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Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post What’s the most interesting thing you’ve learned about Victorian literature this semester? in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 3 months agoWhen first entering this course, I had no clue what Victorian Literature was nor the history behind the Victorian era and its common theme romance. Little to my knowledge was I aware that I had read a couple of […]
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Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post Incestuous love: The case of the forbidden love in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoIn Wuthering Heights, we are introduced to Heathcliff who is adopted into the Earnshaw family. Although Catherine Earnshaw was not fond of his presence in the beginning, she did begin to have a hold on Heathcliff […]
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Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post Jailbird Blues in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoFrom what I’ve gathered in both the texts, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, is that the speaker is being kept inside of jail cell. However, I believe that this ‘jail cell’ is a […]
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Ashley Contreras commented on the post, Chapter 58, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 4 months ago[Many pleasant pictures of the life that I would lead there, and of the change for the better that would come over my character when I had a guiding spirit at my side whose simple faith and clear home wisdom I had […]
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Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post Love is an orphan in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoWe gain insight from orphans throughout a series of texts such as; “Great Expectations”, “Wuthering Heights”, and “The Chimney Sweeper”. What each orphan has in common is the lack of love they receive from […]
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Ashley Contreras commented on the post, Chapter 33, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 4 months agoAs they grow apart from their childhood memories and grow into the adolescent stages of life, they begin to grow out of childhood personas and create new ones through experiences. Does Estella remind Pip of […]
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Ashley Contreras edited the blog post A series of unfortunate events in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoIn “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, as Pip grows up, we start to see a change in his personality. We also start to see how social class is significant during this era and a popular topic in Victorian […]
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Ashley Contreras edited the blog post An Orphanage of compassion in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 5 months agoLooking at Chapters 1-3 of Great Expectations, we can see some similar alignments with Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and P[hil]ip, the main character in Great Expectations, Pip, as he calls himself due to […]
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Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post The World is Our Kingdom, but Do We Know the Players? in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 5 months agoIn Darwin’s, “On the Origin of Species”, it says, “all organisms start from a common origin. If we look even to the two main divisions—namely, to the animal and vegetable kingdoms—certain low forms are so far […]
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Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post The Inheritance of Love and Revenge in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 5 months agoWe see how these star-crossed lovers (Heathcliff and late Catherine)have marked their love history and how it seems to repeat now with the Young Catherine (heir to the late Catherine) and Linton (heir to […]
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Ashley Contreras edited the blog post Confinement within their oppression in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoIn Wuthering Heights, we can see the abuse that Heathcliff projects onto Hareton and Linton when he uses his revenge from all the other people around him treated him poorly. For example, Hareton, Hindley’s son, […]
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Ashley Contreras commented on the post, Chapter 18, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 6 months agoThis reminds me of the phrase, “history is meant to repeat itself” because we have young Catherine finding a liking to her cousin, Hareton, who despite not being the biological son of Heathcliff, is raised by him. […]
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Ashley Contreras edited the blog post Wuthering Heights (Chap. 1-9) — Make A Connection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoTo begin, enter Mr. Lockwood, a new tenant of Mr. Heathcliff. Their relationship is not at all the best and you can feel the tension between the two. Mr. Lockwood, upon his arrival, meets Nelly, one of the […]
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Ashley Contreras commented on the post, The Chimney Sweeper, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 6 months agoIn the Victorian era, children were known to become chimney sweepers. I believe the speaker is displaying a picture of a child covered in soot amongst the ice-cold snow. The speaker cries out that due to the […]
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Ashley Contreras edited the blog post Make a connection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoIn SOCIETY IN AMERICA, Harriet Martineau brought some issues that dealt with women’s rights and lack of freedom in government laws, policies, and their own freedom. This passage mostly referred to the government […]
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Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post What do you hope to learn about Victorian literature this semester? in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoWhen adding this course, I had no clue what Victorian Literature was. What I hope to learn by the end of this semester is the [historical] context behind what makes these different pieces, victorian […]
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Ashley Contreras replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum
Nineteenth-Century Studies 3 years, 6 months agoI don’t have a favorite work of Victorian Literature. Does Jane Eyre fall under that category?
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