Review Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: October-December | Volume: 5 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 12-14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/gijash.20211003
Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach’’: A Depiction of Victorian Doubt and Faith
Ali Jal Haider
M.A. (English) University of Pune, Maharashtra
Ph.D (Pursuing) Om Prakash J. Singh University, Rajasthan.
ABSTRACT
Dissatisfied with his age Arnold turned towards Greek Culture and literature. Victorian age was an age of doubt and faith. Religious faith were in melting pot. Darwin’s ‘Origin Of Species’ (1859) shook the Victorian faith. Darwin questioned the very basic statement of ‘The Holy Bible’. Arnold considered literature as a weapon to established the broken faith of Victorians. He took Greek literature as reference to write literature. Arnold keenly observed Greek art and culture and find solace in it. He used Greek Art and Culture as the tool of morality and it has the healing power to wounded Victorian faith. Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach is a poetry of vanished past and vanished faith.
Keywords: Reflective elegy, Vanished Faith, Victorian Doubt and Faith, Sea of faith.
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