Victorian gender roles and Dickens’s image of women as by Anja Dinter

By Anja Dinter

Seminar paper from the 12 months 2004 within the topic English Language and Literature reviews - Literature, grade: 1,3, college of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), direction: nice expectancies and tough occasions through Charles Dickens, 15 entries within the bibliography, language: English, summary: Introduction

The following paintings is an research of the feminine characters in Charles Dickens’s nice expectancies specifically in regards to Victorian gender buildings and Dickens’s photo of ladies. Dickens’s biography and the depiction of very varied girl characters in his novels prompted the assumption of a better research.
First of all, a quick precis of serious expectancies is supplied. Then, the Victorian development of gender could be mentioned. As might be proven, a really strict ideology concerning gender roles existed through the Victorian age. evidently, Dickens should have been stimulated by means of the information of his contemporaries which may still then be provided within the novel.
Another concentration is going to be on how his relationships to ladies inspired his photo of girls and likewise, hence, the depiction of his lady characters in nice Expectations.
Finally the feminine characters, with regards to Victorian gender roles and Dickens’s photograph of girls, should be analyzed in better aspect. the focal point is on 4 girls who i think to be an important lady characters within the novel and strong representatives of the author’s picture of ladies and Victorian gender construction.

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