This presentation is about the Characteristics of the Victorian age.

1. Prepared by: Gohil. Devikaba. J
Roll no.: 05
Course No.:06
Course Name: The Victorian Literature
Topic Name: Characteristics of the Victorian
Age
Enrolment No. : Pg14101015
S. B. GARDI DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY

2. • It was the time exactly
comes after the
Romantic age.
• The Victorian Age
starts with the region
of the Queen Victoria
means from 1837.
Brief introduction of the age:

3. • This age is also known
as ‘The Age of
Compromise’.
• William. J. Long in his
book writes for this age
‘THE MODERN
PERIOD OF
PROGRESS AND
UNREST’
Brief introduction of the age:

4. Characterist
ics of The
Victorian
Age
Morality
The Revolt
Intellectual
Developments
The New
Education
Industrial
Revolution

5. • 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
mortality starts during this time.
Morality:

6. • During this time the human
revolution theory was
proved by Darwin.
• So, now God was not one of
the tool to create fear
among the people.
• So, there was a kind of
conflict between religion
and science.
The Revolt:

7. • ‘On the Origin of Species’
(1859) of Darwin shook to its
foundations scientific
thought.
• The first photographs were
taken in the 1830s.
• The very first electric train
was invented by a German in
1879.
Intellectual Developments:

8. • The Victorians came up with
the idea that all children
should go to school, and they
checked to make sure the
schools were up to scratch
too.
• They were the first people to
ask whether it was right to
allow children to work. They
introduced laws saying what
you could and could not
expect children to do.
The New Education:

9. • 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. This led to a
massive increase in the number of
factories.
• By 1870, over 1,00,000 steam
engines were at work throughout
Britain.
Industrial Revolution: