Notes about the Victorian Age (2/5/12)

All the expectations of the Industrial Revolution show, during the middle of the 19ieth century, their weakness. The situation in industries, the work of children... is presented by the Victorian novel, that usually presents also a love story. In the novel the writer presents also the trends of thought of the period, that are Utilitarianism, Puritanism and Darwinism. So, it is possible to say that the Victorian novel is a container of its society.
The intelligent reader realizes immediately that the writer puts him to side with a character or a group of characters. It is due to the conception of the world of the Victorian Age: people think that there is only the good and the evil, the right and the wrong, without a shade of meaning.
In Victorian families the father is the center and the point of reference: he is presented as the good father of family, who takes care about his wife and his children. But, at the same time, there are a lot of brothels. So Victorians want to show a reality of perfection, but it is only a mask of a reality of crysis and desperation.