Victorian Doubt In God
Victorian Doubt in God: Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam
When I first got this assignment I racked my brain for a topic that would interest me as well as something I could learn from. When I came across Alfred Lord Tennyson it sparked my interest and as I read on I decided that I would write about him. My next decision was to pick one of his poems to research. I finally chose In Memoriam I read the background on it and it interested me. In Memoriam is very long so I’m only going to discuss some it. But I want to begin by discussing the Victorian Doubt in God.
In “ Characteristics”, Carlyle discusses the same doubt in God that Tennyson feels in In Memoriam, a doubt that characteristically reflects religion in England under the reign of Queen Victoria. Carlyle doubts man’s beliefs because he understands man’s insignificance in the realm of things and thus wonders how any of man’s answers to any questions of the world could be right.......
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