Aspects in the review of Victoria the Queen by Janet Maslin develop Queen Victoria’s life into the category of an epic. All categories of an epic have been shown in Victoria’s life. As well, Queen Victoria had always had to fight from her own since birth due to her devious uncles. With the information given in the review, Victoria’s life resembles the meaning of an epic. Even though Victoria’s life was definitely proper, Victoria’s life can be put into an epic description. Within the main categories of an epic, Victoria definitely fit the role of an epic hero. Victoria has the British qualities embedded into her beliefs and thoughts. The superhuman strength is showed by how the relatives, and others, have gone against her or tried to kill her. Not to mention Queen Victoria had been in physical pain from childbirth of her nine children. Neither has Victoria been killed nor lost all of the power during her reign. In addition to this, Queen Victoria had a strange connection with death and how her death should be perfect. “...Julia Bard offers not only an inventory of the items with which the queen wished to be buried but also the exact placement she specified for them.” Victoria spent most of her life mourning her husband, Prince Albert. Leading to the fact that even …show more content…
“It was only after Albert’s death...that she could recover her grip, return to politics, deal with prime ministers she either liked (Disraeli) or detested (Gladstone) and win back her subjects’ loyalty.” After the death of Albert, Victoria met John Brown, the Scottish servant who fit the archetype of the loyal servant. John Brown was marked as a faithful companion, as shown by photos and a lock of his hair placed to the right of Queen Victoria. Within Buckingham Palace, rats had infested the castle and the place smelled strongly of