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Back ground on the age
The nineteenth century is known as the Victorian age. It was the period of queen Victoria’s era which started from 1837 until her death in 1901. It was a complex era . There are many events which helped to mould its way of life and thought .
First of all, as a result of the Industrial Revolution England was transformed from a rural and agricultural nation into an industrial and urban nation . The thing which affect the social ,cultural and economic aspects of life . The writers began to concentrate their interest on man rather than society .
Second, the effect of the French Revolution .since the radical thinkers were attracted by the call for equality ,liberty and fraternity .Third, an important phenomenon which characterized that century was the clash between science and religion . Such conflict shocked man’s belief and there was intendancy towards scepticism . Fourth, an important characteristic of the age is that literature both in prose and poetry seems to depart from the purely artistic standard of art for art sake and to be actuated by a definite moral purpose . The novel sought to find truth and to show how it might be used to uplift humanity . For this reason the Victorian
Age is an age of realism a deeper realism which strives to tell the truth ; showing moral and physical diseases as they are .
George Eliot
George Eliot was the pen-name chosen by Mary Anne (or Marian) Evans .
She was born on November 22,1819 in war wick shire . Mary Anne was the youngest of five children . She was afforded the privileges of a private education . She enjoyed books and learning from a young age .
Unfortunately , Mary Anne was forced to leave school at age of 19 ,when her mother died in early 1839. Her father continued to indulge her love of learning . She was her father’s house keeper and she spent her lonely years educating herself she made herself “a woman of wide and varied scholarship”. In 1841, Mary Anne’s father moved them to the larger town of
The nineteenth century is known as the Victorian age. It was the period of queen Victoria’s era which started from 1837 until her death in 1901. It was a complex era . There are many events which helped to mould its way of life and thought .
First of all, as a result of the Industrial Revolution England was transformed from a rural and agricultural nation into an industrial and urban nation . The thing which affect the social ,cultural and economic aspects of life . The writers began to concentrate their interest on man rather than society .
Second, the effect of the French Revolution .since the radical thinkers were attracted by the call for equality ,liberty and fraternity .Third, an important phenomenon which characterized that century was the clash between science and religion . Such conflict shocked man’s belief and there was intendancy towards scepticism . Fourth, an important characteristic of the age is that literature both in prose and poetry seems to depart from the purely artistic standard of art for art sake and to be actuated by a definite moral purpose . The novel sought to find truth and to show how it might be used to uplift humanity . For this reason the Victorian
Age is an age of realism a deeper realism which strives to tell the truth ; showing moral and physical diseases as they are .
George Eliot
George Eliot was the pen-name chosen by Mary Anne (or Marian) Evans .
She was born on November 22,1819 in war wick shire . Mary Anne was the youngest of five children . She was afforded the privileges of a private education . She enjoyed books and learning from a young age .
Unfortunately , Mary Anne was forced to leave school at age of 19 ,when her mother died in early 1839. Her father continued to indulge her love of learning . She was her father’s house keeper and she spent her lonely years educating herself she made herself “a woman of wide and varied scholarship”. In 1841, Mary Anne’s father moved them to the larger town of
References: : Methuen (1967). Study-aids Notes on ADAM BEDE, London: Methuen & Co. LTD Oxford world’s Classics www. sparknotes.com www. cliffs notes .com