ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“The Lady of Shalott” is portrayed as pure, proper, and domesticated figure that fits the ideal expectations of Victorian women in the 19th century. Similar to “The Lady of Shalott”, Victorian women had to accept their domestic duties by not engaging in the public realm that belonged to men.

Detailed explanation-2: -“The Lady of Shalott” demonstrates the ideals of the Victorian Age on how men and women faced division regarding public and private life. The tower in which the lady is a prisoner portrays a domestic environment that allows her to play her feminine role of weaving.

Detailed explanation-3: -"The Lady of Shalott” is a lyrical ballad by the 19th-century English poet Alfred Tennyson and one of his best-known works. Inspired by the 13th-century Italian short prose text Donna di Scalotta, the poem tells the tragic story of Elaine of Astolat, a young noblewoman stranded in a tower up the river from Camelot.

Detailed explanation-4: -For example, the Lady of Shalott must continue to weave her web alone, and as soon as she tries to participate in the world her web is ruined. This can be symbolic of how it was often thought that an artist’s work can suffer when he tries to become more than an observer, when he breaks his isolation.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Lady of Shalott (1833/42) is a ballad based on medieval sources related to the legend of King Arthur composed by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892).