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Victorian Society Roc C, Hugo T, David L.
Victorian Society: Puritanism
What was the Victorian society?
The Victorian Society was a period of time characterized by its economy based on colonialism. This period of time is defined by the reign of Queen Victoria, between 1837 and the day of her death, 1901.
In the Industrial Revolution, the UK had a social structure that was divided in different classes. We could divide it into three classes: Upper class, Middle class and Lower class.
The upper class were the nobles and bourgeois who made a lot of money from the industry. The nobles inherited their degrees, but in the other way the industrialists had their fortunes because of their businesses.
The middle class was a very little part of the population, because the difference between the classes was so big so this made a lot of people become lower class.
The lower class was the majority of the population. A lot of people travelled to the cities to have better work but when they arrived it was so different from what they thought.
They found a reality full of misery, dirtiness and anti-hygienic conditions.
This class was so poor that as soon as a child could walk he had to start working.
Religion was so important in this era, so this gave much power to the church.
Between this period a new branch of christianity appeared, this was puritanism, who takes a very important part in the Victorian Society.
Puritanism defined different social statuses and different habits and prohibitions.
Puritanism.
Puritanism was born because a group of people who grew unhappy with the Church of England and worked for religious, moral and social reforms. Puritanism can be defined as a radical branch of Calvinist Protestantism.
The thoughts in the Victorian era were marked by morality and puritanism.
This was because of an exaltation of religious moral principles. Moral puritanism was the symbol that represented Queen Victoria, this made puritanism take an important part in this era.
Religious morality changed a lot during this era. When Victoria ascended to Queen, the Anglican Church was the most powerful. This power continued to rule in rural areas throughout the Victorian era, but it was not in industrialized cities. In the city were a lot of people against the church and the disagreement with the church was strong.
The Church demanded obedience to God, submission and resignation with the aim of making the church’s will more malleable in the people, aimed to serenade the will of the elite and cared little or nothing for the needs and desires of the lower peasant class.
Habits and prohibitions
The use of the railway became popular and spread throughout the territory. The British became very fans of traveling. Even Queen Victoria used to travel by train. It had luxuriously decorated private wagons.
The well-off classes were very fond of parties, meetings, social events, etc.
It was very common to have costume parties with very luxurious costumes.
The newspapers and magazines became so poùlar. Also novels that were sold from chapters. In many homes the family met together so the father can read the stories loudly.
Also there were a lot of books that were made to instruct women on their obligations.
Despite the formality of Victorian society, during this period, games became very important, both for children and adults: brain teasers, magic, riddles, sports and all kinds of recreational activities. For exemple chest.
prohibitions:
there were many prohibitions about sex but then on the streets you can find prostituts everywhere.
to enlarge the tableclothes
it was wrong for women to wax their body, they just used wax cream for her face and arms.
woman couldn’t earn more money than men.
if a woman goes to university everyone is going to look her bad.
Child labour
In that era the lower class children were used as cheap and useful workers while the upper class children had a very comfortable life.
The most known job in that society is chimney sweep, the children were very useful for that job because of their small size. This job consisted of lowering the entire chimney to untack and clean it.
It is said that one third of the children between 5 and 9 years old worked but when we talk about children between 10 to 14 years old it jumps to a half.
The book named Oliver Twist, written by Charles Dickens described the bad conditions that had the lower class children.
Women
Cinema made us know a type of life of a Victorian women that is not true, we haven’t seen them working, we have seen them with dresses but that’s not exactly their lives. The life that the cinema shows to us is an upper class women life but we are going to talk about the lower class women life.
In the Victorian era the society made huge social advances. One example is women rights but obviously if we look at it from our society right now it wouldn’t be enough.
Some examples of this advances of the women rights are:
- In case of divorce, mothers could get custody of their children under 7 years.
- They forbade that women work more than 12 hours
- Married women could have the money they earn and inherit.
- After the death of Queen Victoria, women could vote.
Not everything was advances, the police could submit the prostitutes to a medical exam and what’s worse, the police decided who was a prostitute and who was not a prostitute. The women who had any venereal problems were entered in an installation where they couldn’t go out until the venereal problems were solved.
Women of the Victorian society worked a lot, they did it with worse conditions than men, a man earned more money than a woman for the same job.
Victorian Society by David Lozano on Scribd
Friday, 19 February 2021
Industrial Revolution Iker G, Daniela M and Emma V.
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The Great Gatsby - Alejandro C, Santi M, Pol M, Oscar G.
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