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Lesson duration is: 30 min
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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.