Alpa Ponda
Sem 2
Batch 2016-2018
Paper No. 6
The Victorian Age
Submitted to :smt. S B Gardi department of English
Enrolment no: 2069108420170025
Mail ID: alpaponda.7@gamil.com
Topic : The history of Victorian age
and its background
Queen Victorian ruled on England from
1837 to 1901 so the period is called the Victorian age. This age has its own
dominant incidents which resulted into Literature such as the era witnessed the
issues like Growth of English democracy, the progress of industrialization, the problem of working class people. So
the wrters were forced to write on living issues. The new mind, strange ideas,
new men were accepted during this period. The origionality came in literature.
Victorian
age was remarkable for its political consciousness, material prosperity,
democratic reforms, industrial and mechanical progress, educational expansion.
The prose is in full bloom.The Victorian era was a peaceful reign. The people
were feeling safe under the ruling of queen. The writers didn’t hear any voice
drum of war.
Industrial
Revolution
The
industrial revolution started with the establishment of Mills and factories in
England. Industrial advancement also created social problems and discrimination
in the distribution of economy. The reacher became the reacher and the
poor became the poorer. The capilaist
world was taking a place. The air of social and economic unfair came. So the
two class came, aristocratic and working class.
Increased
the reading public
England was
taking concentration of increasing the numbers of people toward the education.
Education law was also passed. The people understood the value of reading so
the novels , fiction, poetry were written.
Growth of
population
There were a
tremendous change in the population. The first census in 1801 was about ten and
a half millions but by the survey of 1901 was about thirty seven millions.
Domestic
Life
The people
of this age were attacted towards the new of living life. The family was
conducted by the head of the home. The women were denied towards the education.
Women were sopossed to look after home and kids. They had limited rights. They
were in the four pillars. So the life was domestic. The people believed in
progress but they somehow did not throw away the rigid mentality but they were
habituated to apply in life.
We find
compromise in tree branches of life. The political field, field of religion and
the field of science.
Social
Reform
The writers
of the age wrote for the reformation of society. The aristocratic society was
presented in the literature. And the poor people were exploited by rich and
cruel.
Scientific
Development
The science
came in this era and people were attracted towards it. The publication of
Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species occurred. The people became rational in
thinking. They promoted the science. But the religion was there still.
The Literary
characteristics
The
Uniqueness of individuality
The
uniqueness of individuality came from their various style of writing
literature.they established the new methods of writing. In Lord Macaulay, we
find the energy and venture of era., Charles Dickens was an original writer in the world.in the works of Bronte sisters,
one finds the lonely way of life.
The age of
prose and novel
This age was promently known for the
novels. Writers like Charles Dickens,
Bronte sisters, Thomas Hardy. They were the eminnert novelists. Charles
Dicken’s Oliver Twist, Hard Times, A tale of two cities and Great Expectations.
Thomas Hardy’s Tess of D’ Urbervilles are the ice burg of the ocean.
Revolt
against materialistic approach
The writers
wrote on living issues. The problems of poor, discrimination of distribution
took place in life so the writers were forced to write on the living issues.
The novelist like Charles Dickens mostly wrote about the problems of poor
people and kid as there was a materialism. Rossetti looked into in the folklore
of the middle ages.
The Springs
of Romanticism
The literature
of the Victorian age was not cut off from the romanticism. Tennyson
.Browning and Arnold wrote the romantic
literature.
Pessimism,
Doubt and Despair
The Victorian
literature runs in pessimism, doubt and despair. Essayists like Macaulay,
Ruskin, Dickens, Hardy, Eliot inspire us with their faith and humanity .the
pessimism of life we find most in Dicken’s novels.
An Aroma of
Patriotism
The people
were dedicated to the nation. Patriotic feelings were their in the literature
of the writers .Byron also wrote on the country.
Conclusion
The Victorian
literature laid emphasis on man and women and their problems. We found materialistic
approach at the deep of the age. So as a result the age was a reaction or
revolt against materialistic approach
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