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VICTORIAN AGE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - COLONIAL EMPIRE
        
        India→Jewel in the Crown
        East India Company→Closed
        
        Australia: British model
      - THE CHARTIST MOVEMENT
        (political rights for working classes)
        
        Britan conservative
        Few people voted
        
        People’s Charter for basic principles→rejected many times
- - - - A PROBLEM CALLED POVERTY
        
        Poverty was a normal problem
        WORKHOUSE→provide work and shelter
        
        Became prison systems.
        
        Synonymous with the Victorian era
      - WOMEN IN VICTORIAN SOCIETY
        
        An angel in the house
        Rights almost nonexistent
        Bronte sisters→different from Jane Austen
- - - - Themes
        
        Critique industrial society and education methods
        Utilitarianism and dehumanization
        Gradgrind's method. Facts. No imagination→fails
        Utilitarianism
    - - Mother die→orphans house→workhouse→escape
        
        Work for undertaker
        
        Fagin’s house→pickpocket
        Mr Brownlow take Oliver with him→captured by Mr Fagin
        Burglary→Mayles adopt him
        
        Monks(half-brother) and Fagin try to captur Oliver
        Mayles (aunt), Mr Brownlow and Oliver go to live together
      - Themes of the novel
        
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        Horrible conditions in Institutions
        
        Injustice
        
        Children labour
        
        Victorian idea
        
        Poor law (workhouse)
  - - - Dandy→elevate aesthetics to a religion (aristocratic superiority)
      - Walter Pater→Aesthetics→art for art’s sake (no for political, didactic…)
        a reaction to Utilitarianism
    - - .
        
        Style and Technique→ 3rd person, identification between reader and narrator, use allegory (legend of Faust), duality→picture is dark side
        
        The Preface→ Manifesto of the Aesthetic movement:
        
        BEAUTY IS TRUTH
  - - - Themes:
        
        Settings:
        
        Blake: contraries togheter
        
        Gothic novels