Open AccessMatthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach’’: A Depiction of Victorian Doubt and Faith
Author(s) -
Ali Jal Haider
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
galore international journal of applied sciences and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-8430
DOI - 10.52403/gijash.20211003
Subject(s) - faith , victorian literature , depiction , history , morality , power (physics) , literature , art , art history , philosophy , law , theology , political science , physics , quantum mechanics
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.