Victorian Values In A Tale Of Two Cities

The connotations associated with the Victorian era are prudishness and repression. This era was the time period of the authors Charles Dickens and Robert Browning; like many other authors during the era, they wrote about values in society. A piece of Charles Dickens work that pertains to the era is a Tale of Two Cities, which was about conflicting values of different areas. Robert browning’s Red Cotton Night Cap Country is about the imposed values of a woman. All of the moral values during the time were set at high standards even though they were easily broken, not many people took the risk of admitting to it. In the era of Victorians their values were very questionable compared to those of modern times. It was the kind of era that was
At the beginning of the story, the French aristocrats exercise complete freedom harass those of the lower classes. In Doctor Manette 's prison manuscript it details how one of the Evremonde brothers utilized his medieval privilege of harnessing a vassal to a cart and driving him like an animal to his death. This plays into the values of the Victorian era. Everyone during the time aspired to live up to extraordinarily high standards. In today’s society these values would be seen as strict and
The poem now turns to the story of Léonce Miranda, the heir to a jewelry business, she is torn between the opposing demands of religious devotion and the sensual, materialist side of his nature. Miranda takes Clara de Millefleurs (a mistress), and houses her in a luxuriously renovated priory. Miranda’s disgraced mother intensifies his sense of guilt over his affair so much that he tries to commit suicide by drowning himself in the Seine. The attempt failed and with the death of his mother Miranda feels more guilty than ever, so he breaks off his relationship with Clara. While he was trying to burn her letters, he ends up mutilating himself by burning off both his hands. However, he begins the affair and begins making donations to the church of La Ravissante near his home. He dies by throwing himself from the belvedere of the priory. His will divides his estate between the Church and