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Literature Lesson - Victorian Period - Part 2
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Literature Lesson - Victorian Period - Part 2

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Today's Lesson

Literature Lesson - Victorian Period

Part 2: Charles Dickens

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Historical Context
The VICTORIAN AGE was a period of dramatic change that brought England to its highest point of development as a world power.


It was a complex era:
On one side PROSPERITY and MATERIAL SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS, ORDER, STABILITY, MORALISM and PHILANTHROPY

On the other side POVERTY, UGLINESS, CORRUPTION, MONEY, INJUSTICE, SOCIAL UNREST and CAPITALISTIC GREEDINESS     


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Moral crises/dilemmas:

Women’s rights
Rights of workers
Child labour
Non-British citizens (Brits felt superior to other races)
Love and marriage

All these dilemmas were discussed in literature

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Reader Page 13: Task 8a
What can you say about the tone of the fragment?

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What can you say about the tone of the fragment?
Critical of life in England and how people treat foreigners

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Reader Page 13: Task 8b
Submit Dickens's comments on foreigners and also submit those on Englishmen.

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Comments on foreigners and on Englishmen. 
  • Foreigners: uphill work (hard work), every foreigner had a knife, ought to go home to their own country, God’s will that they are not English, foreigners country didn’t do as well as England
  • Englishmen: God made them English (good thing), England does not experience bad times because it makes good decisions

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Finished!
You have finished today's lesson. 

You know more about the Victorian Period 
and a literary work from that time

You have also started preparing for your final test. 
Well done!

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