Victorian Era Research Paper

Could you imagine, a world, where everything was based on the way you expressed yourself to others, or a world where properness was just as important as being well educated? I know I couldn’t, but this is how the Victorians in the Victorian Era lived. Everything they did and said, revolved around some sort of manners or etiquette. Etiquette is the code of polite behavior. Manners and etiquette had a major impact on making the Victorian Era a better society (Gaby). Why were manners and etiquette so important in the Victorian Era? In the Victorian Era men and women were judged based on their manners. If your manners were good, you were known to have a great uprising usually by a rich family. If your manners were poor and offending people chose to ignore you and look down upon you. People with proper manners were looked at as part
The children in the Victorian Era were to have good manners too. Their parents were to teach them the basics. One of these basics was how to act in public (Kennedy). Children were to say, please and thank you whenever they were in public. Children were also supposed to be untroubled, especially around adults. Children were to never act careless and immature. They were to act grown-up and “their age”. Their other manners came from common knowledge, like to avoid talking back to an elder, especially to your own mother and father. Victorian children were to act their age, especially around adults. These rules are a lot different from today. Today, children curse, back talk, and act foolishly. Children today also lack respect for their elders. If the children in the Victorian Era ever did any of these they would be greatly punished by their guardians or nannies depending on whether they had a nanny or not. The wealthy children usually had nannies, and they were not very close with their parents. The poor children were raised by their mother, and they tended to be very close with