The Lady's Yes (Elizabeth Barret Browning)

This poem reveals a criticism of all the chauvinist practices of the time. A strong and independent woman is represented when she said yes to a man one night, but the other day she said no. Consequently, this woman also gave her some advice to keep in mind when he is courting a woman. 

"Learn to win a lady's faith 
Nobly, as the thing is high;
Bravely, as for life and death ---
With a loyal gravity." 

Porphyria's Lover (Robert Browning)

This story like others written by Browning have that mystery that surrounds them and give us an unexpected ending. Especially with this, we can see how Porphyria is madly in love with the reader, to the point that it is almost adoration. Then, the reader thinks how nice it is to be adored and begins to think what would happen if his girlfriend stopped loving him that way and comes to the conclusion that the best thing is to kill her and that her life ends in that way loving him madly. And, he convinced himself that she did not feel pain. Then, as with "My Last Duchess", the tragedy is unexpected but it happened. 


"That moment she was mine, mine, fair,
Perfectly pure and good: I found 
A thing to do, and all her hair
In one long yellow string I wound
Tree times her little throat around, 
And strangled her. No pain felt she;
I am quite sure she felt no pain." 

My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)

This poem has a certain mystery behind it. The tragedy is something that at the beginning of the poem is not on the table.However, when the reader began to mention how his wife always smiled at everyone and accepted everything they asked for, tragedy began to be as possible. The reader did not feel as someone important for her due to this issue. Then, this jealousy led him to convince himself that killing her was the best option. 

Agnes Grey (Anne Bronte)

Agnes Gray is a story that in the Victorian era was quite interesting; however, personally, today is not so exciting. It is a story that allows us to know the story of Agnes as a governess, all the problems she had to overcome and, finally, how she found love.

Some controversial issues were present in the story:

Animal abuse: The little boy who kills all those birds making them suffer.

Religion: Agnes mentioned and explained religion many times.

Feminism: The women oppresion was present all over the book.

Significant Quote:

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.” 
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey. 

The Lady of Shalott (Alfred Lord Tennyson)

Characters: 

Lady of Shalott 
Lancelot 

Event:

The Lady of Shalott was a Lady who was condemned to live in a tower on the island of Shalott. She could not leave or even look outside the tower because she was cursed, if she did, she would die. However, she look outside looking for Lancelot who was singing near the tower. After that, she left the tower to go to Camelot to look for Lancelot because she did not want to die in that tower. She got on a boat and wrote her name on it, but she died arriving in Camelot. 

Reflection: 

The decisions we make towards certain actions can have consequences, so it is very important to know which decisions are worthwhile and which ones are not worth it.

The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)

Characters: 

John (Jack/Ernest) Worthing.

Algernon Moncrieff.

Gwendolen Fairfax.

Cecily Cardew.

Lady Bracknell.

Miss Prism. 

Rev. Canon Chasuble. 

Event: 
This play took place in London.

From the play, there are some aspects that I would like to mention.

1.      The importance of a family name in that society: Even though Jack was a rich person, but without a respectable last name, Lady Bracknell was not interested in letting her only daughter marry him.

2.      The greedy society: It was noted how important money and power was at that time for the man if he wanted to marry a noble woman.

3.      The Bunbury: This might represent what Oscar Wilde had to go through as a homosexual man. It is also a critic to demonstrate what a man usually did to cover their incorrect actions.

Significant Quote:

 “Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.” (Algernon). 

The Life of the Industrial Worker (Scott and Baltzly)

Joshua Drake, called in; and Examined 

1. Joshua mentioned that he would prefer work fewer hours and earn lower wages because it is difficult to work long periods of time. 
2. "Why you would allow your children to go to work at those places where they are ill-treated or over-worked? --- Necessity compels a man that has children to let them work." This part of the essay demonstrates the need that poor people in the Victorian era lived. 
3. If it was not from necessity, I would not allow my kids to do it. 
4. They mentioned a law to reduced labour hours and wages with it, but Joshua said that he preferred that.  
5. In addition, an advantage of limiting the hours was mentioned. Limiting work hours will allow other people to have a job since many people work day and night and that takes away work from someone else.