 words

Four main rebellions happened in the years 1549 to 1571; the Western and Kett’s Rebellion during the reign of Edward VI, Wyatt’s Rebellion during Mary I’s reign and finally the Northern Rebellion under Elizabeth I. Mary’s succession in 1553 is considered by some historians to...

British History Rebellion

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Guarding The Forbidden Fruit: a Young Girl Clings to Her Virginity and Innocence

2 pages / 1134 words

The narrator of Thomas Campion’s “There Is a Garden in Her Face” warns fellow admirers of a young girl’s beauty against taking advantage of her virginity. As indicated in the title, Campion uses words associated with gardens to describe the girl’s beauty; upon closer examination,...

Elizabethan Times Poetry

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A Life of Flawed Virtue in The Vicar of Wakefield

2 pages / 948 words

Introduction In The Vicar of Wakefield, although Charles Primrose portrays almost flawless virtue, he retains two major flaws, pride and obstinacy, which lead to many complications in his family’s life. The Primrose family suffers from the retribution of these flaws until they are finally purged...

Novel Victorian Era

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Infidelity in Victorian England: Double Standards Based on Gender and Class

6 pages / 2553 words

Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wild fell Hall is a novel in which the plights of the female protagonist overlap with the issues faced by the majority of women in the Victorian Era of England. The book raises questions of the Brontës’ family’s sisters own...

Novel Victorian Era

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Societal Shifts in The Victorian Era: Marriage, Men, and Domesticity Analyzing Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

4 pages / 1758 words

The Victorian Era is defined by the societal alterations that developed over the time period. This is particularly true when concerning wives, mothers, domesticity, and the like. Throughout portions of Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall the relationship between Helen and her aunt, Peggy...

Novel Victorian Era

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Hieronimo’s Transformation in The Spanish Tragedy

2 pages / 986 words

By the thirteenth scene of Act III in Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the character Hieronimo has finally emerged as a major character and transformed significantly. He has gone from a commendable subordinate of the King, to a grieving father, to a man on the...

Elizabethan Times

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Psychoanalysis of The Lancelot Character in T.h. White’s "The once and Future King"

4 pages / 1893 words

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” Vladimir Nabakov often told stories of men and women destroyed by unknowing forces and desires driving them to madness....

Fantasy King Arthur

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Gender Roles in The Mill on The Floss

4 pages / 1598 words

Mary Ann Evans, born in Warwickshire, England, wrote the novel The Mill on the Floss during the Victorian era of 1859 under the pseudonym George Eliot. In keeping the Victorian mindset, the novel encompasses many stereotypes of gender roles for its main characters. Evans received...

Novel Victorian Era

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The British Views of Colonialism and Its Celebration of Colonial Heroes

2 pages / 891 words

Colonialism in a country is understood to be horrific as foreign powers invade, conquer and occupy a nation. Some colonists commit crimes with impunity against the people. Despite the governing institutions dismantling and being replaced by the absolute rule of the colonizers, the majority of...

British History

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Film Adaptations of Arthurian Legends

7 pages / 3071 words

Film adaptations which are centered upon the Arthurian legend go as far back in the early times of the medium itself and talk to the endless appeal of the characters in a story and the story itself. In a typical Arthurian work, a mixture of...

King Arthur

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The Treaty of Waitangi

2 pages / 1106 words

History The Treaty of Waitangi, often referred to as the founding document of Aotearoa New Zealand. Signed on 4th February 1840, the treaty formalized the relationship between Maori and the Crown (Kingi 2007). The Treaty of Waitangi consisted of 5 parts namely: the preamble, 3...

British History Colonialism Phenomenon

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"Just and Sharp Revenge": The Question of Underworld Justice in "The Spanish Tragedy"

4 pages / 1647 words

“‘Send him,’ quoth [Minos], ‘to our infernal king, / To doom him as best seems his majesty” (1.1.52-3). Nestled in the lengthy opening monologue by Don Andrea, these lines introduce the overarching question that Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy seeks to answer – the question...

Elizabethan Times Justice Revenge