Foro Romano

The Foro Romano is the main public square in Rome. It is located between the Palatine, Velia, Quirinal, and Capitol. The Foro Romano was the center of religious, ceremonial, and commercial life within Rome. Gladiator fighting occurred here and the surrounding shops built balconies for viewing the fights. A growing increase in the public importance of popular politics necessitated the changing from the Comitium to the forum.

Foro Romano

The Foro Romano is the main public square in Rome. It is located between the Palatine, Velia, Quirinal, and Capitol. The Foro Romano was the center of religious, ceremonial, and commercial life within Rome. Gladiator fighting occurred here and the surrounding shops built balconies for viewing the fights. A growing increase in the public importance of popular politics necessitated the changing from the Comitium to the forum.

Magdeburg, Germany

 

Anti-Semitism ("hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group") is notably exposed within Daniel Deronda. This term was coined by Wilhelm Marr, a German agitator (born in Magdeburg, Germany), to "designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe. This would eventually lead to Nazi anti-Semitism (or the Holocaust) because of the racist dimension which targeted Jews. 

the Three Barns, Wessex.

The fictitious Three Barns is the scene for which Rex Gascoigne takes Gwendolen to a hounds throw. A hounds throw is a traditional, stuffy, aristocratic British pastime that involves hunting for wild game on horseback with the aid of sporting dogs (Encyclopædia Britannica). This scene was particularly pivotal in Daniel Deronda, for it characterizes Gwendolen as brazen in her anti-conformation to Victorian notions of femininity.

the Three Barns, Wessex.

The fictitious Three Barns is the scene for which Rex Gascoigne takes Gwendolen to a hounds throw. A hounds throw is a traditional, stuffy, aristocratic British pastime that involves hunting for wild game on horseback with the aid of sporting dogs (Encyclopædia Britannica). This scene was particularly pivotal in Daniel Deronda, for it characterizes Gwendolen as brazen in her anti-conformation to Victorian notions of femininity.

Jane: London

London: Jane and her brother Henry travel there to meet with publishers. This is also where Henry and his wife Eliza (Jane’s Cousin—I will explain this in my “extra things I noticed" section after my written report) live and she visits them often.

Jane: Bath

Bath: Jane visited bath a few times in her life. Before moving to Bath after her father announced his retirement in 1801, she visited her brother James and his wife in 1797, and then travels there again with her mother in 1799. However, after living at 4 Sydney places, Bath for four years, her father, George Austen, suddenly dies in 1805.

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