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VICTORIAN AGE

Francesca Derasmo

THOMAS HARDY AND KIPLING

LEWIS CAROLL AND STEVENSON

QUEEN VICTORIA

  • She became queen at the age of 18
  • She lived alone, she had a strong personality

QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER REIGN

  • She had a german tutor, she followed puritan ideas
  • She married Prince Albert, and they had 9 children

HER REIGN

could be divided into 3 periods

  • PERIOD OF REFORMS

after industrial revolution

  • PERIOD OF EMPIRE

The great exhibition

HER REIGN

  • BLACK PERIOD

Prince Albert's death

There were a lot of inventions:

  • The STAMP
  • The TRAIN
  • The STEAM ENGINE

INNOVATIONS

  • CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS
  • CHARITY INSTITUTIONS called WORKHOUSES
  • CURRENT WATER AND GAS

Her reign was a period of peace and progress, but despite that there were also problems like poverty, diseases, corruption, pollution

PROBLEMS

CHARLES DICKENS

OLIVER TWIST= his surname means the change of feelings

  • He was an orphan

CHARLES DICKENS

  • He was sent to a workhouse, where he worked hardly
  • He asked for more food and he was sold
  • He escaped to London, where he met a gang of pickpockets
  • Finally, he found a good man, who adopted him

THEME:

Exploitation of a poor children in a workhouse

THEME:

OLIVER TWIST

HARD TIMES

  • Description of a industrial town, COKE TOWN
  • Red bricks houses

HARD TIMES

  • Steam engine compared to the head of an elephant
  • Smoke similar to a lizard

COKE TOWN

THE BRONTE SISTERS

  • They were 3 sisters: Anne, Charlotte and Emily

BRONTE SISTERS

  • They were self-educated
  • They started to write stories earlier

JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte

  • She was an orphan girl
  • She was the governess at Thornfield Hall
  • She fell in love with Mr Rochester

JANE EYRE

  • Their wedding was interrupted by his wife, Bertha Mason
  • She left the city
  • She came back and she married Rochester, after his wife died in a house fire

THEME:

New idea of woman, a independent woman

JANE EYRE

WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte

There were two families, who were in competition

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

THE EARNSHAW

THE LINTONS

THEME:

The DEATH,is not an end but a liberation of the spirit

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

LEWIS CAROLL

ALICE ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

  • She was a young lady,who felt into a holl, to run a white rabbit
  • She discovered a fantastic and illogical world and she met strange characters like the Mad Hatter, the Queen of hearts, the Cheshire Cat

THEMES:

The child's STRUGGLE to survive in the adults world

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

ROBERT STEVENSON

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

ROBERT STEVENSON

  • He was a scientist, who decided to drink a potion to become a monster
  • Every night he turned into a bad creature
  • At the end, he killed himself

THEME:

EVIL is inside man, everyone is good and bad (duality)

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

THOMAS HARDY

  • He lived during the last period of Victorian Age

PESSIMISTIC vision of reality

  • He was an architect, so he underlined that:

We have to study the CONTEXT, the SETTING, before to analyse a person

He wrote:

JUDE THE OBSCURE

TESS OF D'UBERVILLES

TESS AND JUDE

RUDYARD KIPLING

THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

KIPLING

The "BURDEN" was to civilise NATIVE PEOPLE, and establish their gouvernment, their culture

NATIVE PEOPLE, were considered as stupid people and not able to think

THE WHITE'S MAN BURDEN

AMERICAN LITERATURE

The most important american poets were:

AMERICAN LITTERATURE

HERMAN MELVILLE

NATHALIE HAWTHORNE

WALT WHITMAN

NATHALIE HAWTHORNE

THE SCARLET LETTER

  • A women moved to USA

HAWTHORNE

  • She found a man , they had a baby
  • She was condemned
  • She had to wear an "A" on her dress, stands for ABLE

THEME:

  • In the society, lots of people were STRICT-MINDED, but then they started to change

THE SCARLET LETTER

WALT WHITMAN

I HEAR AMERICA SINGING

WHITMAN

  • American workers who were trying to built a BETTER society

THEME:

America can offer people different chances ( ex: job, family..)

I HEAR AMERICA SINGING

HERMAN MELVILLE

MOBY DICK

MELVILLE

  • A sailor, Ishmael, decided to pursue the big whale, called MOBY DICK, during a journey around the world

THEME:

No man can defeat nature, because is too POWERFUL

MOBY DICK

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