This PPT is based on presentation of Semester 1 submitted to Department of English, MKBU. Paper no.104 Literature of the Victorians and topic is Marriage and Divorce in the Victorian Society.
1. Name: Rajeshvariba Rana
Roll No. : 20
Enrollment No. : 4069206420220023
Semester: 1st
Paper No. : 104
Paper Code: 22395
Paper Name:Literature of the Victorian
Topic:Marriage and Divorce
Submitted to: Smt. S.B.Gardi, Department of English, MKBU
E-mail: rhrana148@gmail.com
3. Author makes it clear that Gwendolen and Cecily love,
Jack and Algernon, mainly because they believe the men
are both named Ernest. Secondly, through Algernon's
comments, Wilde suggests that marriage is the killer of
love and romance. Finally, the ending of the play
underscores the relationship between love and
forgiveness.
‘Importance of Being Earnest’
8. ‘Jude the Obscure’
In so far as marriage furnishes the " machinery " for
Jude the Obscure , the novel becomes an exploration
of the marriage contract considered both as " letter "
and as speech act . These two aspects of marriage ,
and especially the latter one , constitute the basis for
Hardy's critique of marriage as an institution . Indeed
, the unhappiness that all the main characters
encounter in their marriages is to some extent
analyzed as a consequence of the various.(Goetz)
9. " She's never found peace since she left his arms , and
never will again till she's as he is now ! " -Arabella
(Hardy)
Here we can see a woman is against woman but man
are not portrayed as women are portrayed by
Thomas Hardy.
10. After marriage , every Indian woman's
biggest fear is to deal with her mother -
in law . Some women spend so many
years of their marriage in just fighting
with toxic in laws especially the mother -
in - law . While others move into a
nuclear family set up , where they are
constantly told by everyone else that "
Tune toh ghar me aate hi ghar tod diya .
" Why is a woman the biggest enemy of
another woman ? If the mother - in - law
has been through a difficult time
dealing with her own mother - in - law
then shouldn't she be more
accommodating to her daughter - in law
?
11. Society:
Society don't accept marriage of Jude and Sue
Bridehead and they create difficulties for them. It's
also happening in present time.
12. ‘Hard Times’
Tom seems to anticipate and hope for Louisa's marriage
to Bounderby years before the event . Tom tells Louisa
that he has plans to " smooth " and " manage "
Bounderby by threatening him with the dis favor of his "
little pet , " Louisa . He makes other comments of a
similar nature . When Tom becomes aware that
Bounderby's offer of marriage is at hand , he presses
her to do him favors by giving her favors to Bounderby ,
" With her hand upon her brother's shoulder , Louisa still
stood looking at the fire. (Smith)
13. He was a rich man : banker , merchant ,
manufacturer , and not . A big , loud man , with a
stare , and a metallic laugh . A man made out of a
coarse material , which seemed to have been
stretched to make so much of him . A man with a
great puffed head and forehead , swollen veins in
his temples , and such a strained skin to his face
that it seemed to hold his eyes open , and lift his
eyebrows up . A man with a pervading appearance
on him of being inflated like a balloon , and ready
to start .(Dickens )
14. ● Marriage of Mr.Louisa and Mr.bounderby
● Tom’s Interest in her sister's marriage - Current
time
● Marriage life of Blackpool- working class
● Age difference
Elite class
16. Dickens , Charles. “Hard Times.” Google Books, Harper, 1854,
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Hard_Times.html?id=DbHGywDs--
UC&redir_esc=y.
Goetz, William R. “The Felicity and Infelicity of Marriage in Jude the Obscure.” Nineteenth-
Century Fiction, vol. 38, no. 2, 1983, pp. 189–213. JSTOR,
https://doi.org/10.2307/3044789. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.
Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. Wordsworth, 2000.
Smith, Frank Edmund. “PERVERTED BALANCE: EXPRESSIVE FORM IN ‘HARD
TIMES.’” Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 6, 1977, pp. 102–94. JSTOR,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/44372567. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.
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