The Victorian Middle Class

Despite the continuation of capitalism, the middle class successfully emerged as the dominating class in our society. As Lewis Corey states, “Workers were becoming capitalists, the capitalists becoming workers.” Industrial capitalism spawned a middle class, molded the exact same way that Marx predicted in his major work.

Ever wonder how the Victorian era class system worked?There were 3 classes,The class system was what kind of jobs and living you had.There were 3 classes Working class,Middle class, and Elite class.Once you were in a class it was near impossible to move up or down the classes.The working class never dreamed of moving up into a new class or leaving a class in any way shape or form(4).The Elite class was the rich and royalty,The middle class was the middle of the road and wasn’t laborious this was the most common class,The lowest class of the three is the working class the people who were on this class were the hardest workers in society.This was factory work and things of that nature(3).

Wealthy and poor women in Victorian England ate lunch only, since the men were out at work. While the men were out, the women drank “unladylike” things such as beer, ale, and cider with their food at bars. After more industries were introduced to England, the working class men got jobs at factories. These factories were further from home, so the men worked longer, stayed up later, and ate dinner later. The wealthy men and women also got home late to eat dinner, but it was not because they were out working, but because they were out partying. Gas lamps soon came out, and this helped the wealthy to stay up even later than they already did. Others followed their examples, so dinner was pushed back again to eight or nine at

Victorian-era Londoners were very rich or very poor - there was no “in-between”. These class distinctions are shown in many ways throughout the book, this includes: ‘ Hell’ ( east side ) vs. ‘Heaven’ ( West Side ), Jekyll Vs. Hyde, and Jekyll’s home.

The Victorian Era was a great time of prosperity for England, but not for everyone. During this time period in England, the lower classed suffered. The Industrial Revolution had many positive effect for society in general, but caused the lower class to suffer. Men’s wages declined, as a result women and children had to work to help support their families.

The Victorian Era was very highly known for how strict their social code and the strong sense of morality it had even though many of the British society didn’t follow the strictly code everyone else did. There were many rules to the “strict social code” that

Britain’s Victorian Era was one in which the status of a person affected how someone lived their whole life. Not only in how they lived, but also in appearance, how they presented themselves, and how others treated them. In the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontё, socioeconomic status and how it affected the citizens of England is shown through the character descriptions of John Reed, Jane Eyre -the main character-, and Miss Abbot.

The bourgeoisie is known as the middle class; the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour. The bourgeois society stemmed from the ruins of feudal society and class antagonisms. They valued the social concerns of preservation of capital and the value of property to ensure achievement in economic supremacy. The Bourgeoisie had the advantage that put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, and idyllic relations. For example, the Bourgeoisie tore apart varied feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors”, and has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious passion. During the Industrial Revolution, machinery was introduced, along with

The Victorian Era consists of three groups of the upper, middle, and lower class that differ in what and how they ate. The upper class had more etiquette and availability in what they ate compared to what the other classes had. The middle class were able to eat with what they made or bought, but not as much as the upper class had. The lower class had only a limited choice of what they ate. Although divided by separate groups, all classes had the same format of what to eat depending on time; starting with breakfast, then lunch, and lastly dinner.

Throughout the first half of the semester, we have consistently discussed and learned the impact of the Victorian Middle Class (VMC). One of the major topics was its influence on prizefighting, and how the culture and values of the Victorian Middle Class influenced its growth from a lowest of the low sport to a sporting spectacle viewed by all. The Victorian Middle Class culture’s influence on the transformation of prizefighting was due to a large number of ideas, especially its strict values, the sporting fraternity, along with the Civil War.

A world of class systems, the aristocracy and working class. a divide so vast people could not see the other side. following some of great minds of the Victorian era actively fighting this status quo notably Charles Dickens and his many books championing the ideas of social change at a time when it was considered dangerous to challenge the predefined views in society about the poor and working class. This world would come to an abrupt end, between screaming shells and the bloodshed of millions.

In the Victorian Era of England, society was divided amongst three groups, or classes. These classes included the upper class, the middle class, and the lower, or working class. Classism during Victorian times, although widely accepted, caused many problems such as judgement and destitution. The Upper Class was made up of Dukes, Nobles, and other wealthy aristocrats.

The inequality between social classes has persisted through generations. It was prevalent in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Victorian Era and even in modern times the inequalities can still be distinguished. Unfortunately, society reinforces social class ranks through media and widespread perception.

In this century, the 3 categories of classes couldn’t be more different and separated. The upper class enjoyed leisure, operas, balls and everything what had to do something with luxury and what none of the lower classes could afford. Aristocracy was well known by their morals and etiquette in the Victorian ages. The Victorian Aristocratic views on morals were extinguished which was even prudish. Prudery went as far as sexuality was a taboo, human body must have been covered and talking about body was inappropriate. In the Victorian Era society started to have different values in morality. Upper class people had low tolerance for sexuality and crimes, and isolated from any of the lower class members. Thus sexuality, especially prostitution was not acceptable and eminently discriminates in the Victorian high society.

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were full of evolving social and economic ideas. These views of the social structure of urban society came about through the development of ideas taken from the past revolutions. As the Industrial Revolution progressed through out the world, so did the gap between the class structures. The development of a capitalist society was a very favorable goal for the upper class. By using advanced methods of production introduced by the Industrial Revolution, they were able to earn a substantial surplus by ruling the middle class. Thus, maintaining their present class of life, while the middle class was exploited and degraded. At this time in history, social