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THE VICTORIAN AGE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - they had 9 children and their family life provided a model of respectability
        
        THE VICTORIAN COMPROMISE
        
        It was an age of progress but it coexisted with poverty an injustice
        
        Victoria belived in freedom that was linked with religion,optimism,political progress and national identity,
        
        RESPECTABILITY: general agreement on the virtues, social status and family, they keeping up the appereance
        
        Mixture of MORALITY and HYPOCRISIS
        
        Men provides to protect woman: physically weaker but morally superior. A woman without an husband but with a son was considered a fallen woman. Sexuality was repressed.
  - - - The Poor Law Amendment Act had reformed the old Poor Laws with the creation of workhouses
        
        institutions where the poor received board and lodging in return for work
        
        hard work and a monotonous diet
        
        This apparent hard line was due in part to an optimistic faith in progress and to the Puritan virtues of hard work, frugality and duty
        
        the idea was to inspire the poor to improve their condition
        
        Chartism
        
        Group of working-class radicals
        
        they demanding
        
        an equal electoral districts and an universal male suffrage
        
        The Irish Potato Famine
        
        caused by bad weather and unknown plant disease from America
        
        the Irish agriculture dependend on potatoes
    - - In 1851 a Great Exhibition showed the world Britain's industrial and economic power
        
        In 1851 a Great Exhibition showed the world Britain's industrial and economic power
        
        housed at the crystal palace
        
        a huge structure of glass and steel and erected in Hyde Park
        
        so money was invested in setting up several museums
        
        The building of the London Underground began in 1860
- - - - He bacemes a newspaper reporter and then a novelist
        
        The protagonists of his works deal with the experience of his own life, they became the SYMBOL OF EXPOILTED CHILDHOOD
        
        He shifts the social frontiest of novel=> the upper class was replaced by the lower ones
        
        Make the upper class aware about poor people condition
        
        He uses an effective language: adjective, repetitions, ironic remarks...
  - - - An orphan who lives in a workhouse, he falls into the hand of a gang PICKPOCKETS, and he was adopted by the man he tries to steal, Mr. Brownlow. He was kidnapped by a member of the gang but he returns to Mr. Brownlow and he discovers that he has noble origins.
    - - 1) Parochial world of workhouse: rich and insensible
      - 2)Criminal word: pickpockets
      - 3)Victorian middle class: respectable people with moral values
- - - - He beacame a disciple of Walter Peter and accepting the theory of "Art for Art"
        
        He was a Dandy beacuse he style was characteristic and eccetric
        
        In 1881 he published a collection called Poems
        
        The most important masterpieces were The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Imporatance of Being Earnest
        
        Set in a 19th century London it's the story of a young men, DORIAN GRAY, whose beauty fascinates a painter BASIL HALLWORD that paints his portrait. Dorian also know a rich man, LORD WOTTON, who teachs him to live a life of pleasure.
        
        He desires eternal youth and when he was satisfied the signs of age appears on the portrait: a corrupted images. At the end Dorian dead and the portrait returns to the original beauty.
        
        The preface that is Wilde's decadent poetry's "opinion": art has no moral rules,it doesen't have to prove anything, it doesen't being judje and doesn't have to teach. ART FOR HIS OWN SAKE
        
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        The painter's studio: Wilde uses word that make us think about his cynical, witty and decadent world through the dialogue and Bail's word
        
        The fist act set in London
        
        there are mey characters: Algernon Moncrieff, Lady Bracknell , Earnest is Jack Worthing alterego
        
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        He rejected the didacticism that had characterise the Victoria novel in the first half of the century