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The Victorian Era. English IV Mr. Cook. 1. Victorians believed that reason and courage could overcome the problems that festered the 1840’s. 2.Middle-class Victorian society was characterized by its code of respectability , decorum , and morality .
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The Victorian Era English IV Mr. Cook
1. Victorians believed that reason and courage could overcome the problems that festered the 1840’s. • 2.Middle-class Victorian society was characterized by its code of respectability, decorum, and morality. • 3. Macaulay voiced middle-class attitude toward government, history, and order.
4. The first decade of Victoria’s reign was known as the Hungry Forties. • 5. People lived 12 to a room and two toilets for every 250 people. • 6. Universal adult suffrage in 1928 extended the right to vote to women at the age of 21. • 7. Factory Acts limited the working day to 10 hours, with a half-holiday on Saturday.
8. In the 1840’s, 40% of couples getting married could not write their names on their marriage certificates. By 1900, 90% of the population were literate. • 9. Prudery=Things that would make people blush were abandoned. • 10. People were arrested for distributing information about STD’s.
11. Victorian society regarded seduced or adulterous women as “fallen” and pushed them to the margins of society. • 12. Women who did not marry had few jobs open to them. Working-class women could become servants, governesses, or teachers. • 13. (Look up in your textbook).
14. Victorian writers asked whether material comfort satisfied human needs and wishes. They questioned the cost of exploiting earth and human begins to achieve comfort. • 15. Charles Dickens was the most popular figure in Victorian literature.
16. The highest purpose of a poet, or any writer, was to make readers aware of the connection between earth and Heaven, body and soul, material and ideal (pg. 692). • 17. Late Victorian writers told stories of lovers and friends betrayed by unfaithfulness, war, and the other troubles that humans add to the natural trials of mortal life.
Brit. Victorian Misc. • Victorian Era was characterized by peace and prosperity. • Industrial Revolution had an immediate influence on the Victorian Era. • Progress was measured by material improvements. • Social problems in Queen Victoria’s reign lead to many different elections. • Genteel best describes the ideal behavior of literary Victorians.
Brit. Victorian Misc. Cont. • Scientific/technological advances of the era gave early Victorians a sense of confidence. • Many Victorian writers hoped their works would raise doubts over materialism. • Plague Wind=Smog. • Finding it difficult to believe in an infinite power, many writers became skeptical by the end of the 19th century.
Brit. Victorian Misc. Cont. • Late Victorian lit. focused on human troubles in an indifferent world. • Poetry contains a musical effect due to: rhyme, meter, and alliteration.
Brit. Victorian Terms • Dramatic Monologue- Poem in which a speaker, who is not the poet, addresses a silent listener. • Petrarchan/Italian Sonnet- Divided into an octave and a seset. • Assonance- Rep. of vowel sounds. • Couplets- Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme. • Allegories- Can have a literal and symbolic level.
Brit. Victorian Terms Cont. • Antonyms- Has the opposite, or nearly opposite, meaning of another word. • Internal Conflict- Conflict within a character. • External Conflict- Conflict between character and a group, force of nature, another character. • Theme- Rarely stated directly, may differ from reader’s interpretation, may relate to time period the piece was written in.
