LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Chemistry, electricity, engineering, and architecture
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Empiricism, enlightenment, and romanticism
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Alcoholics Anonymous, the World Health Organization, and NATO
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Democracy, feminism, unionization of workers, socialism, and Marxism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Famine, financial depression, pollution, and stark social inequality characterised the period, and many people began to wonder how a prosperous nation could have allowed life to become so grim for so many of its citizens. In response to these desperate circumstances, social movements formed to call for change.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Victorian Era was a time of vast political reform and social change, the Industrial Revolution, authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, a railway and shipping boom, profound scientific discovery and the first telephone and telegraph.
Detailed explanation-3: -The four social classes in the Victorian Era were defined as the upper class, the middle class, the working class, and the underclass. The upper class held most of the country’s political and economic control, which marginalized the working class and underclass.
Detailed explanation-4: -One of the aims of sensation fiction was to surprise and trouble readers by challenging social conventions, but another Victorian genre, melodrama, achieved popularity by upholding popular values.