Diseases and Treatments in the Victorian Era By: Will Kraemer September 28‚ 2011 Outline I- Introduction: the thoughts and ideas about diseases. II- Body: living conditions/ why they got sick 1. How the filth and grime led to diseases 2. Home-remedies 3. Death III- Body: Diseases 1. Cholera 2. Tuberculosis 3. Typhus IV- Body: Treatments and medical discoveries 1. Why they started caring about sanitation and hygiene 2. How they cured it before
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Literary Background—Trends in the Victorian NovelWhen we speak of the Victorian novel we do not mean that there was a conscious school of the English novel‚ with a consciously common style and subject-matter‚ a school which began creating with the reign of Queen Victoria and which came to an end with the end of that reign. The English are too individualistic for such conformity. However‚ there can be no denying the fact that the English novel during second half of the nineteenth century‚ with the
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incorporated many of the same themes from the Victorian/Gothic literary period. In the Victorian England society‚ women were considered weak and inferior to men‚ which is why many believed they functioned best for society in the home taking care of the husbands and children. (Hughes‚ n.p.). Women were supposed to view marriage as a way to raise a family instead of using it to fill an emotional or sexual void. (Hughes‚ n.p.). The “ideal woman” in the Victorian era was one who was fully devoted to her family
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countries in becoming a democracy and the uprising of societies against constricting governments. However during the Victorian Era‚ a structured hierarchical environment was not only accepted but was considered to be of the upmost importance in society’s continuous survival. Victorian Literature allows readers to gain a critical insight into the class and social hierarchy of the era‚ by outlining the extensive amount of guidelines and restrictions applicable to each class and therefore how these affected
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wonder what it was like to live in the Victorian era? Was it romantic‚ luxurious‚ and utopian‚ or was it wicked‚ corrupt‚ and polluted? Ever since the 19th century‚ innumerable authors have tried to capture the perfect interpretation of the Victorian era. Whether they idealized or denigrated it‚ they all provided insight on what Victorian life was like. In the novel Great Expectations‚ Charles Dickens effectively uses social commentary to address Victorian London’s economic disparity between the
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Sierra Brewster ENGL-2322 07/29/12 Research Paper: Victorian Wedding Dresses The Victorian Era ranged between the years 1837-1901. In the United States this was right after the Civil War when Westward Expansion was occurring‚ and attracted millions of immigrants who were primarily from Europe. For example‚ some of these immigrants migrated from Italy and Austria‚ most likely because of the forces of nationalism. It was always a land controlled by stronger powers. Napoleon was in charge of
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Victorian Servant “He who is not a good servant‚ will not be a good master.”-Plato. The butler‚ servant‚ and the service system played a huge role in the Victorian Era. In this time‚ the Service System was very important. It is the only way some houses got anything around the house done. Many households would be a wreck or would not be able to stay running without the master’s servants. The service system played a huge part in the Victorian Era. Most people in the service system were female. In
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WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY William Makepeace Thackeray was an English author‚ novelist and satirist who gained international fame and popularity for his novel Vanity Fair. His most famous works include novels Catherine‚ The Luck of Barry Lyndon and The Adventures of Philip. Initially started as a satirist and parodist‚ Thackeray produced some of fine examples of this genre. The author was also a journalist and columnist and contributed sketches for the Fraser’s magazine before writing his first
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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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Female Victorian women‚ in Great Expectations and Jane Eyre do not conform to their stereotype. During early Victorian England‚ women did not have suffrage rights‚ the right to sue‚ or the right to own their own property. Women were seen as belonging to the domestic sphere. This stereotype obliged them to provide their husbands with a clean home‚ food and to raise their children. When a Victorian man and woman married‚ the rights of the woman were legally given over to her spouse. Under the law
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