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VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901) - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901)
BRITISH EMPIRE
it was the most powerful and largest nation in the world
20% of the world surface
25% of the world population
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
frenetic phase
with
BAD THINGS
like:
- poor housing conditions with long working hours and diseases (for example tubercolosis);
- a lot of poor, deprived people concentrated in certain areas of city.
GOOD THINGS
like:
- greater prosperity for upper and middle classes;
- rapid change as cities expanded very fast.
VICTORIAN COMPROMISE
contradictory era
poor people
injustice
rich people
MORAL CODE
as middle class and upper middle class wanted it to be, not the reality
hard work
respectability
good manners
going to church
home with servants
charity
FAMILY
HUSBAND = authority
WIFE = submissive
fallen women
SEXUALITY= repressed
chastity
CONSUMER REVOLUTION
demand for more goods
more consumers
desire to climb the social class (working class -> middle class)
boosted shopping