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Emma Sens wrote a new blog post Group 4: Refelction in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 11 months ago

Group 4: Places That Show The Development Of Pip

By: Kathryn Capone, Emma Sens, Clare Corbett, Cameron Luquer, Kristopher Bangsil, and Isa Higgins

Our goal with this project was to delve deeper into the […]
Emma Sens wrote a new blog post powerful women in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years ago

At the beginning of the year, I wondered about the roles women had women in Victorian literature, over the course I have learned a lot about this topic, and I think the most interesting thing I learned was how to […]
Emma Sens edited the blog post Death by love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years ago

A connection I made was between “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, by Oscar Wilde and Wuthering Heights. The lines “Some kill their love when they are young,

And some when they are old;

Some strangle with the h […]
Emma Sens wrote a new blog post children in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 1 month ago

One connection I made is how Pip and the child factory workers in “The Cry of the Children” can be viewed as similar. Throughout the poem, images of a factory Hell are contrasted with the Heaven of the Eng […]
Emma Sens edited the blog post identity in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 1 month ago

A common theme I see in both Wuthering Heights and Great Expectations is identity. In Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is an orphan with no identity and seeks it out in Catherine, and in Great Expectations Pip is […]
Emma Sens edited the blog post status in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 1 month ago

In the beginning chapters of Great Expectations,
Dickens explores the class system of Victorian England. He discusses the
criminals, peasants, the middle class, rich, and more. When Estella lays Pip’s
food on the […]
Emma Sens edited the blog post Survival of the fit in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 1 month ago

In The Origins of Species by Natural Selection, Darwin
argues that the growing population is kept in check by features such as geography
and natural resources. Together, the two will never allow for an infinite […]
Emma Sens edited the blog post Heathcliff and the chimney sweeper in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 2 months ago

One connection I made was between Wuthering Heights
and The Chimney Sweeper was the parallel between Heathcliff and the chimney
boy. Heathcliff and the young boy have many similarities. The boy in The […]
Emma Sens wrote a new blog post outspoken women in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 2 months ago

A connection I made was the powerful stance that both Emily Bronte and Harriet Martineau take on. Both women are writing during times when society was male dominated, yet don’t hesitate to voice their opinions a […]
Emma Sens edited the blog post connection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 2 months ago

With all the pieces we have read so far, I consistently see a theme of mistreatment of the lower class. In Wuthering Heights, it is demonstrated by the poor child who is referred to as “it” and banished to the […]

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