children, women and classes in Victorian Times

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Victorian Times 

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Make a drawing of the differences between Thruscross Grange + Wuthering Heights

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Victorian Era

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Position of women in Victorian Times
*Poor women had to work

*Bad living conditions

* no rights to vote, husband was the boss
Difference between the classes:
*Rich women were supposed to be "the Angel of the House"
*Well-furnished houses & enough food, servants
* no rights to vote, husband decided on everything

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What about children?
What was the position of children during the Victorian Era?
In the different classes?
Girls/boys
Health-wise?

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rich children
raised by a nanny & spoiled 
hardly any contact with their parents
not allowed to eat at the same table
educated
needed to marry a person from the same class

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In your reader on Victorian Times p.44
19th century society
Optimism, for the middle & upper classes
Pessimism for the lower classes & poor people
Industrial + economic growth Economic recession: surplus of labour
- Bad living conditions lower classes/poor
- Reform bills to improve situation labourers (child labour)
Max. 48 hours if 9 years old
Chimney sweepers
 Emancipation: women's rights
Sufragettes: women's & votes
1918 :allowed to vote if 30 years old
1928: 21 years old
Right to vote for women & lower classes
World Power: the British Empire
Queen of Britain
Empress of India
Imperialism: GB doubled its size
The Sun never sets on the British Empire!
Anglican Church, very religious + high morals Religious doubts, Darwin "Origin of Species", no longer only Adam and Eve story, but evolutionary ideas

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Lower classes 
- Bad living conditions lower classes/poor 
- Reform bills to improve situation labourers (child labour)
Max. 48 hours if 9 years old
Bit of education...
Bad health circumstances

Sufragettes: women's & votes
1918 :allowed to vote if 30 years old
1928: 21 years old
Right to vote for women & lower classes

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Women's rights
Emancipation: women's rights
in GB called Sufragettes: rights & votes for women 
1918 :allowed to vote if 30 years old
1928: vote at 21 years old
Rights to vote for women & lower classes

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Types of jobs for poor women
servants
nanny's
governesses
prostitutes

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What was Great Britain named in the 19th century
A
The Empire where the sun never sets
B
Old America
C
The Indian Empire
D
The Commonwealth Empire

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What do you know about Darwin?
A
He has invented a new type of religion
B
His has written the evolutionary theory
C
He was the Prime Minister from 1850-1854
D
He was Queen Victoria's brother-in-law

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Who is this person?

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Female writers in the 19th century 
The Brontë sisters:
Charlotte, Emily and Anne

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A quick guide to the Brontë sisters 
What type of girls were these Brontë sisters:
little contact/shy
Emily & sisters had sharp characters
Did not opt for marriage, governesses

wrote under a pseudonym
s

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Mr Lockwood: new tenant, curious and uninvited, but visits WH twice
- Mr Heathcliff : landlord of WH and TG, bit harsh + unfriendly + no manners
- Difference between these two houses: 
Wuthering Heights & Thruscross Grange
wild + sheltered
up hill + in valley 
passionate + quiet
dark + light
heavy furniture + elegant furniture

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Wuthering Height exerpt
* p. 48- 55/56 reader
* do 1-13 questions in your reader 

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Charles Dickens' ideas
criminals are made not born
he was closely concerned with every day life (poverty etc.)
his father had debts, was send to debters prison
the rest of the family to the workhouse
Charles had to work in a shoeblackening factory as a 12 -year-old

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The Workhouse
Orphans, the elderly, sick, disabled or unemployed in Victorian London, then you may have found yourself in the workhouse. Until the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, the treatment of the poor had not changed since the 1601 Poor Law.

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Special for Dickens' novels (I)
serialised stories in journals (= installments)
cliffhangers
literature available for a wider audience 
(cheap + information for people from middle/higher classes )
ironical/satirical (subtle irony)
absurd characters and absurd names

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Special for Dickens's novels (II)
flat and vivid characters
most of the novels took place in the busy city
workhouse, childlabour
mostly male characters


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Oliver Twist
* Poor boy born in the Workhouse
* Sold for 5 pounds to a coffin maker
* Runs away to London
* Where he is "found" by an older boy
*  Brought to Mr Fagin, the leader of a boys' pickpocketing gang
* Lots of (sometimes criminal) activities happen
* Finally there is a happy end...

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Charles Dickens 
* Read exerpt of Oliver Twist in your reader
* Find a summary on "Oliver Twist" and read it
* Read the PP about Dickens in your reader
* Finish the questions on Charles Dickens in your reader

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subtle irony
Subtle irony: not immediately obvious irony. Use of words to convey a meaning that is
      the opposite of the real meaning.

example:
...where on a rough, hard bed, he sobbed himself to sleep. Novel illustration of the tender laws of England. They let the paupers go to sleep.

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Check answers questions 14-20
Question 15. Is Dickens representative of the period ( Victorian era) he lived in?

    He is a clear representative of the Victorian period. His father spent too much money
    had large debts and was sent to prison for that. The rest of the family was sent to
    The WORKHOUSE. BAD LIVING CIRCUMSTANCES. Charles(12) had to work in a shoe
    blackening factory for three years CHILD LABOUR
. DICKENS EXPERIENCED THESE TERRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES HIMSELF 
    He wrote for his own class (identification) and to make sure richer people
    also learned about bad circumstances of the poor classes.

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ENKELE GOUDEN TIPS:
*  Alles wat in de reader staat, ook uitleg en achtergrond info over b.v. schrijver of tijdperk

* Lees en onthoudt alle verhalen in de reader (extra begrip: samenvatting OT  & WH goed lezen)
* Belangrijk tekstdelen te  herkennen, bv. Canterbury Tales
* Vetgedrukte delen in de reader extra belangrijk!
*Alle vragen + antwoorden en PowerPoints uit de reader uit je hoofd leren
* Ken soorten sonnetten: Italian/Petrarchan, Spenserian, English/ Shakespearean & uitleg 
*assonance, alliteration, run-on-lines, caesura or full stop, subjectmatter etc.
*Shakespearean plays, b.v. Tragedies, comedies, history plays with themes en een voorbeeld
*Pay attention to comic relief, flaw in character, blank verse, soliloquys, type of theatres and stage in those days etc.


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