The Victorian Age which was started in 1837 with the succession of the crown of queen Victoria, was the age of dualities and contradictions. Duailty in literature, science, religion, society and life surrounded the period. In one hand, there were a strict perception of religion and moral on the other hand there were prostitutes and child laborers. The economical contradiction was also at the top of its age. While the industrial revolution was actualizing, the class structure of England capsized. The Industrial Revolution resulted in rising of the middle class and working class whereas aristocracy was falling over. In this age;
The middle class was getting richer mostly through manufacturing enterprises and, although it can be talked about …show more content…
The novel was published in 1847 with the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. This is the only novel of Brontë which narrates a passionate love story between Catherine and Heathcliff and it is also beyond this theme, there are revenge, dreams, nightmares, ghosts and violence. The criticisms were made negatively in this age since the readers thought that the novel was “revolting,” “iredeemably montuous,” “too odiously and abominably pagan to be palatable to the most vitiated class of English readers” (qtd. in Urgan 1138) however, this novel was one of the victorious narrations of the age. Emily Brontë portrays Victorian era effectively in terms of society, suppressed emotions and alienation of the inferior in her book Wuthering …show more content…
With Industrial Revolution, the manufacturing of England was developled. This development brought a need for workers in big cities thus an immigration flow started from rural areas to the cities which was resulted in rural depopulation and social class mobility. The proceedings in industry and the immigration caused overcrowd and pollution in England as Šalinović depicted in the previous paragraphs. While England was getting more wealthy, the folk was hungry and works for minor prices. The exigence of hard labor led Victorian society to the birth of working class. This class issue became substantial at this age and “Victorian literature was central to the struggle for culture authority between different class-based value systems” (Moran 4). In his book Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold depicts these values of the three different class like
The middle class was getting richer mostly through manufacturing enterprises and, although it can be talked about …show more content…
The novel was published in 1847 with the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. This is the only novel of Brontë which narrates a passionate love story between Catherine and Heathcliff and it is also beyond this theme, there are revenge, dreams, nightmares, ghosts and violence. The criticisms were made negatively in this age since the readers thought that the novel was “revolting,” “iredeemably montuous,” “too odiously and abominably pagan to be palatable to the most vitiated class of English readers” (qtd. in Urgan 1138) however, this novel was one of the victorious narrations of the age. Emily Brontë portrays Victorian era effectively in terms of society, suppressed emotions and alienation of the inferior in her book Wuthering …show more content…
With Industrial Revolution, the manufacturing of England was developled. This development brought a need for workers in big cities thus an immigration flow started from rural areas to the cities which was resulted in rural depopulation and social class mobility. The proceedings in industry and the immigration caused overcrowd and pollution in England as Šalinović depicted in the previous paragraphs. While England was getting more wealthy, the folk was hungry and works for minor prices. The exigence of hard labor led Victorian society to the birth of working class. This class issue became substantial at this age and “Victorian literature was central to the struggle for culture authority between different class-based value systems” (Moran 4). In his book Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold depicts these values of the three different class like