Victorian Era Flashcards
(22 cards)
The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)
Friedrich Engels
Discuss capital
- money
- what you can exchange for good.
Captains of Inductry (1843)
Thomas Carlyle
Man is working = man needs to work
Asks those to share money with the people below them.
The Christmas Carol (1843)
Charles Dickens
About: redemption of the rich and giving to the poor.
Scrooge: the change people needed to make and many business owners at that time.
- giving to the poor and how Scrooge changes in the end is how Carlyle wants the Captains of Industry to act.
The charge of the light brigade (1850)
Alfred Tennyson
Sounds like horses galloping
The lady of Shalott (1830)
Alfred Tennyson
Lancelot, Camelot, Shalott
Ending sounds are the same
Porphyria’s Lover (1834)
Robert Browning
Before death= about him
After death= about her
My last Duchess (1842)
Robert Browning
In death, the duke is possessive duchess.
Sonnets from the Portuguese #22 & #43 (1843)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#43- soul loves even after death.
#22- what she loves about him
From Aurora Leigh (1846)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“English women were models of the universe.”
God’s Grandeur (1877)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nature and God
Pied Beauty (1877)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
God is the reason for all these beautiful things in nature.
Spring and Fall (1877)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Leaves.
Innocence
Spring and fall mean something from the earth
Thou art indeed just, Lord (1889)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Questioning God
Dover beach (1853)
Matthew Arnold
Talking to a lover
Solution= be true to one another
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1885)
Robert Stevenson
About: divide of self
Lesson: you should not run with with science
The white man’s burden (1888)
Rudyard Kipling
Every stanza begins with the same line
Colonizing is not worth it.
Gunga Din (1890)
Rudyard Kipling
Bullys the slave.
Gunga Din= better man than the narrator.
When was queen victoria queen?
1837-1901
Extreme population growth =
Extreme poverty
2 periods
Hope and Disillusion
Hope
Carlyle
Dickens
Tennyson
R. Browning
E. Browning
Arnold
Disillusion
Hopkins
Stevenson
Kipling