Victorian Era

This week we discussed the Victorian Era, we talked about the huge progression made forward during this time and the almost dreamlike state in which people wrote. There were more female writers I noticed as we have begun to me closer to the age in which we are now in. We read Tennyson's "The Women;s Cause is Man's", and Arnold's "The Forsaken Merman". The dreamlike state and the wishes for gender equality, that a woman has as much right as a man and that they hold an equal and important role. That one needs the other to fully operate ad provide the best in a society. And Arnold's poem was a very interesting commentary on the relationship between religion and imagination. Discussing how over time we tend to lose a piece of our imagination and surrender to "growing up", religion if you will. How religion take over our minds and gives us something more concrete to work and play. I cannot wait to see what next week has in store for the class.