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Religion, Masculinity, Women, Industrial Rev, Fallen woman - Coggle Diagram
Religion, Masculinity, Women, Industrial Rev, Fallen woman
Religion
Vic values were based on the teachings of the bible- including adherence to 10 commandments which shaped Vic attitudes towards sexual relationships, marriage, death, and existence of an afterlife
It was a time of great psychological repression- sexual matters were not to be talked about, although they were encountered and thought about regularly
Women
With so little power, control, and independence, depression, and anxiety were common among Victorian women struggling to cope with a static existence under the thumb of strict gender ideals and unyielding patriarchy. This form of mental illness was known as female hysteria.
In patriarchal society matters of sexuality were forbidden to be discussed and women had enormous pressure to be pure and not express autonomous thoughts/emotions
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Fallen Woman
The term 'Fallen woman'- was usually associated with the lower classes- to women who strayed from the cult of virginity and true womanhood by giving in to seduction and sin.
Tess's innocence caused her burdens, despite the fact according to Victorian ways her 'fall' was a consequence of her own misconduct
Hardy's Goal= Alec's rape is to be blamed on himself and not Tess. He denounces the double standards that causes the fallen woman labelling.
Industrial Revolution
Tess and the dairymaids were the representatives of hired workers. they didn't go until the fall came and they were suffering torment and did the same work as men. Tess though one person-highlights many of the victims of this cruel society
After the industrial revolution, the business pattern of capitalism also slowly immersed into rural areas. the widespread usage of new agriculture put individual farmers into bankruptcy.
Ideas of Masculinity
"speculation and invention"-modernity, breakdown boundaries, take risks which is ironic on Victorian society which expected you to conform
"The man's power is active, progressive, defensive"- physicality, protective,
"often he must be wounded"- Angel doesn't have the strength to challenge society- plays at modernity but afraid to fight for Tess, when the truth is revealed he completely reverts to conventional Victorian attitudes (towards women)
John Ruskin's 1865 essay 'Of Queen's Garden' which presents Victorian ideas about men's role in society