The Victorian Period and Literature

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Culture is the explanation and sophistication attained through education and the revelation to the arts. Culture is not only ethnicity, but also and customs and philosophy. In Culture Learning: The Fifth Dimension on the Language Classroom Damen claims, “Culture is mankind’s primary adaptive mechanism”, to illustrate his personal definition of culture (Maximizing web). Culture can easily be effected by many things such as an idea. For example, Jeremy Bentham was the founder of Utilitarian which is the belief that actions are right if they achieve the happiness of many; numerous people opposed Bentham’s philosophy because minority interests were not included (Cruttenden 86). The culture of a time period can affect the future in many distinguishing ways such as with wonderful works of art, or with advances in technology and science.

The term Victorian exemplifies things and proceedings during the presiding of Queen Victoria; Victoria became queen of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837 (World Book 320). Queen Victoria’s control ended in 1901when she passed away (Holt 874). “The Victorian age was not one, not single, simple, or unified, only in part because Victoria's reign lasted so long that it comprised several periods” (Landow web). The Victorian age was a time of change because of the many advancements in science and technology (Cruttenden 4). Many of the cultural effects presented in the literature of the Victorian Era are philosophical, political, religious, and social. “The Victorians had unbounded confidence in progress—but this confidence led to uncomfortable questions” (Holt 878). The Victorians became skeptical about their spiritual and conventional principles (World Book 320-321). The culture of the Victorian Period has be...

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