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The Victorian Compromise
Introduction
Nationalism/Colonialism
• The Victorians were great moralisers.
• They reflected on the world as they would have liked it to be.
• The need to work hard and the strong sense of duty.
• They believed in material progress.
• Aristocracy and well-off middle classes wanted to keep a high respect and consideration.
• Respectability implied the possession of:
- The possession of good manners
- The ownership of a comfortable house with servants and a carriage
- Regular attendance at church
- Charitable activity
• Morality and hypocrisy
• The civic pride and national fervor were frequent in the Britain.
• Patriotism was influenced by the ideas of racial superiority.
• Physical and intellectual differences.
• The Jingoism.
• The Colonial power and economic progress were made for the optimistic view of the Victorians.
• Victorian Compromise
• The novel represents the complexity of the period and the profound changes that characterized it.
• They expressed optimism, conformism and philanthropy of the society.
Chastity
• The ‘realistic novel’ focus on psychological and moral characteristics of human beings
Philanthropy
Fallen Women
• The children never went to school and grew up unable to read or write.
• They were sent out to work to earn money for their families.
• From the Victorian age the education became more important.
• The Church of England became active in this field and erected 'National Schools'.
• From 1880 schooling became mandatory.
• Condition of orphans.
• Financial, material, and ideal resources for cultural, social, and educational institutions.
• Creation of:
- foundations
- limited dividend companies
- charity organizations
- bequests and donations
• Social welfare gradually became embodied in law.
• The inclusion of social science in organizations and civil and religious structures, helped to make philanthropic endeavors more efficient.