Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach and Self-Dependece

Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach and Self-Dependence Matthew Arnold was born at Laleham on the Thames, the eldest son of Thomas Arnold, in 1822. He had to live in the shadow of his famous father who ran the Rugby school beginning in 1828. He went to the Rugby school since age 6, but his achievement were inconsistent. He got a scholarship to Oxford anyway in 1841. School came easy to him there. His father died in 1842 of a heart …showed first 75 words of 1996 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1996 total…he wants to be satisfied with himself. He must look deeper into life and not just the shallow waters of life and the world he sees around him. He shouldn’t be uniform or “what I ought to be”, he should “be thyself”, and then he will lose his misery. Bibliography http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/victov.html http://www.poets.org/lit/poet/marnofst.htm http://student.cscc.edu/ENGL/Engl262/arnold.htm