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The Woman Question: Women's Roles in Victorian Literature The Victorians produced in their women a sort of "white woman's burden"the ideal Victorian woman was the "angel in the house," a model of domesticity whose main charge is caring for her menfolks, who are exhausted from saving the world from savagery. Women's status in... More..

Arts & Humanities > British Literature Literary analysis: Newspeak and language control in Orwell's 1984

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English is today's lingua franca, the mother tongue of millions, and the foreign language learned most often worldwide. Imagine, then, an English whose vocabulary shrinks rather than grows annually, composed of tacked-together terms and meaningless phraseologythis is the Newspeak of George Orwell's 1984. Newspeak is possibly... More..

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