Great Expectation Background Topics

Question 1

Victorian Crime and Punishment
(Common Crimes/ what class Commited them)

Answer 1

Crimes: Pickpocketing, fraud, and corpse trade
Punishments: Death, drafting, prison
Upper class: fraud, embezzlement
Working class: petty theft

Question 2

Victorian Crime and Punishment
How do Victorian Prisons compare to modern day prisons

Answer 2

Victorian: Forced labor, overcrowded, unhealthy
Modern-day: Secure, better conditions, focus on rehabilitation
Both: separate genders

Question 3

Victorian Crime and Punishment
What is a local prison?

Answer 3

Not comfortable, no gov control, harsh punishment

Question 4

Victorian Crime and Punishment
Convict prison

Answer 4

damp, unsanitary, overcrowded

Question 5

Victorian Crime and Punishment
How were convicts treated upon release?

Answer 5

Didn’t have anything, treated poorly

Question 6

Victorian Crime and Punishment
What was 19th century economy based on why did this cause so much debut?

Answer 6

Economy based on credit people couldn’t pay off debut bc shortage of coins

Question 7

Victorian Gender roles
Responsibilities for Victorian women

Answer 7

Women of all social classes worked
lots of labor jobs, factory workers, servants, washerwomen
servant less popular bc isolating job, hard to find husband

Question 8

Victorian Gender roles
What was ideal woman?

Answer 8

-moral guide for husband
-put husband and children first
-firmily in the home

Question 9

Victorian Gender roles
How were boys and girls raised differently in terms of education?

Answer 9

boys:
-greek and latin
-went to university
Girls;
-haphazahrd
-taught at home
-dance, drawing piano
Both:
-ABC’s and Arthimtic
-went to Sunday school

Question 10

Victorian Gender roles
Expectations and characteristics for men

Answer 10

leader of family, in charge of legal matters command wife
moral uprightness and honor, loyalty, politeness

Question 11

Victorian Gender roles
Charles Dickens take on gender roles

Answer 11

reinforces stereotypical gender roles
female character in homes
men have constant social presenes
times of disorder gender confusion

Question 12

Victorian Gender roles
Family structure in Victorian household

Answer 12

Female is submissive
wife is childlike compared to husband
husband should scold wife

Question 13

Victorian Family Life and Education
Family Structure for upper and middle class and working class

Answer 13

Father: control econ and legal
wife: didn’t’t work, didn’t get money, children
son: school, quality ed, follow dad
Daugther: stay home until married

working class:
everyone works

Question 14

Victorian Family Life and Education
Living Conditions

Answer 14

Upper class:
homes set apart from lower class
villas, 3-4 people
servants

Lower class:
-8 people per home
-small houses
large families
unsanitary
limited nessecties

Question 15

Victorian Family Life and Education
Problems Youth faced

Answer 15

illness, effected everyone
poverty, affected Ed and health
girls exploted for prositution and labor
child labor, many families have children work to produce money, dangerous jobs

Question 16

Victorian Family Life and Education
Social class effect on destiny

Answer 16

Upper class:
-raised by servants
-good ed
-inherit wealth and land

Lower class:
-work at young age
-few attended school
-dangerous labor
-abused

Overall: class determines op in life but could switch class by marrying up or down

Question 17

Victorian Family Life and Education
Role of social class in ed

Answer 17

Upper class:
-school improvements
-pay for nicer schools
-more formal ed

Lower class:
-ragged schools
-less improvments
-understaffed
-less access to ed

Question 18

Victorian Family Life and Education
Average school experience

Answer 18

-9 years in school
-compulsory up to age 10 in 1880
-school from 9-4:30
-upper class had personal tutors
-multiple students per classroom
-1 teacher, 1 assistant

Question 19

Charles Dickens
Early Life

Answer 19

-finanical issues
-12 dad gets arrested
-mother wants him to work in warehouse but father wants him to go to school

Question 20

Charles Dickens
Where did he start as a journalist and what did he end up normally writing for?

Answer 20

1.Mirror of Parliment
2. Morning Chronicle

Question 21

Charles Dickens
What are some of Dicken’s most famous works?

Answer 21

A Christmas carol
a tale of 2 cities
bleak house
hard times
a personal history of David copperfield

Question 22

Charles Dickens
What did Dickens do to raise awareness about problems?

Answer 22

Draw sketches for morning chronlice
traveled to America to speak out against slavery
extreme detail and imagery in his works

Question 23

Charles Dickens
What were some of Dicken’s accomplishemtns

Answer 23

huge list of novels
administering charitable organizations
theater entuthisast
-worte and preformed plays for queen victoria
-lectured agonist slaver

Question 24

Charles Dickens
Common themes in his work

Answer 24

Crime and punishment
selfishness
loss

Question 25

Social class Etiquite and the Victorian Gentleman How were social classes defined?

Answer 25

Income source ancestry family

Question 26

Social class Etiquite and the Victorian Gentleman Difference between social classes

Answer 26

different standards diff living areas relgion courtship

Question 27

Social class Etiquite and the Victorian Gentleman What were expected Etiquite of working, middle and upper class?

Answer 27

Working no complaint, accept work, human existence is struggle Middle no signs of pleasure, uninteresting food Upper wear gloves, considered naked without them

Question 28

Social class Etiquite and the Victorian Gentleman What were professions and characteristics of gentleman?

Answer 28

army officers, aristocrats, morals gentleness and sympathy

Question 29

Social class Etiquite and the Victorian Gentleman Why did society value gentleman?

Answer 29

men wanted to be recognized that way embodied Victorian Etiquite

Question 30

Social class Etiquite and the Victorian Gentleman 3 defined social classes

Answer 30

Aristocracy, middle class, working class