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The Victorian Age - Coggle Diagram
The Victorian Age
The Victorian Compromise
Complex Era:
- Age of progress due to the Industrial Revolution.
- Rising wealth of upper and middle classes.
- Stability and social reforms coexist with poverty, injustice, and social unrest
Victorian Moral Values:
- Victorians were moralizers, promoting values as solutions to societal problems.
- Values emphasized duties, hard work, respectability, and charity.
- Upper and middle classes refined and enforced these values, but they applied to all strata of society.
Emphasis on Hard Work:
- Belief in progress led to the idea that material progress came from hard work.
- Duty emphasized over personal inclination.
Respectability:
- Defined middle from lower classes.
- Mix of morality and hypocrisy, conformity to social standards.
- Included good manners, comfortable living conditions, church attendance, and charity.
Philanthropy:
- Wide-reaching, applied to various forms of poverty.
- Engaged many Victorians, especially women.
Family Life:
- Patriarchal unit with husband as authority figure.
- Women responsible for child-rearing and household management.
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