Sökning: "Victorian Society"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 39 uppsatser innehållade orden Victorian Society.
1. Cultural Clash and Gender Roles : Exploring the Quest for Equality in Jane Eyre and Things Fall Apart
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to analyze the intersectionality between themes of cultural clash and gender roles within the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, accentuating their common quest for equality. This essay offers a historical and cultural analysis, divulging the gender norms prevalent in Victorian England and pre-colonial Nigeria, serving as a backstage to the characters’ adaptations and struggles. LÄS MER
2. Serious Triviality : A Serious Societal Critique in a Trivial Setting in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : In the late Victorian era, the British upper-class seemed to have set up their own standard of morals where truthfulness and religious conviction gave way for manners and appearance. Oscar Wilde was an outspoken socialist and talented author who shared his critique towards the ills of this society within his literary works. LÄS MER
3. "For the pleasure of your company" : En adaptionsstudie av TV-serien Raffles
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)Sammanfattning : This thesis examines how the aesthetic and queer themes in E. W. Hornung’s Raffles stories have been transmediated in the TV-series Raffles. Hornung’s Raffles stories were not only immensely popular in their time, but were also a reflection of the fin-de-siècle and of the cultural role aestheticism played in the late Victorian society. LÄS MER
4. Educators´ perspective on education for sustainable development in childcare centers in Victoria, Australia
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk professionSammanfattning : Aim: The purpose of this research thesis is to describe practices used by childcare centers in the Australian state of Victoria, as well as to understand educators' attitudes, knowledge, and needs regarding ESD. This research thesis seeks to answer the following question: What are the practices, attitudes, knowledge, and needs of early childhood educators in ESD in State of Victoria? Theory: This study's conceptual framework was built on a mix of theories, including Deweyan theory, which focuses on the development of student knowing, being, and doing, and critical theories, which focus on reflective assessment and critique of society and culture in order to reveal and challenge underlying power structures and inequalities. LÄS MER
5. An Ecocritical Analysis of Oscar Wilde’s A House of Pomegranates : Human- Nonhuman Interactions in the Fairy Tales
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : Abstract This thesis investigates the interactions between human and nonhuman characters that express a particular concern regarding nature and the environment in Oscar Wilde's four fairy tales in A House of Pomegranates. The author utilizes a significant number of nonhuman characters to communicate with humans, which is a fairy-tale convention in which truth wins over falsehood, kindness is rewarded, and virtue triumphs over evil. LÄS MER
