Topic > Victorian Values ​​in a Tale of Two Cities - 2784

The connotations associated with the Victorian era are moralism and repression. This era was the time of authors Charles Dickens and Robert Browning; like many other authors of the time, they wrote about values ​​in society. A piece of Charles Dickens' work that belongs to the era is Tale of Two Cities, which talked about contrasting values ​​of different areas. Red Cotton Night Cap Country by Robert Browning is about the values ​​imposed on a woman. All moral values ​​of the time were set at high standards even though they were easily broken, not many people were at risk of admitting that. In the Victorian era their values ​​were very questionable compared to those of modern times. It was the kind of era that was At the beginning of history, French aristocrats exercised complete freedom and harassed those of the lower classes. Doctor Manette's prison manuscript describes in detail how one of the Evremonde brothers used his medieval privilege of yoking a vassal to a chariot and driving him like an animal to his death. This plays into the values ​​of the Victorian era. Everyone at the time aspired to live up to extraordinarily high standards. In today's society these values ​​would be seen as strict and rigid. The poem now focuses on the story of Léonce Miranda, heir to a jewelry business, torn between the opposing demands of religious devotion and the sensual, materialistic side of her nature. Miranda takes Clara de Millefleurs (a lover) and hosts her in a luxuriously renovated priory. Miranda's disgraced mother intensifies her guilt over her affair so much that she attempts suicide by drowning herself in the Seine. The attempt fails and with the death of her mother Miranda feels more guilty than ever, so she breaks off her relationship with Clara. While trying to burn his letters, he ends up maiming himself by burning both his hands. However, he begins the relationship and begins donating to the La Ravissante church near his home. He dies by throwing himself from the priory lookout. His will divides his estate between the Church and