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The Victorian Compromise

Respectability

Introduction

Nationalism/Colonialism

Family and Marriage

• 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 family became a symbol of decency, sobriety and virtue.
  • It was a patriarchal unit (man as a source of discipline).
  • Women had a key-role in some fields of family-life.
  • The marriage: a choice of respectability and convenience.
  • The divorce was considered immoral.
  • Elopement.

• 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

  • Sexuality was generally repressed.
  • Moralism led to extreme manifestations of prudery, even in art.
  • Long dresses for women.

Philanthropy

School

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.

  • Subservience of women led to the concept of the "fallen women".
  • Female chastity and the "loss of innocence".
  • Single women with a child.
  • Example of "Tess of the D'Ubervilles".

• 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.

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