A Social Morality Of The Victorian Age

The 1920’s was an age of dramatic social and political change, and most people knew this time as ‘the roaring twenties’. Most Americans lived in the cities rather than on farms and this was due to the nation’s total wealth was more than doubled and this economical growth took many Americans into the consumer society. Consumerism is the theory that it is economically attractive to encourage the attainment of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts. As money was something that everyone was willing to spend people would lose morality and not spend their money wisely. The prohibition of alcohol, adultery and wealth played a big part in the 1920’s which effected the importance of morality.

The world today consists of children roaming the streets, technology taking over the world, and being able to work wherever you'd like but, could you imagine a life without all these things? Believe it or not there was a time in life where these things were very uncommon to see. This would be known as the victorian era. This time period was between 1837 and 1901. Daily life was very different from now. Health, social classes, and fashion are just three examples of how daily life was different in the victorian era.

  The Victorian era in England marked a period of unprecedented technological, scientific, political, and economic advancement.  By the 1840s, the English had witnessed remarkable industrial achievements including the advent of the railways and the photographic negative.  They had witnessed the expansion of the Empire, and, as a result, were living in a time of great economic stability.  Yet they had also seen thousands of people starving-and dying-due to the Irish potato famine and poor conditions and benefits in British factories and witnessed the entire order of society questioned as the working classes began to demand representation in Parliament.    The English also experienced biological

The Industrial Revolution generated the perception that applying solely logic to everyday activities could maximize productivity and efficiency. Charles Dickens explores the dangers of neglecting emotions and imagination in his novel Hard Times. Dickens separates Hard Times into three books: Sowing, Reaping and Garnering in order to reveal the negative consequences of industrialization and forsaking imagination for facts through the events, settings, and characters in the novel.

“Manifest destiny”, the effects of industrialization, and the addition of millions of immigrants to American ranks mark America as it stood in the 1800’s. The introduction of a plethora of differing cultures and traditions meant that ideas of what it meant to be American were still forming as the country surged into its position as a global powerhouse. The “wild, wild West” had made its appearance as the Homestead Act of 1862 beckoned large numbers of landless citizens seeking to remedy such circumstances (Peopling of the West, 51). At the same time, Victorian standards for dress and poise still permeated the American middle-class. These strange cultural amalgamations of America in the 1800’s proved to be catalysts for the change that the turn of the century brought in – the millions of Americans on whose back the country had flourished sought recompense in the form of leisure to match their work. While the 1800’s had been chock full of Victorian values and industrious yearnings, the 1900’s entered with a demand for less rigorous social expectations. The Victorian values instilled in middle-class Americans were faced with a sudden challenge in the form of amusement parks that offered overburdened workers a respite from their dreary work days. While this new entertainment excluded some races, it allowed more classes and ethnicities to intermingle, enticed women from their traditional roles in the home, and disregarded the standards Victorian values had set for respectable

Queen Victoria 's reign saw a great change in industrialisation alongside social change which affected a variety of people and classes.

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Industrialization produced many changes in the normal day to day life of the people of Victorian England. The enlargement of the middle class, in population and fortune, caused a large order for merchandise and workers. Victorian England found many problems when trying to deal with the enlargement of the amounts of people. Massive amounts of people were attracted to England, specifically London, to find an occupation

After William IV died, his niece, Victoria, became the Queen of England, starting the victorian era. In Victoria’s reign, the British Empire came to cover over ¼ of the world. The Industrial revolution is created during her reign, producing more products available to the common people of England. On the down side, people working in the mill had a hard life.

Queen Victoria is one of the most well-known historical monarch in human history, she made the British Empire into the main world power during her time and ushered in the famous Victorian era during the 1800s. The Victorian era is known by scholars to be the Pax Britannia of the English people, it is a period that was filled with highly moralistic language and sense of morality that is sharply different from British culture before the rise of Queen Victoria. The industrial revolution was in full bloom during the Victorian era, which saw most of the Europe and the Americas to become fully industrialized or on their way of becoming fully industrialized. Sadly, the imperialism that Victoria morality created would lead the world into the “War to

Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned British writers with well-known and widespread work. Dickens was born in England in 1812 and died in 1870. During this time, Victorian England experienced an Industrial Revolution, which impacted his life tremendously. New factories and industrial machinery changed many lives of the lower class citizens. The family grew up impoverished and struggled to maintain a good lifestyle. The family’s financial situation was strained as John Dickens, Charles’s father, spent money that the family didn’t have. These societal factors were influential in Charles Dickens’s life, and the same themes present themselves in his works. When an author creates a work, frequently themes of their life events are incorporated into the theme of the book, consciously or unconsciously. Victorian Age industrial-influenced strife was a common theme in Dickens’s life and presented itself throughout Dickens’s books.

The implications of religion during the Victorian Era allowed for the existence of a society that would be considered controversial when compared to the type of social world we live in today. The people of the Victorian era held religion so dear to them that it affected gender roles, dress, and overall behavior to the point that we are now left to interpret whether the “proper” standards of living at the time were reasonable, or just a result of a fervent devotion to religion. It’s difficult to understand the reason why certain traditions were followed during the Victorian Era, without taking into consideration the religious reasoning behind it. Out of all the influences that Victorian tradition consists of religion, perhaps is the greatest determining factor in analyzing why this certain conduct was considered normal and just, mainly because a number of sins were sought to be avoided out of the fear of the supernatural, or a holy power. The goal of this research is to present the cause of certain trends during the Victorian Era as a result of religion and to show how greatly this deviates from the common trends in today’s society. Evaluating religion during the Victorian Era may also be helpful in explaining why social interactions in modern time differ so greatly from that of the past.

The Victorian Period was a great influence to the authors who composed novels at that time where distinctions between social classes as well as between men and women were strongly marked. During this period, it was precisely a woman who ruled. Alexandrina Victoria who was born on May 24, 1819 became Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from June 20, 1837 until her death on January 22, 1901. Victoria’s reign was one of the longest of a female in history. At only the age of 18, after her uncle William Henry IV died, she began a span of 63 years of reign. In spite of her independence and power, Victoria fell into a deep depression when her husband died in 1861 and ever since she wore black every day for the rest of her

Victorian morality describes the moral views and social expectations of people living at the time of Queen Victoria's rule from 1837 to 1901 which completely contrasted any morality in pervious eras. Victorians encouraged hard work, morality, social respect and religious conformity. Today, the term “Victorian morality” can describe any set of values that exercise sexual restraint, intolerance of criminality and a strict social code of conduct. The word "Victorian" has a wide range of connotations, most specifically the high moral standards, but today the Victorian era is usually associated with “prudishness” and “repression”.

great prosperity in Great Britain's literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious, the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable. The novels of Charles Dickens, the poems of Alfred,