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Social and historical context of the Victorian Era
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The Social and Historical Context of the Victorian Era
Elektra and Ana
Table Of Content
- Victorian Era UK
- Social Classes
- Moral values
- Conclusion
Table of Content
England in the V.E.
Victorian Era
- Constitutional monarchy
- Only male landowners allowed to vote - 1918
- 19th cent. - Industrial Revolution - UK transformation (train, telegraph, medicine, sewers)
- End of the V.E. - 1890s
- export percentage went down
- wealth unequally spread out
- Irish Famine + Home Rule
- Boer wars - colonies
- Crimean War
Entertainment
- Reading - adventures, adultery, murder (Jack The Ripper), pornography
- Cinema - beginning
- Partying - city and suburban life (recreational drugs & alcohol)
- Sport - swimming, cricket
- Misconception
Entertainment
" Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred. "
- Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade
American Society
- Representative Democracy
- Laisser-faire Government (Adam Smith)
- Immigration - 12 million from EU
- Soldiers battled Native Americans (last major battle in)
- Slavery in the south
American Society
- Late 1800s
- mass communication, music, slavery replaced w/ segregation, baseball & american football,
Social Classes
- relatively calm time
- faults in the structure of society
- Upper class, Middle class, Lower class
- Many differences: landowners VS manual laborers, levels of education, opportunities
- Relationship between them --> hiring or investing for profit
Social Classes
UPPER CLASS
UPPER
- Status usually acquired by inheritance
- Aristocrats, nobles, dukes and other wealthy families working in the Victorian courts
- Authority, living conditions, education, tutors
- Most = all ancestors' money but some participated in industrial revolution and owned mining or shipping factories etc.
MIDDLE CLASS
- Next in social ranking
- Smallest class in the V.E.
- V.E. was very prosperous for them (their industries and business empires)
- Industrial revolution --> more job opportunities --> better living and impact on education
MIDDLE
WORKING CLASS
- Lowest in social hierarchy
- Unaware of political progress of the country
- Hostile to other classes
- skilled workers - in industies
- unskilled workers- unemployed + easily exploited
- Children worked to help put food on the table
- Single rooms, public housing or streets
WORKING
Moral Values
- Influenced by Queen Victoria
- Priorities: Christian Church, hard work and personal success + improvement
- Victorian Values
- Abolition of slavery four years before Q.V. (led by William Wilberforce, aided by William E. Gladstone), Child Labor due to contradiction between notion of childhood between classes (started with the Factory Act of 1844), debates regarding prostitution, abolition of transportation
of criminals to Australia...
Quote
"Between 1780 and 1850 the English ceased to be one of the most aggressive, brutal, cruel and bloodthirsty nations in the world and became one of the most inhibited, polite, orderly and tender-minded. The transformation diminished cruelty to animals, criminals, lunatics, and children (in that order); suppressed many cruel sports and games, such as bull-baiting; rid the penal code of about two hundred capital offences, abolished transportation [of criminals to Australia], and cleaned up the prisons; turned Sunday into a day of prayer for some and mortification for all."
Historian Harold Perkin
Conclusion
Conclusion
The Etiquette of Teas (High Tea, etc.)
Authors
- Thomas Hardy (U.K.)
- Rudyard Kipling (U.K.)
- Emily Dickinson (U.S.)
- Henry James (U.S.)
- Karl Marx, Charles Darwin
- Oscar Wilde (U.K.)
- Lewis Carroll (U.K.)
- Charles Dickens (U.K.)
- George Elliot (U.K.)
- Bronte sisters (U.K.)
- Christina Rossetti (U.K.)
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (U.K.)
Authors
Sources
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade
- https://prezi.com/5d6chnvvy1dy/society-roles-in-the-late-1800s/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/victoria_ministers_01.shtml
- https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/victorian-era-timeline
- https://prezi.com/_jwgocy31p1t/social-economic-political-life-in-england-1890s/
- https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1800.html
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/famine_01.shtml