Essays on British Empire

Queen Victoria, also called Alexandrina Victoria (1819-1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and self-adopted Empress of India. She inherited the reign from her father, Prince Edward, after her three older brothers all died at a relatively young age, 18….

The introductory readings in this course described how skewed the common vision of the African continent and society is viewed by the general public. What individuals learn from an outside perspective is blatant stereotypes that do not reflect on the historical or cultural values of…

In the 1800s China was plagued by Opium being smuggling into the country from the west, people all over China had become reliant on the drug. As a result the Emperor got his commissioner Lin Tse-Hsü to deal with the opium crisis, they decided to…

London before the great plague London, capital of the United Kingdom, its population (as no census was made of London until the late 1850’s), historians worldwide estimate was surrounding the 300.000 to 400.000 people, by then one of the most populated cities in Europe, apart…

Shakespeare’s plays, Henry V (1599) and Macbeth (1623) have similar, yet different, plots. The play Henry V revolves around a young man (Henry V) who has recently been crowned King of England following his father’s (King Henry the IV) death. The issue is that the…

The year 1877 was during the Late Period of the Victorian Age from 1870 -1901. There was the decay of Victorian values during this period. The literature during this period had a generals change in attitude, some of the authors during this period openly attacked…

From the year of 1992 to the year of 2014 the amount of people that identified as non-religious surged from a mear 2% to a high 22%(Beinart). In the Victorian era the separation between church and state was non existent and this bled into the…

To What Extent is Prince Hal Portrayed as an Honorable Man in Shakespeare’s The History of Henry IV [Part One]? In today’s world, honor is not commonly considered to have the greatest amount of importance, and there are contrasting opinions on what exactly honor means…

Context in Henry IV, Part 2: “By the mass, I could anger her to th’ heart. She was then a bona-roba. Doth she hold her own well?” (III.ii.208-210) Definition: Courtesan; prostitute This word is a noun. Etymology: “Bona-roba” is a word of Italian descent. In…

Clowning In Shakespeare Psychologists say much clowning is defensive and therefore pathological. Many of the characters in Shakespeare’s plays support this notion by depicting comical behaviors in conjunction with subconscious defense mechanisms, proving that this humorous behavior is pathological. One of the most famous of…