Characteristic of victorian age
- 1. Name :- Mansi R Parmar Roll No :- 16 Paper No :- 5 The Victorian Age Presentation Topic : Characteristic of The Victorian Age Enrolment No :- 2069108420170024 M A English Semester – 2 Batch Year :- 2016 -18 Submitted to :- Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
- 3. Introduction Born in 1819 Father died eight months later First language German Hindustani Didn’t go to school Studied history, geography, and the Bible
- 4. Taught how to play the piano and how to paint Became queen at 18 years of age in 1837 Married Albert , a German prince . 9 children
- 6. It was the time exactly comes after the Romantic age . The Victorian Age starts with the region of the Queen Vitoria . This age is also known as ‘ The compromise ’. William. J .Long in his book writes for this age “ THE MORDEN PERIOD OF PROGRESS AND UNREST” .
- 7. Conti…. Education al opportunities for women First women collage established in 1848 in London . Women could take degrees at twelve University collage .
- 8. It was a long period of peace , prosperity , refined , culture , great advancements in technology and national self confidence for Britain . It can be divided into two periods High Victorian literature late Victorian literature Conti…
- 9. What is a Victorian? The adjective “ Victorian” was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation’s mounting pride in its institutions and commercial success . This historical period is defined by the duration of monarch’s rule, rather than any one unifying idea as was the case with the Romantics .
- 10. Characteristics of the Victorian Age Intellectual Developments The new Education The Revolt Industrial Revolution
- 11. Morality This shows that slowly the people were losing the free meaning of literature and that is why during this time novel as well as prose was the popular forms. We read the fun and sentiment of Dickens , the social miniatures of Thackeray, or the psychological studies of George Eliot , we find in almost every case a definite purpose to sweep away error and to reveal the underlying truth of human life . Immorality of morality starts during this time .
- 12. The Revolt During this time the human revolusion theory was proved by Darwin . So, now God was not one of the to create fear among the people . So, there was a kind of conflict between religion and science .
- 13. The New Education The Victorians came up with the idea that all children should go to school . They were the first people to ask whether it was right to allow children to work .
- 14. Industrial Revolution The industrial revolution rapidly gained pace during Victoria's reign because of the power of steam . Victorian engineers developed bigger , faster and more powerful machines that could run whole factories .
- 15. Intellectual time and development This time of a intellectual development On the Origin of species of Darwin shook to its foundations scientific thought . The first photographs were taken in the 1830 . The very first electric train was invited by a German in 1879 .