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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: 6 years, 9 months ago

When 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 […]
Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post Incestuous love: The case of the forbidden love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

In 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 […]
Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post Jailbird Blues in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

From 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 […]
Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post Love is an orphan in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

We 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 […]
Ashley Contreras edited the blog post A series of unfortunate events in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

In “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 […]
Ashley Contreras edited the blog post An Orphanage of compassion in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

Looking 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 […]
Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post The World is Our Kingdom, but Do We Know the Players? in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

In 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 […]
Ashley Contreras wrote a new blog post The Inheritance of Love and Revenge in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

We 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 […]
Ashley Contreras edited the blog post Confinement within their oppression in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

In 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, […]
Ashley Contreras edited the blog post Wuthering Heights (Chap. 1-9) — Make A Connection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 11 months ago

To 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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