V6 - Literature Lesson - Victorian Period Part 2

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Literature Lesson - Victorian Period - Part 2

Today's Lesson

Literature Lesson - Victorian Period

Part 2: Charles Dickens

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     

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

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

What can you say about the tone of the fragment?

Critical of life in England and how people treat foreigners

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

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
  

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!