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Examples of Religion in Victorian Texts
- Dramas
- A Woman of No Importance- Oscar Wilde
- Miss Hester Worsley
- Is an American puritan and an outsider to the British society in the play.
- She is an open-hearted and honest
character and falls for Gerald's
natural beauty, his honesty and his
simplicity.
- Proses
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Mr Brocklehurst, Helen Burns and St. John Rivers
- Mr Brocklehurst represents
the dangers and hypocrisy of
the 19th century church.
- Tries to adopt evangelism but actually his treatment to
the curly-haired children is very un-Christian.
- With wealthy home life comes
at the expense of his students.
- Helen Burn's mode of Christianity
is meek and forbearing.
- 'I believe; I have faith: I am going to
God'.
- St. John's Christianity is about ambition, glory
and extreme self-importance.
- He wants he to sacrifice her own
needs for moral duty.
- Jane struggles to find
the right balance
between moral duty and
earthly pleasure.
- In Chapter 26, when her wedding is interrupted she
prays to God for solace. Then in Chapter 28, when alone
on the moors, she puts her survival in the hands of
good.
- 26; 'Be far not from me, trouble is near; there is none to help'
-psalms.
- Religion for Jane helps her curb immoderate passions
and also her to have complete self-knowledge and
faith in God.
- Dracula- Baum Stoker
- The Promise of Christian Salvation
- The supernatural evil is combated by icons of the
Christian faith; the crucifix is used to scare away Dracula's
evil spirit.
- 'We are Ministers of God's own wish'
- Dracula stands as a satanic figure.
- In Lucy's second death she is transformed
into a vision of 'unequalled sweetness and
purity'.
- Crucifixes, communion wafers and crosses.
- Poems
- 'A Prayer'- Anne Bronte
- Written at Thorp Green. She set them to the well known tune 'Justification'.
- 'My weak feeble faith still clings to me'.
- Turns to God in times of hardship and sorrow.