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| Pregunta | Respuesta |
| Social Class Context | - Lower/working classes make up majority of society -1867 Representations of People Act gave working men the right to vote -Lack of education for the lower class -Emmergence of new 'middle class' not birth and rank but 'new money' |
| Social Class Prose | -'Men of the same level ... Took suddenly the different positions of mothers and men' = Gaskell (Mr Thornton) -'an untiring readiness to help and pity one another' = Dickens (Sleary's Circus) -'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little , I am soulless and heartless?' = Brontë |
| Social Class Poetry | ''We fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck' = Davidson 'Feel thats the proper thing for you' = Davidson 'You never give a look, not you' = Barrett Browning 'Assist me to discover' = Barrett Browning |
| Social Class Plays | 'In my young days, Miss Worsley, one never met anyone in society who worked for their living' = Wilde 'And if you give bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.' = Wilde 'What do I care about tiresome society?' = Ibsen (Nora) |
| Women Context | 'Angle in the House' seen as the ideal women, a docile wife 1870s - first women's only universities |
| Women Prose | 'Like a puppet' = Hardy (Tess in response to Alec) 'Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me?' = Hardy 'A Pure Women' = Hardy 'And we stood at God's feet, equal - as we are!' = Brontë (Jane to Rochester) 'I am a free human being with an independent will' = Brontë |
| Women Poetry | 'He wants my world, my sun, my heaven / Soul, body, whole existence' = Barrett Browning 'Forfeit all things by him' = Barrett Browning 'Reluctantly we undergo / Domestic round of boiled and roast' = Levy 'We are no more content to plod' = Levy |
| Women Plays | 'The place will only be bareable for a mother now.' = Ibsen (Torvold) 'It was a tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning money. It was like being a man.' = Ibsen (Nora) |
| Empire Context | By 1900, the British Smpire was the biggest empire in the world, amounting to approximately 1/5th Victorians + Maps Missionaries, Social Darwinism & White Mans Burden |
| Empire Prose | 'Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy, and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race' = Brontë (St John, as a missionary) 'In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' = Conrad 'A large shining map....there was a vast amount of red-' = Conrad |
| Empire Poetry | 'Noble six hundred' = Tennyson 'Not tho' the soldier knew / someone had blunder'd ' = Tennyson 'Take up the White Man's burden / send forth the best ye breed' = Kipling 'To seek another profit / and work another's gain.' = Kipling |
| Empire Plays | 'Her chief renown is for a readiness to keep her in a state of tropical humidity' = Stoppard |
| Education Context | Elementary Education Act 1880 passed law = required for children 10 and under to attend school |
| Education Prose | 'Doing battle with ignorance' = Gaskell (stated by Mr Thornton) 'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts.' = Dickens 'There is a wisdom of the Head, and there is a wisdom of the Heart.' = Dickens 'Have you a heart?' .... 'It is accessible to Reason, sir.' = Dickens (Gradgrind & Bitzer) |
| Education Poetry | 'Thirst of thirsts' = Lee-Hamilton 'Simpleton' & 'naked child against hungry wolf' = Davidson |
| Education Plays | 'If knowledge isn't self knowledge it isn't doing much' 'Educated beyond eligibility' 'As her tutor you have a duty to keep her in ignorance' = Stoppard |
| Industry Context | Started with textiles industry Middle class / New money Emmergence Less employment in agriculture, more in factories = overcrowding in cities |
| Industry Prose | 'Hands' 'Endless, endless noise and sickening heat' = Gaskell (Bessy) 'We are the kind of people who know the value of time' = Dickens (Bounderby) 'Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in' = Dickens 'Serpents of smoke trailed themselves forever and ever' = Dickens |
| Industry Prose | 'Is it likely that God, with Angels singing round him, / Hears our weeping anymore' 'Slaves without Liberty in Christdom' 'Child's sob in the silence curses deeper / Than the strong Man in his wrath' = Barrett Browning |
| Industry Plays | 'It is an unendurable noise' 'The ceaseless, dull, overbearing monotomy of it!' = Stoppard |
| Science & Knowledge Context | Origin of the Species by Darwin published, 1859 By 1870, widely accepted |
| Science & Knowledge Prose | 'Such unscientific balderdash' 'The face of a man who was without bowels of mercy' 'The man seems hardly human' = Robert Louis Stevenson (describing the scientist) |
| Science & Knowledge Poetry | 'Thirst of thirsts' 'God so long forbade' 'With any human hesitation shake' = 'Lee-Hamilton' |
| Science & Knowledge Plays | 'What matters is the calculus. Scientific progress.' 'If knowledge isn't self knowledge it isn't doing much' = Stoppard |
| Religion Context | Expansion of the empire lead to missionaries Differing Christianity, including evangelicals Some believed children were 'evil' |
| Religion Prose | 'I have faith: I am going to God.' = Brontë (Helen) 'God did not give me my life to throw away.' = Brontë 'One idea still throbbed...a remembrance of God' = Brontë 'The greater the sinner, the greater the Saint' = Hardy |
| Religion Poetry | 'Pale and defeated' & 'the great Jehovah is laid low' = Levy 'God so long forbade' = Lee-Hamilton 'Then I would bear it' = Hardy |
| Religion Plays | 'Fallen women' & 'sinners' 'Let them both be branded...don't punish one and let the other go free.' |
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