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Victorian Compromise
Jessica De Almeida Fernandes
Created on November 9, 2023
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The Victorian Compromise
- The Victorian were greater moralisers -> felt obliged to advocate certain values.
- The need to work hard -> 19th century believed in progress, so material progress emerges from hard work.
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- Victorian age insists on the sense of duty rather than on personal inclination. Diligence, good time-keeping, good behaviour were rewarded.
- Idea of respectability distinguished the middle from the lower class.
- Respectability = mixture of both morality and hypocrisy, conformity to social standards, such as: possession of good manners, ownership of a house with servants and carriage, regular attendance at church, charitable activity.
- Philanthropy was a Victorian phenomenon addressed to every kind of poverty: "stray children, fallen women, drunker men".
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- Victorian family life and bourgeois ideals: family as a patriarchal unit, husband was dominant, while woman has to obey the authority, manage servants and budgeting, child-rearing.
- Single women with a child were ostracised.
- Sexuality was repressed in public and private forms -> it includes denunciation of nudity in arts and rejection of words with sexual connotations.
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Study method
- Ideas of racial superiority: belief that the races were divided by physical and intellectual differences -> some were destined to be led by others.
- Religion vs science vs belief.
- Darwin presented his theory of natural selection and evolution. His theory discarded the version of creation given by the Bible. It shows that the strongest survived and the weakest deserved to be defeated.
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