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victorian age, carlyle - Coggle Diagram
victorian age
compromise
doubleness
gap between private and public life
utilitarianism
jeremy bentham
everything was accettable if it was useful
opposites were both tolerated
condition
respect of decency
pruderie
sexual repression
strait-laced morality
hypocrisy
rise of the number of prostitutes
social reforms
elementary education act
against illiteracy
increased number of readers
right of a basic education to all children
metropolitan police
ten hours act
restrict women and chidren working hours
indipendent labour party
substitutes the whigs
more liberal
trade unions act
workers union are allowed
political point of view
peace
only crimea war
colonialism
empress of India
british empire
commonwealth
trading
label
net
colonies
raw materials
low cost
manufacured
sold at an high cost
territorial expansion
ethical and spiritual mission
“Colonising poor countries is the white man’s burden"
(R. Kipling)
self-justification
economical point of view
manifacturing industry
workshop of the world
expansion
1837-1901
Victoria's reign
influential
literary point of view
three periods
early
1837-50
Dickens
entusiasm-optimism
faith
merry england
mid
1850-90
Caroll
Alice
she is so confuse she can't even measure herself because she is too focused on the outer world
doubt
intellectual elites question the status quo
late
1890-1901
wilde
hidden criticism
1851
great exhibition
celebration of the british advances
carlyle
not so merry england