Merlin and Vivien

epitomized the agony and despondency of the degradation of one’s character.

His masterpiece, The Idylls of the King, explicates the grand scheme of

corruption of the Authurian age while simultaneously paralleling Tennyson’s own

internal struggles. A most intriguing chapter of The Idylls, “Merlin and Vivien”

portrays the manipulative Vivien, identified as pure evil and hatred, as her

corruptive beauty leads to Merlin’s self-destruction.

The Victorian era, from the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 until

her death in 1901, was an era of several unsettling social developments that

forced writers more than ever before to take positions on the immediate issues

animating the rest of society. Thus, although romantic forms of expression in

poetry and prose continued to dominate English literature throughout much of

the century, the attention of many writers was directed, sometimes

passionately, to such issues as the growth of English democracy, the

education of the masses, the progress of industrial enterprise and the

consequent rise of a materialistic philosophy, and the plight of the newly

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