Essays on England

Victorian fashion was named after Queen Victoria, who succeeded to the English throne in 1837 after her brothers died, leaving her to inherit the throne from her father, King George III. Queen Victoria will reign until 1901, making her the longest-serving queen in history. She is better known, though, for…

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, actor, and poet who lived in the 15th century. He wrote some 38 plays and several poems, and while his works did not get much attention at the time, scholars are now delving into them in detail 500 years later. Nonetheless, the vocabulary used…

Mel Gibson directed “Braveheart,” a period film with plenty of violence and blood, slit throats, and impaled bodies. The movie’s music, composed by James Horner, adds to its powerful atmosphere. The production design is by Tom Sanders. The film’s cast includes Mel Gibson as William Wallace, Sophie Marceau as Princess…

Born on November 30, William Leonard Spencer-Churchill was educated in an aristocratic family in England’s Oxford Shire in Blenheim Palace. His father, Lord Randolph, was an influential political figure in England, while his mother, Lady Randolph, was an American millionaire. Churchill did not have a tightly knitted friendship with his…

In the early 1600s, England gave birth to the Puritan religion (Kopelson 2016). The Puritans recognized that the Anglican Church, England’s state divine agency, needed to be segregated from the Catholic religious faith Power. The Puritans sought to overhaul the Anglican Church in the early 1600s, with only little results….

Religion is described as the collection of dogmas, values, practices, and feelings that describe the relationship between divinity and humans. The majority of religious sects are founded on an idealized account of a country or a prophet who taught his disciples the ideals of life (Atheisme.free.fr, 2018). Hindus, Muslims, Christians,…

Unlike the English kings, who held influence with the nobles and a smaller aristocracy known as the gentry, whose members formed the legislature known as Parliament, which consisted of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. King James VI of Scotland (1603)… became England’s King after her distant…