Victorian england

Crime was a major issue during the Victorian Age in England. Crime rates were high during that time period because of the high amount of poverty. Poverty often led people to steal things in order to survive. Burglary and shoplifting were some of the most common forms of crime that occurred. Moreover, crime was especially abundant in juveniles. Fortunately, the high crime rates diminished with the establishment of the police system. Crime was widespread and very common in the poorest working classes

England, a old power in Europe, sought greater success and power during a time when the world was changing. England made innovations in industry and business while using politics to further benefit those innovations. Building an overseas empire at the time further fueled the economy, which resulted in Englands power growing exponential. During the turn of the Victorian Age1, to the Modern Era, politics in England were relatively simple and saw few conflicts with the surprisingly successful reign

Class Issues and Gender Roles in Victorian England Victorian England was a period where women faced enormous financial uncertainty and social vulnerability. Due to a prevailing social construct of gender and gender roles, women of the time were perceived as the weaker sex thus belonged to the domestic sphere. As a result of this, there were very few prospects for a single woman with regards to improving her socioeconomic status other than through marriage. Jane Austen’s Emma and Anne Bronte’s The

Failure to abide by gender roles in Victorian England could have a variety of consequences from the minor to the extreme. Blanche Ingram is a good example of this. Blanche is the rude materialistic daughter of one of Mr. Rochester’s neighbors. At one point she says, in front of Jane , “we all know them: danger of bad example to innocence of childhood; distractions and consequent neglect of duty on the part of the attached” (Brontë 337). In this scene, Blanche and some of Rochester’s other guests

An aristocratic family of four await in their horse-drawn carriage for the local pedestrians to cross the busy streets of Victorian England. The chilly winds of late December froze the family amidst the loud but muffled conversations from all of the other Victorians who were struggling to reach home for Christmas. Suddenly, intricately detailed, delicate pieces of white dust began to sprinkle from the darkening, evening sky. A deafening sound echoed from the muffled noises, causing chaos within the

of the word in Victorian England which implied a high set of social standards. In Victorian England, social classes were determined by a person's economic status, whereas being a gentleman was determined by a man’s social status and required a certain amount of chivalry, resulting in , strict social classes with an extremely poor quality of life for subjects of the lower classes. Gentlemanship was something that was not taken lightly, and highly sought after in Victorian era England; being a gentleman

“Child Labor in the Victorian England.” YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 01 Sept. 2015. • Factories hired children because they are smaller than adults and they are cheaper. • Children could start working at the age of 7. • The boys had to work in the coalmines and the girls had to work in the cotton mills. • Trappers are the people who worked in coalmines who had to sit and wait for the wagons of coal to come. • The average lifespan for coal workers was 25. • In 1819 an act was passed to make it illegal

Whiskers: A Growing Fashion Prior to the Victorian era, men in England maintained cleanly shaven faces. With the mid-eighteen hundreds came a widespread shift toward facial hair in a multitude of styles (Camellia). The ability to grow whiskers began to be regarded as a sign of manhood. In pictures and photographs from the era, it is rare to find a male, past the age of manhood, depicted without facial hair in some capacity. As the century continued, the preferred style of facial hair grew progressively

“Harsh punishment was inflected on those who were seen as staying from God’s work” The Puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the Church of England and worked towards religious, moral, and societal reforms.” Puritans were not only sexist, but were overly strict and obsessive about church. Puritans were overly strict about their morals and beliefs. Men and women were severely punished if committed serious crimes. If a child curses at his/her parents they will be sentenced to death

It was in the rise of English Tudor (1485-1603) and Stuart ( 1603-1689) that punishment took several interesting twists (Mays & Winfree, 2009). It was before this time that more than 200 crimes were all punishable by death. It was also during this time that those that committed lesser crimes were punished with corporal punishment. It was during Tudor and Stuart that the punishments were changed. The punishment was given more on what the crime was instead of one punishment for all crimes. They began