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    Cruelty during the Victorian Era is similar to the present day because people beat animals as punishment. However in the present day more people are hoarding animals as a result of being emotionally troubled rather than having a criminal motive‚ and people have started to stand up against abusive behavior towards animals. Maltreatment of animals has been present since before the Victorian Era‚ and even after decades the same type of abuse has not gone away. In the Victorian Era the common way to control

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    Victorian Era The victorian era sets a time period where the classes began to develop and set people in their places. Most classes began to catch feelings for each other and that started a conflict between them all. The lower classes did not bet the experience that the upper classes did. The housing‚ jobs‚ society‚ foods‚ and a lot of other things differed between these classes. Prisons were also a focus in the victorian era because of what they were used for. The middle

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    Fashion was a very big subject in the Victorian Era. Fashion was truly some of the richest people’s worries on a day to day basis. They would always ask themselves‚ ‘What am I going to wear today?’ which could be easily answered...sometimes. In the Victorian Era it was always a dress for women and a suit for men. Nowadays it seems like our daily mission is to wear anything tight fitting but that’s otherwise. Starting here will be plenty of information on the Victorian Era‚ specifically the men dress.

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    Hospitality In the Victorian era there was a thing called hosting‚ Do know what hosting is? Hosting is a butler that welcomes people to a tea party or dinner and announce their names. Then they also walk around serving food and other treats such as drinks. They also introduce you to new people and give you something to talk about. Hosting is important in the Victorian era if you wanted to have a tea party. If you wanted to have a tea party‚ you have to get a host. Because when you invite people

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    During the Victorian Era‚ there was a jurassic difference between the lifestyles of social classes‚ one being the types of food they ate. Lower class families would live off of small serving sizes and the majority of the food that they ate were either low quality and not healthy. The higher class dined off of larger servings to the point where they had leftovers and were fortunate to have three meals a day. The staples that made up a meal for a lower class family consisted of bread‚ sugar‚ butter

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    The Victorian Era and The French Lieutenant ’s Woman The French Lieutenant ’s Woman is a 1981 film of historical fiction‚ contrasting present day relationships‚ morality and industry with that of the Victorian era in the 1850s. It is an adaptation of a novel by John Fowles‚ the script was written by Harold Pinter. The setting is in England‚ Lyme and London specifically‚ where Charles‚ a Darwinian scientist is courting the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The film depicts Charles as

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    incorporated many of the same themes from the Victorian/Gothic literary period. In the Victorian England society‚ women were considered weak and inferior to men‚ which is why many believed they functioned best for society in the home taking care of the husbands and children. (Hughes‚ n.p.). Women were supposed to view marriage as a way to raise a family instead of using it to fill an emotional or sexual void. (Hughes‚ n.p.). The “ideal woman” in the Victorian era was one who was fully devoted to her family

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    * The Victorian era in Britain was not democratic. The British did not practice modern democracy yet. * Britain was a ’class’ society and the upper class (the rich‚ those with landed estates and titles) still ran everything. * So ’class’ was important. Birth order was important because titles‚ estates‚ family fortunes in Britain would only go to the first born with the others in the birth order getting far less depending on their place in the order or nothing. * Legitimacy was important

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    Imperial Britain in the Victorian Era: A Time of Change During the Victorian era‚ the British Empire thrived as the most powerful imperial force in the world. It was a time of great change: in addition to continued expansion of the empire‚ there were also many advances in science‚ as well as the start of an industrial revolution. According to Eric Hobsbawm‚ there are three primary demands a state makes in terms of public art and architecture: “the first is to glorify power itself‚ which in the European

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    During the Victorian Era in England‚ people were divided into three social classes: The Aristocracy‚ or the Upper class‚ the Middle class‚ and the Working class. Ninety-five out of a hundred people were in either the “middle” or “working” social class. The Aristocracy was essentially made up of the politicians‚ company owners‚ and nobility. Unlike the Middle class or the Working class‚ these people did not work for a living. Their wealth came from ancestors’ land or money inheritances. The Middle

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