Nothing mattered back in Victorian Britain, except money and wealth. No one mattered unless you had money and if you didn’t bless your hard working soul, because if you didn’t have enough money to support yourself or family you were already dead. Unfortunately kids worked far faster than adults and most parents didn’t make the kind of money to send their children off to school so the rich factory owners seized the opportunity and tricked many children into working for free and they kept doing it. Education was difficult for most children to get because of the fact that most families could not afford it. During this time if you could afford to go to school they still had lots of rules and high standards, and if they were not followed then …show more content…
Money was very tight in Victorian Britain, and it was hard to live if you didn’t have money, and most families did. So their children enslaved the day away working for the factories, or the farms for no pay. Families who couldn’t afford their child’s needs sold them for money to support themselves and watched their child work. If you got to go to school you learned the basic subjects similar to what is taught today, reading, writing, and math, but besides subjects they did punishments way different and it is what we would consider abuse, if children talked or did something wrong, there was no warnings it was a hit to the head and not with a hand, with a wooden ruler. Other punishments included writing sentences and the corner of shame. In 1870 child labor was somewhat banned, and every child 5 years of age and older was required to receive a basic education. Hopefully now you understand how easy our lives are today and how lucky we are to have a good opportunity to receive
With the gradual advancements of society in the 1800’s came new conflicts to face. England, the leading country of technology at the time, seemed to be in good economic standing as it profited from such products the industrial revolution brought. This meant the need for workers increased which produced jobs but often resulted in the mistreatment of its laborers. Unfortunately the victims targeted were kids that were deprived of a happy childhood. A testimony by a sub-commissioner of mines in 1842 titled Women Miners in the English Coal Pits and The Sadler Report (1832), an interview of various kids, shows the deplorable conditions these kids were forced to face.
The working class of Victorian England was a group that worked hard to stay out of poverty as well as off the streets Unlike the upper class they had minimal recreational time. Many different people have tried to account for the working class conditions and what they did in their spare time: “he could attend evening courses on scientific subjects or Latin or shorthand at a Mechanics’ Institution, or at one of the Working Men’s Colleges” (Picard The Working Class and Poor). This imposes that the men could take an educational course to get a better job. Also in their spare time, people would go to street vendors as opposed to markets so they could get food for a more affordable price (Picard The Working Class and Poor). W.J. Reader, a
In the 1700’s the early punishments were transportation, indentured, servitude, economic sanctions, public humiliation, pillory, stocks and ducking stools.
The Gilded Age – Troubled America’s Thin Veil Mark Twain coined the term “Gilded Age”, which was used to describe America’s economic boom, and correlative resurgence of civil unrest after the American Civil War. The word “Gilded” means covered in gold and Twain used this word to satirize America, as he saw the time of post-war prosperity as just a thin layer of gold concealing the economic struggle farmers faced, social tension and mistreatment faced by industrial workers, and political corruption by officials who used their power to line their own pockets. Technological improvements made during the late 1800s greatly improved the quality of life for middle-class Americans, but poorer agricultural workers suffered under new economic conditions.
The Gilded Age made its significance by making its mark towards the immigrants as well as the growth of industry. Increasing the demand for lumber, gold, and silver to be used towards the improvement of transportation. One of the most promising development was the railroad which helped trains move goods from the West to the East. An American author by the name, Mark Twain, was the first who to call the late 19th century the ‘Gilded Age.’
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s obsessive pursuit of goals suggest that Fitzgerald believe that obsessiveness and constant desires often lead to a wrong psychological impact, destructive of one’s traditions, morals, and would have an unplanned end of the lesson or life.
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts two characters, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, who are both fabulously wealthy but have contrasting personalities. The novel takes place during the 1920’s, a time of opulence and excess. However, within this group comprised of people of wealth, there are several different echelons. On Long Island there is a vast body of water that acts as a separation between the different levels of the rich, West Egg which is steeped in old money and extreme wealth and East Egg which is home to those with newly acquired wealth. Tom and Gatsby possess both wealth and privilege. However, they have gained their wealth through different means, present their wealth to the world differently and use their wealth for different purposes. In the novel The Great Gatsby, we are presented with two very wealthy characters, Tom Buchanan and Gatsby, who have different incentives for accumulating their wealth.
In the beginning in the late 1700 and early 1800 hundreds when the Industrial Revolution when many families had to find someone to work or they wouldn 't survive in this decade this started child labor you might be asking yourself what is child labor, child labor is work that harms children or keep them from attending school or trying to get an education to better themselves. industrial labor organization made 215 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 had to work under the condition that are considered legal hazards or extremely exploitative in the environment that they worked in. underage children had to work also because usually their families were extremely poor and didn 't have enough money to support their selves for their children by them doing this there are many things that involved child labor when it came to the mistreating them. Such as them getting
The Mistreatment of Women During the Victorian Era “The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.” (Susan B. Anthony) The Victorian era was an extremely difficult time for women in Great Britain. They were subject to gross inequalities such as not being able to control their own earnings, education, and marriage. As well as having a lack of equality within marriage, women had poor working conditions, and an immense unemployment rate as well.
Children were born into slavery at a young age and started to experience the hard labor. When babies were first born they were considered a slave. For instance, children were put to work at the age of 3 to 4, and from then, they could not go back to playing and having fun. The children were slowly starting to do a little work, like carrying drinking water, weeding fields, picking up trash, and helping in the kitchen. By the time they reached the ages of seven to 12, they started to work intensively. Handicapped children went to work in spinning cotton, weaving cloth, or making clothes (Digital History, 2016). White children and black children played together, not knowing what role they were born into. The white children liked the
As the middle class began to further divide, those who grew in wealth became known as a banking/industrial class. Along with their sudden economic prosperity there came a desire for social transformation- an aspiration for new aristocracy. They carried their traditional middle class values into prominence with their accumulation of wealth. They sought to achieve a merit oriented Society rather than social climbing, for their children's sake, into the existing one based solely on birth. This hindered the new class from ever attaining Aristocratic Social acceptance for their new wealth and deemed them the nouveaux riche. Despite obvious disapproval from the Aristocracy the nouveaux riche continued their economic ascent through "personal contact [which] was a crucial element in filling posts" (Loftus 5). This dependence upon others for mounting economic standing was contrary to the middle class value of independence. This industrial class was forced to rely upon the connections, potentially aristocratic, in order to succeed. Loftus explains that middle-class values were carved out in these attempts to define a society based on merit rather than aristocratic privilege. However, the importance of cultural capital and social networks to success in the period implies that the rise of the middle-classes in the Victorian period saw the replacement of one set of privileges with another (Loftus 4). However the Nouveaux Riche failed to fully assimilate into aristocratic society due to lack of pedigree.
In Jane Eyre, money tempts, infects, and eventually takes control of the ideas and moral decisions of most characters. There are innumerable examples of the effect of money in Jane Eyre. However, since Jane obtained many positive qualities such as humbleness in arduous ordeals, she retains her discipline and morals when introduced to money. While it takes a long time for almost all people to attain this skill of self-discipline, Jane gains this skill earlier than most people would due to all her past tests.
We are well aware that there are wealthy people, and poorer people in today’s world. People strive to be wealthy, but what separates the wealthy from the poor? There are two mindsets between the two groups that holds the key to their failure or success. If notice closely, you will see exactly why the wealthy, and successful people are capable of living up to their full potential, and why the poverty are living in a poorer environment. In order to be wealthy and succeed in life, you don’t need a miracle, nor do you need a lot of money to get there. What Is essential, is having a positive attitude, and the right mindset. As a result, the right positive mind set will bring in exactly what you’re thinking and wanting. Wheatear that be good or bad thoughts. Here are 3 main differences in the mindsets between the wealthier groups, and the poverty groups.
To begin with, the highlighted topic of almost all historic accounts of the Elizabethan Age was the lives of nobles, “painting the pretty picture”, but most people fail to realize that there is always another side to every story. Nobles and peasants lived very different lives, as one might expect. Historic records show that “The Elizabethan Period in England had a daily life based on social order: the monarch as the highest, the nobility as the second rank, the gentry as third, merchants as fourth, yeomanry as fifth, and laborers as sixth” (Elizabethan Era). Many aspects of daily life between the nobles and the lower classes varied. One such aspect was education. The children of nobility received high quality education from renowned scholars, while most other lower class children did not even know how to write their own name. The type of education differed among boys and girls of the nobility too. Boys generally learned Latin, English, sometimes Greek, arithmetic, and religious education. Girls were taught by their mother or another female figure on housekeeping matters, tending to children, how to be a good...
Children were viewed as non-persons until the 1700's. They did not receive special treatment or recognition. Discipline then is what we now call abuse. There were some major assumptions about life before the 1700's.