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VICTORIAN FRAME OF MIND - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN FRAME OF MIND
Victorian values
- Hard work > material progress
- Belief in progress > optimism
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- Insistence on punctuality, diligence and good behaviour
- Philanthropy (see Evangelicalism)
- Civic pride and nationalism > Belief in their racial superiority >
- expansionism = mission ("the white man's burden")
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The idea of respectability was a mixture of morality and hypocrisy, severity and conformity to social standards.
RESPECTABILITY
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own a comfortable house with servants and carriage,
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CONTRADICTIONS
- exploitation in factories and workhouses, growth of slums, health problems,
- ignore the social problems (the miserable conditions of the working class, women and children's exploitation in factories and workhouses, growth of slums, health problems)
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THE VICTORIAN COMPROMISE
- situation full of contradictions
- Prosperity and progress on the one hand // poverty, ugliness and injustice on the other
- ethical conformity opposed to corruption, moralism and philanthropy versus capitalism.