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The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Annotated) (Paperback)

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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Oscar Wilde lived in England in the middle of the 19th century, during the Victorian era, he was a great critic of the society in which he lived on his values and his double standards. In his plays he uses irony and satire to denounce the vices of the bourgeois class and ridicule them. A representative example of his scathing criticism of Victorian society is the work The Importance of being called Ernest.The Victorian era formally begins in 1837, when Queen Victoria of England rises to the throne and ends until the year of her death 1901. This period is considered as the end of English romanticism. London became the center of the commercial, political and social power of the world Queen Alexandrina Victoria 1837-1901. The nineteenth century was one of great advances and changes for society. The industrial revolution promoted advances in the means of production with which the capitalist economic model was developed. The development of capitalism had consequences in society although industry and commerce had a great increase the social division became more evident, the middle class increased their wealth, while the lower class was thrown into the big cities to form the working class and live more and more in misery. Artists and intellectuals addressed the issues of social inequality,

Product Details
ISBN: 9798732395273
Publisher: Independently Published
Publication Date: April 3rd, 2021
Pages: 54
Language: English