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By VisionQuest on
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Hey, everyone. I just recently joined the board. I'm currently in a course entitled "19th Century Victorian Literature," and have chosen to write an essay on the cruelty of the educational institutions depicted in "David Copperfield" and "Jane Eyre." I was wondering if anyone would be willing to read my opening two paragraphs and offer some constructive criticism? What I really need to know if is I have written an apparent thesis, and what material you guys think I can use to back that thesis up.
Anyway, without further ado, here are the paragraphs:
In Victorian life, going away to school was often a fearsome venture. Victorian teachers were strict disciplinarians and corporeal punishment was considered acceptable. Students were punished for varying offenses by utilization of such techniques as being locked in a closet and being handcuffed behind one’s back. Moreover, individual learning differences were largely ignored in favor of forcing upon students the monotonous and burdensome task of memorizing a huge repertoire of facts.
Though educational reform was beginning to sweep through England during the 19th century, the indelible mark such harsh disciplinary and teaching tactics had left on society was unmistakable. Understandably, much Victorian literature included, and at times centered around, the cruelty that children suffered within the educational institution. In fact, two of the most renowned Victorian authors, Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens, focused a sizeable portion of their novels on the brutality and consequences of Victorian education. Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Dickens’ David Copperfield transport readers into two explicitly cruel schools and allow them to witness first-hand how ineffective, discriminatory, and hippocritical such abusive institutions were.
Thanks in advance!
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By sss on
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hi im also doin an essay on david copperfield and i feel after reading the book and seeing the video that you have started answerin the question quite well...although u may hav finished the essay by now.
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