Victorian Era The Victorian era was one of good and bad where empires fell and rose as senseless wars were fought‚ people dominated‚ and advancements of culture and technology were made throughout. The Victorian era is called the Victorian era because England was currently being ruled over by Queen Victoria. The British Empire reached its greatest size under her reign. The greatest country she conquered was India‚ it was known as the jewel of the British Empire because it brought England so many
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Poor Victorian Children -Since a large part of the poor children had to work public jobs to help support their families many parents thought of children as income‚ and having more children who worked raised the income of the home. Many parents had 10 or 12 or even more children for this reason alone. How old did children have to be to work in Victorian Times? -Victorian children would be made to go to work at a very young age. As unbelievable as it sounds‚ sometimes even 4 or 5 years old. Actually
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Victorian Literature Victorian literature covered a wide range of themes and writings styles. It was most popular during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) and is known as the Victorian era. Victorian literature was formed from three main styles‚ Romanticism‚ Realism‚ and Naturalism. Each of the styles contained writers‚ poets‚ and novelists. In the early part of the Victorian era‚ most of the literature was romantic. The themes of Romanticism were optimistic: worth‚ love‚ and the beauty
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Victorian Paragraphs Immigrants and Natives Living in Canada No matter where you lived‚ your social class always stayed the same‚ which was unfortunately the case for immigrants and first nation’s people in Canada. Immigrants coming to Canada were hoping for one of two things: their own land‚ and freedom of class. Most new immigrants to Canada were from Europe‚ but mainly Ireland and Scotland. The living conditions were the same in Canada as they were in Europe. The poor stayed poor‚ and the
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Clothing Later Victorian (1870-1890) After the death of her husband in 1861‚ Victoria went into seclusion‚ and though still deeply respected as sovereign of a great empire‚ she ceased to influence fashion as directly. The somber colors that came into fashion are attributed to the fact that the British Court remained in mourning. Black became a popular fashion color in this period‚ not only worn for mourning. However dress forms changed significantly. After decades of full skirts‚ a new silhouette
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From Romantic to Victorian The Victorian Age came after the Romantic Age and took place between the years of 1832 and 1901. Throughout the Romantic Age many authors/poets concentrated and focused on the rights of the people‚ as well as the idea of individualism. We are going to see how those beliefs helped spring into the Victorian Age. There are three main things concerning the Victorians during this specific time period: evolution‚ industrialism‚ and women. Along with these three comes doubt
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standards of society. Heather has medium length brown/blonde hair and a pretty white smile with straight teeth. She wears very light make-up and modest clothing. Heather shows her “Victorian ways” by her modest dress and polite attitude. Her job and mission in life is to make sure her family is well taken care of and provided for. She loves her family and will do whatever she needs to in order to make sure they have everything they need. Heather is a stay at home mom‚ which adds to her Victorian lifestyle
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Victorian Era Education In the novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ the protagonist Pip says‚ “I took the opportunity of being alone in the courtyard‚ to look at my coarse hands and my common boots‚”(Dickens‚ 85) . Born from a lower class‚ Pip had sense of lack inferiority regarding his social class and opportunities for education. Although schools have always been around it wasn’t until the Victorian era that education was improved considerably and available for all children
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The Victorian era is considered by many to be a period of intense sexual repression‚ as expressed in Sexualities in Victorian Britain: ’the Victorians were notorious as the great enemies of sexuality; indeed‚ in Freud’s representative account‚ sexuality sometimes seems to be whatever it was that the middle-class Victorian mind attempted to hide‚ evade‚ repress‚ deny’ (Miller and Adams‚ 1996). Modern critics such as Michal Foucault have recognised that Victorian prudery is no more than a ‘repressive
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rebellion to tyranny are some of the ideas the romantic period brought to society’s attention. While rejecting neoclassical views of order‚ reason‚ tradition‚ society and formal diction. Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constrained rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. The definition of poetry by William Wordsworth‚ (an important poet of the romantic period) exemplifies the importance of emotion and the individual‚ stating “Poetry
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