English 1022E Lecture 3: Childe Roland

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: David Bentley

Document Summary

Fairytale elements are very common in this course, as they are in childe roland. Browning found it di cult to align himself with certain victorian concepts: written in one day. He that endureth to the end hope: inspires de ance and courage a triumph of childe roland"s personality and his persistence. Others argue that roland"s quests are futile and pointless . Browning takes contemporary issues and problems and transforms them so he can decipher what is going on in the issue: anti-victorian author. Contemporary issues examined: massive display of products of victorian industrialism. Victorians loved spectacular displays such as this. Most people though it was great, to see what britain was produced nationalism // whereas others found it despicable that there was so much focus on materialism during this time. Crimean war: one example of the perpetual state of war that britain was in during the victorian.