When her father died in 1904 she moved to a new area of London, Bloomsbury, where she founded a close circle of intellectuals → Bloomsbuty Group.
As a group they saw themselves as sharing common values which emphasised the importance of subjectivity, aesthetic enjoyment, personal ties of affection, and intellectual honesty.
They were hostile t
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It always feels like the reader is entering in the characters’ inner world. Time is often dilated and a single moment can last for a very long time. She uses the indirect interior monologue to represent the gap between chronological and interior time. Woolf wants to impress the characters who experience these events in their subjectivity and this m
In the centre of the complex there are many facilities including the information office, reception, post office, currency exchange, safe deposit and car hire.
The beach is sandy with rocky areas on either side.
Deckchairs and umbrellas are available for hire.
There are three slides into seawater pools and the fourth slide is into
3. A faster and better communications thanks to the invention of telephone, a more efficient mail service, a cheaper printing.
For all these reasons the Victorian age can be considered as a an age of great optimism.
THE PRESSURE FOR REFORM
After a briefly democratic period during the early years of the French revolution, Britain had r
The audience was mainly the middle class, “perfectly commonplace people” and audience demand was for entertainment and relaxation. They enjoyed the so-called “well-made plays” (A form of French theatre developed in the 1800s. EugËne Scribe and Victorien Sardou popularized it. The well-made play involves secrets and timely arrivals of surprise characters
The most important writers of this period are Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, first with a social comedies, second for the reality of work and the criticism of Victorian values.
George Bernard Shaw was influenced by Ibsen in which he saw a new face of theatre, an instrument for social and political change. Another characteristic of Sh
Philanthropy was a wide phenomenon: the rich middle class expolited the poor ruthlesssly and at the same time managed to help “stay children, fallen woman and drunk men”.
The husband represented the autority and the key role of woman regarded the education of children and the hosework.
Sexuality was generally repressed in its public and private
We notice that the numbers of millionaires increased, but on the other hands the huge problem of exploitation and the lack of work’s protection still exist; the poor class was still poor and lived on the border of subsistence, even if the salaries were put up and the food cost less. Rich people could spend their free time in pubs, while the lower calls
~~~~The Chartist Movement started in 1837 and ended in 1848. It aim was to obtain full democratic participation of the working classes in politics. This group was composed by radicals and workers, who in 1839 presented to Parliament a document called "People's Charter".
But the Charter failed and his objectives were taken again by the Reform Bill an
In the meantime the workers had begun to organise themselves in Trade Union and after in Labour Party. The great progress was called "municipal socialism".
By the middle of the nineteen-century Britain had become a nation of dwellers; it was brought to the industrial development. So the most important problem of the Victorian age was the urban