Before the Glorious Revolution of 1688, England had adopted a new military dictator to replace the monarchs from before. Cromwell’s reign was supported at first but was soon disliked as he dismissed Parliament and divided England through the formation of military districts. After Cromwell died…
Essays on British Empire
Diana Spencer was born on July 1, 1961, Princess Diana moved toward becoming Lady Diana Spencer after her dad acquired the title of Earl Spencer in 1975. She wedded the beneficiary to the British honored position, Prince Charles, on July 29, 1981. They had two…
An enduring issue is a repeated problem that has been debated over time. Sometimes, societies have to deal with issues or endure issues that they face. It is important to look back at some of the ways society has endured these issues so we can…
Most soldiers partaking in the War of 1812 did not previously have any military experience. Only a few senior officers had participated in the American War, which occurred 30 years ago, or they served in British regiments. Officially the militia was composed of all the…
Life as a soldier during the War of 1812 wasn’t simple, a British soldier had to endure many trials and tribulations during the war. Back then daylight savings time wasn’t used, which meant that British soldiers had to get up really early at 3:30 am…
In spite of the fact that she lived quite a bit of her life in the spotlight, there’s a lot most people, likely don’t think about the adored Princess Diana, from her preferred style architect to her pre-imperial working life, her preference for music to…
In a world run by social media and rising number of fashion influencers and bloggers, only a few unassailable fashion icons have survived the ravages of time and left their mark on the fashion industry. However, it can be argued that by the end of…
“I feel this is the most dangerous phase in my life.I feel he’s planning an accident in my car. Brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path.” Admired by all and known to many, Princess Diana of Wales was born on…
During the 20th century there were a lot of people that were influential in that period of time, but one of the more popular people would be Princess Diana. Princess Diana was the princess of Wales and influence people for things she did during her…
“A person without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” These were the words of Marcus Garvey a civil rights movement activist who was an integral part of events which have moulded the world we live in…
Imagine your best friend taking away all the power of your decision of where you get to eat tonight for dinner, this is like the driving force behind European Imperialism in Africa! The background behind the driving force behind European Imperialism in Africa is between…
The industrial revolution had a negative impact on the lives of the working class. The workers were being fired and they were replaced with machinery and children. The children were cheaper in costs and the machinery had the power to produce things in large quantities….
Rudyard Kipling’s 1899 poem, the white man’s burden, was written as a response to the American acquisition of The Philippines after the Spanish-American war. The poem continued and reinforced an opinion already shared with Roosevelt in Kipling’s private letters where he states, “Now go in…
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde uses humor, and the characters to personify stereotypes of the Victorian era, as well as to highlight the absurd social norms. For example, in Victorian society, the parents often arranged the marriage of their child and approval…
When christopher columbus first went sailing , he aimed to reach India but he actually did not reach India , he discovered a new continent . Columbus landed in central America in october 1492 , he stole gold , jewelry including some previously undiscovered items…
The Elizabethan era, or the Golden Age, began in 1558 when Queen Elizabeth took over the throne from Mary I; better known as Bloody Mary. The Elizabethan era was a time of change, growth and discovery. This era also brought the Renaissance, a French word…
First, we need to introduce this age the Victorian, and one of the most important point here is (the child) how they live, and why? In addition, we would write some definitions that would help us to understand our tittle here such as, the child…
Shakespeare shaped how the people of Britain viewed power and honor during the Renaissance era with Henry IV Part 1. This play had a significant role in British history and the cultural change regarding honor and power. During the Renaissance era, Britain was being heavily…
Oscar Wilde, author, and play-writer of The Importance of Being Earnest; a story of character Jack and Algernon that live a double life to live to standards while also trying to enjoy the free life away from the subjective culture. While trying to live these…
Henry VIII is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1623. Cardinal Wolsey is left in disbelief when he finds out he has lost his position as the King’s advisor. Shakespeare communicates Wolsey’s feelings by describing the reality of discovering unfortunate news in great detail….
Henry VIII could easily be called one of England’s most influential kings. He is most widely known for beheading and divorcing five of his six wives. He was in charge of the Protestant Reformation, breaking from the Roman Catholic Church, creating the royal supremacy, and…
When Henry VIII succeeded his father Henry VII in 1509, he sought to establish himself as new reformed monarch. This popular eighteen year old known for his passion for hunting and dancing was the polar opposite of his pragmatic father. Most importantly however, Henry’s greed…
Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White shows the relationship between madness and gender in the female characters of Anne Catherick and Laura Fairlie. However, although there was a larger number of female patients in the asylum, Anne Catherick and Laura Fairlie are unconventional…
King Henry was an epitome (a perfect example of a particular quality or type) of an absolute ruler. Many reasons support this. First, Henry VIII succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York and founded the Tudor dynasty….
Victorian age, as the word itself is telling us, is the period of English and world history marked by the reign of Queen Victoria, the most long-lived from all English emperors. The adopted timing of this age coincides with the years of Queen Victoria’s reign,…
Dracula converts the society’s conventions into grotesque elements. Religion is deformed by Count Dracula and used to transform women into a demonic-being. This status of fear makes ordinary people to defeat the enemy that comes from the outside, giving the fact that the Count is…
King Solomon’s Mines is a novel by the English Victorian writer Henry Rider Haggard which was published in 1885. The novel, which became a best seller in a short period of time, tells the story of a group of adventurous men leaded by Allan Quatermain…
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens was published in 1860, and is widely regarded as examplary for the Victorian Era, as the novel seems to reflect upon the great social changes which occured during that time in Britain. The Victorian Era saw great transformations for the…
During Henry VIII’s reign religious life changed significantly, both doctrinally, culturally and despite some difficulties Henry faced in the process of the implementation of change. To say that religious life changed significantly would be to encompass the idea that there was not only de jure…
What may have been one of Britain’s greatest times took place during Queen Victoria’s reign lasting from 1837 to her death in 1901. This period, commonly known as The Victorian Era, was one of great change and national confidence for the people of Great Britain….
Haggard narrates in King Solomon’s Mines the adventure of three men that appear to be three perfect examples of white manliness. However, Allan Quatermain, who is the narrator of the novel, does not act like a hero . Additionally, Haggard also includes the fear of…
“For men, love was important, but for women, it was absolutely necessary.” Great Expectations by Charles Dickens takes place in the Victorian Era, when relationships were formal, classy, and altogether proper. Victorian Era relationships were drastically different from relations in the twenty-first century. In Great…
H. Rider Haggard’s novel King Solomon’s Mines (1855) is a popular novel that sometimes has been read as an adventure story in which a white man, Quatermain, travels into unknown and dangerous territory and fight against dangerous natives. However, Zachary David Cady offers an alternative…
Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula was published in 1897 and it still stands as his greatest masterpiece. The novel could not find an immediate success but it has inspired several films and other literary pieces of work. Stoker’s intention was to explain the anxieties of his…
From the very beginning, H. Rider Haggard’s novel King Solomon’s Mines is presented as an essentially masculine novel. The story follows and depicts those aspects of the world that are of interest mostly and almost exclusively to men, according to Victorian beliefs. The representation of…
The majority of the readers of H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885) focus on the Imperialism and how white men overcome the difficulties and save Kukuanaland from the tyrant King Twala. I agree here that Haggard wants to present how men overcome difficulties in…
Nowadays the female characters have more important roles in novels than they used to, especially if the novel is all about the male figures. When thinking about a story of strong and determined adventurers, most of the times what comes to mind is the figure…
In the 19th century, Christianity suffered a decline of faith. Scientific discoveries and the publication of rational studies of the Bible as a historical book and not as God’s word, like The life of Jesus (1808-74) from David Strauss, contributed to the decrease of the…
King Henry the VIII was born in Greenwich palace in england on the 28th of june, 1491. Henry didn’t become the king until the unexpected death of his elder brother, Arthur, in April 1502. After seven years, Henry VII died, and the seventeen year old…
The character of Henry VIII of England can be represented in different ways throughout literature. It can be thought that one of the main representations was his tyrannical nature. Driving the new social revolution under Henry VIII to become political and religious, was the centralisation…
Victorian women were viewed as fragile and more qualified for family obligations as opposed to outside political and business issues. As women tried to push for a more independent lifestyle, those who opposed gender equality often argued that they served better as wives and moms…
The character of Hal is a fascinating character in this play because of how he transforms from being a conniving and cruel youth to Shakespeare’s ideal king. Hal as a young boy was very wayward. His choice of friends was not necessarily the best. He…
The Nineteenth Century was the period where Queen Victorian ruled Britain for more than 60 years from 1837 to 1901. Those years are remembered as the Victorian Age, which encircle tremendous changes for Great Britain. Change occurred in nearly every aspect of British life in…
In 1854 Florence Nightingale publicized the `miasma theory`, which was known as the bad smell theory through this theory cleanness was improved in hospitals. The introduction of anaesthetics for pain in the 19th century helped in the improvement of health services and anaesthetics is still…
The Industrial Revolution began in England. Before, England was doing well on its own, with its continuously stable government and population. It had several large iron deposits and coal near the surface, and multiple navigable rivers no more than twenty miles away. Also after the…
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from 1760 between 1820 and 1840. It was a time when many modern inventions were created. Before the Industrial Revolution took place in Britain, most people resided in rural areas and worked…
John Guy presents the idea that Elizabeth I had a second reign from 1585, with a particular focus on her councillors and her control over them impacting different areas of policy. However, it can be argued it was inevitable for Elizabeth’s aims to change due…
When reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Finn 3, the three hunting scenes and the three seduction scenes portrayed are parallel to one another. As the host goes out to hunt his game, Gawain is told to rest in the castle, on the agreement…
Grendel is one of the main antagonists in Beowulf, a descendent of Cain. Cain, in the Bible, is full of jealousy and envy and kills his brother, Abel; Grendel is a projection of this envy. Unferth is an important minor character in the poem. He…
The purpose of my paper is to explain and acknowledge what chivalry is. Aslo, how to use chivalry in many ways like in a bad way and in a good way. You have to use chivalry to be knight back into medieval times. The biggest…
Stonehenge isn’t just a stone circle. The ancient stones, weighing at an average of 25 tons each, travelled 240 km to Wiltshire from South Wales to form a massive stone monument. It is located north of Salisbury, England. Stonehenge was built roughly between 5,000 and…
Marriage — the act of uniting two beings under vows that uphold morals to honor, love and cherish for as long as both partners shall live — is undoubtedly one of the oldest traditions known to human existence. There may not be an era as…
Whereas with the Princes in the Tower the events are questioned rather than motivations, it is the opposite with Richard’s usurpation in 1483. The death of Edward IV left an atmosphere of dangerous uncertainty. His heir apparent, Edward V, was in the hands of the…
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if the Magna Carta had not been written in the year 1215? Well, according to a large percentage of historians, we probably would not even be able to vote, or we would be in war, or women…
Introduction The ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ is a novella written by Rudyard Kipling in 1888. Kipling is best known for publishing on this topic of British exploitation. This novel is narrated by the narrator, who lives in India. The story opens up with…
Introduction There have been several movies of the famous story of King Arthur in such as in the recent captivating movie titled “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” directed by Guy Ritchie. The reason for several movies based on the story of King Arthur is…
The idea of divine monarchy and rightful succession has a long history as noted in Shakespeare’s Henry V. Historically laws of Primogeniture caused problems for heirless kings and dying family lines as at the end of their rule there was no clear successor to call…
Year of Wonders is a book about religion, medicine, and how a small village of Eyam, England overcome a dreadful plague. This novel, written by Geraldine Brooks is based on true events, lasting from 1665-1666, a bubonic plague occurred in England. Anna Firth, along with…
Introduction “Well, my beloved, I say we shall not flee like the faithless Israelites!” (Brooks, 103) This was the key moment where Michael Mompellion decides for the village to stay in the tiny village of Eyam in the middle of an outbreak of the bubonic…
Ghosts, paranormal activity, and superstitions are all phenomena that are interesting to the human mind. These phenomena have an interesting origin dating all the way back to the Victorian Era. While some may say the paranormal activity is just a way to distract the human…
British Colonialism was successful in the American culture where there was successful colonization and routing out the establishment and locals for all the European and British colonies. European war was mainly independence. It was not categorized as the war between the British and Americans. It…
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…
‘Elizabeth’s foreign policy was mostly a series of disasters.’ Assess the validity of this view. Elizabeth’s foreign policy although having some failures was not a series of disasters, her policy would be more accurately described as fairly successful in achieving her aims though decreasingly so…
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…
In Elizabethan times, education was not available to the public like it is now. Wealthy children had more opportunities for an education. They could afford top scholar tutors to teach them at home, which were very expensive. There was no established free “public” system of…
“An engaging aspect of texts is that authors rarely tell their stories in exactly the same way” Compare the extent to which this statement applies to each of your 3 comparative texts. My favourite thing about studying a new book, play or novel, is that…
Before Sigmund Freud, the study of psychology was highly misunderstood and had little scientific evidence to support many of the theories that circulated within the field. Although different types of psychosis were recognized, most of the time their causes were unknown. Even nowadays, psychology is…
The British Industrial Revolution (1770 1850) changed the social and economic life of Britain. It established a completely new way of living and working. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Britain was poor, though not without some economic surplus; relatively stagnant, though not completely static; and…
The British Industrial Revolution was immensely influential in contributing to the economic development of the West. This impact was so great in part to a number of factors. Technological innovations, such as textile mills, steam power, and railway transportation, were vital to influencing trade. These…
“Henry’s greatest foreign policy success was his handling of the Breton Crisis.” Explain how far you agree or disagree with this statement. In some respects the statement is correct because Henry VII’s military decisions pressured France into signing the Treaty of Etaples in 1492 which…
A Cinematic View on the Courtship Scene Between Henry V and Katherine, Based on Shakespeare's Play
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In act five, scene two of William Shakespeare’s Henry V, the title character is trying to romantically pursue the Princess of France, Katherine (5.2.98-258). Since this play was initially meant to be performed and not read, the various interpretations of this scene are endless. In…
Collecting the French Crown When a war ends, the victor or victors claim the spoils of war—land, resources, and future alliances with other countries. In Shakespeare’s Henry V, one of the spoils of war is the hand of French princess Katherine. To win the hand…
