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1. A compromise may be an agreement that satisfies different, most likely opposite or contrasting, ideas. As for its link with the Victorian Age, it would make sense if the Victorian Age had both positive and negative aspects, consequences or developments.
3. Noun: stability - duty - respectability - comfort - charity - patriarchy - chastity - prudery.
Adjective: stable - dutiful - respectable - comfortable - charitable - patriarch - chaste - prude.
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⦁ The Victorian Age was a complex and contradictory era: on the one hand, it was an age of progress, stability and great social reforms.
⦁ The Victorians were great moralists: they faced a large number of problems on such a scale, that they felt obliged to support certain values which offered solutions or escapes.
⦁ Thus they promoted a code of values that reflected the world as they wanted it to be, not as it really was, based on duty, hard work, respectability and charity.
⦁ The idea of being respectable distinguished the middle from the lower class.
⦁ Respectability implied the possession of good manners, the ownership of a comfortable house with servants and a carriage, regular attendance at Church, and charitable activity.
⦁ Philanthropy was a widespread phenomenon; it addressed itself to every kind of poverty, to “stray children, fallen women and drunk men” and absorbed the energies of thousands of Victorians, large numbers of whom were women.
⦁ The family was a patriarchal unit where the husband represented authority and the key role of women concerned the education of children and the managing of the house.
⦁ Sexuality was generally repressed in its public and private forms, and being prude in its most extreme manifestations led to the denunciation of nudity in art and the rejection of words with a sexual connotationfrom everyday vocabulary.
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⦁ Values were necessary as a point of reference in difficult or complex situations.
⦁ It was refined by upper and middle classes, but applied to all social classes.
⦁ Respectability was the criteria to distinguish social classes. People were supposed to work hard and respect their own duties; the family was based on hierarchical relationships; sexuality was a taboo subject and was generally repressed.
⦁ The compromise has to do with the both positive and negative aspects brought by the Victorian Era.