Angel in the House-Patmore Ideals of Women
The Rise of the Fall
From the expansion of empires and political breakthroughs to the rise of evangelical movements and morality; The Victorian age had it all. Utilitarianism, evolutionism, determinism and a handful of human-oriented movements emerged during that vicious time. A vague mix of poverty, unemployment, repression, morality and religion raided the eighteen hundreds. Industry rose, leaving no room for inferior topics at the time: romance. Such a battle field-like environment leaves no room but to question the place of women in the mist of all that heterogeneousness of sex and role. Queen
Victoria-the manikin everyone wanted to resemble- was without any doubt the center of gravity that Victorian women revolved about. Domesticity, morality, motherhood and piousness drew the painting of the queen’s personality. Henceforth, Victorian women were piously patient, respectably devoted, virtuously moral and above all; angels in their households, a perfectly molded mix of submissiveness, gentleness and love.
One of the most prevailing traits of women at that age is submissiveness. For clarity’s sake, submissiveness of Victorian women was not as that of another age.
“Another, not from her, but him; while she, too gentle even to force” says Patmore in his
\Angel in the House poem. It is obvious that Patmore pointed out the gentleness of his wife as for not arguing with him. Consequently, one can infer that the type of submissiveness of women at that age was more of a virtuous one. Victorian women were purposely submissive due to the social patterns that were present at that age; where a woman’s image would seize to be that of an angel should she mess up her domestic life.
“She leans and weeps against his breast, and seems to think the sin was hers” says
Patmore in his poem. Piousness and virtue were also dominating traits Victorian women had embedded in their personalities. For a tired politician, home would feel like heaven as opposed to his
From the expansion of empires and political breakthroughs to the rise of evangelical movements and morality; The Victorian age had it all. Utilitarianism, evolutionism, determinism and a handful of human-oriented movements emerged during that vicious time. A vague mix of poverty, unemployment, repression, morality and religion raided the eighteen hundreds. Industry rose, leaving no room for inferior topics at the time: romance. Such a battle field-like environment leaves no room but to question the place of women in the mist of all that heterogeneousness of sex and role. Queen
Victoria-the manikin everyone wanted to resemble- was without any doubt the center of gravity that Victorian women revolved about. Domesticity, morality, motherhood and piousness drew the painting of the queen’s personality. Henceforth, Victorian women were piously patient, respectably devoted, virtuously moral and above all; angels in their households, a perfectly molded mix of submissiveness, gentleness and love.
One of the most prevailing traits of women at that age is submissiveness. For clarity’s sake, submissiveness of Victorian women was not as that of another age.
“Another, not from her, but him; while she, too gentle even to force” says Patmore in his
\Angel in the House poem. It is obvious that Patmore pointed out the gentleness of his wife as for not arguing with him. Consequently, one can infer that the type of submissiveness of women at that age was more of a virtuous one. Victorian women were purposely submissive due to the social patterns that were present at that age; where a woman’s image would seize to be that of an angel should she mess up her domestic life.
“She leans and weeps against his breast, and seems to think the sin was hers” says
Patmore in his poem. Piousness and virtue were also dominating traits Victorian women had embedded in their personalities. For a tired politician, home would feel like heaven as opposed to his