https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r Made with wonder en-us 2021-04-13 13:04:17 UTC 2026-01-13 21:37:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222941800 Those with old money for example Jack and Algernon were much more highly regarded than those who had made their money through hard work. However, in Victorian england this was beginning to change as there was much more people engaging in business because of the industrial revolution ]]> 2022-06-16 10:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222941800 020862 https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222941820 The behaviour in Victorian England was mostly centred around upholding decorum and manners. This is the reason why The importance of being earnest is a comedy of manners

]]> 2022-06-16 10:25:34 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222941820 https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222941863 Morality was incredibly strict in Victorian England, with the common belief that people who suffered misfortune, or were poor, or injured, deserved it as a result of something in their character. People who did well were often associated with strong morals, even if they showed nothing of the sort ]]> 2022-06-16 10:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222941863 https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942073 Rigid social structure-
Extreme poverty, workhouses, society critics such as Charles Dickens attempted to make a change]]> 2022-06-16 10:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942073 https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942151 the lower class usually did not have access to clean water, and a lot of women at the time had to give their children and themselves gin to drink as they had no clean water. this gin was known as mothers ruin]]> 2022-06-16 10:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942151 https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942348 Melodramas and realist novels were becoming popular ]]> 2022-06-16 10:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942348 https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942526 Victorian society was organised hierarchally. While race, religion, region, and occupation were all meaningful aspects of identity and status, the main organizing principles of Victorian society were gender and class.]]> 2022-06-16 10:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942526 https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942601 Women were typically expected to look after the domestic sphere. However, there was proto-feminist movements gaining attraction.

Men were judged on their ability to provide for their family economically and status wise. Men part of the bourgeoisie had a stereotype for being lazy and trivial.]]> 2022-06-16 10:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942601 https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942843 Earnest uses satire to comment on the extreme society imbalance, ridiculing the upper classes.]]> 2022-06-16 10:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942843 https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942955 Class would define your whole life, from the people you associated with, to the jobs that you pursued, to the way that you were generally viewed by society ]]> 2022-06-16 10:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222942955 https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222943049 There where three classes in Victorian England, the upper class, middle class, and the lower/working class. 
Your class depended on how wealthy you were, if you were extremely rich, you would be in the upper class, and this gave you a high status, however if you were poor and struggling, you were in the lower class, and tended to be looked down on by the upper classes.]]> 2022-06-16 10:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/juliesiddons/7ftabxqshc94kp4r/wish/2222943049