This PPt is made as a Part of Classroom Presentation of Semester-1 at Department of English, MKBU. This Presentation is based on the topic - 'Socio Political Conditions during the Victorian Age'. This Presentation was on 19th October, 2022 assigned by Dr.Dilip Barad sir.

1. Socio - Political
Conditions during the
victorian Age.
Prepared by :- Hetal Pathak

2. ❖ Personal Information :-
Presented by :- Hetal Pathak
Roll number :- 12 Semester :- 1
Paper no.- 105
Paper name :- History of English Literature - From
1350 to 1900
Paper Code :- 22396
Enrollment no.- 4069206420220022
E- mail :- hetalpathak28@gmail.Com
Submitted to :- Smt S.B. Gardi, Department Of English

3. ❖ Table of Contents:-
01 02
03
Social Conditions of
People during
Victorian era
04
A Brief Overview about
the Victorian age
Historical Summary of this
Age
Political Scenario
05
Conclusion

4. A Brief Overview about the Victorian Age:-
When Victoria became queen in the Year 1837,
English Literature seemed to have entered
upon a Period of Lean Years.
The Victorian Age Started in the Year 1850
and Stayed till 1900.
Victorian age Considered as One of the most
remarkable Period in the history of England.
The Victorian Age is also Known as;
“ The Modern Period Of Progress and Social
Unrest.”

5. “ If men Could learn from
history, What lessons it
might teach us! But
Passion and Party blind
our eyes, and the light
Which experience gives is
a lantern on the Stern,
Which shines only on the
Waves behind us.”
- Samuel Taylor
Coleridge

6. Historical Summary Of the Age :-
Amid the multitudes of Social and Political Forces of this great
age, Four things Stands Out Very Clearly…
After a Sketch of the state of literature at the Queen Victoria’s
accession,men already famous- the essayist ,the early
novelists,and the great Victorian Poets are considered.
The Literary Glory of a new age,Which now Seems to rank only
just below the Elizabethan age.

7. 1. Democracy 2. Social Unrest
4. Arts and Science
3. The ideal Of
Peace
❖ Important Points to be Understand :-

8. 1. Democracy :-
❏ The Victorian age was Considered as an age of Democracy.
❏ The long Struggle of the Anglo - Saxons for Personal liberty is
definitely settled .
❏ Earlier People were not feeling free to do such kinds of things.
❏ But, In this age the freedom was there and given to all.
❏ It is said that ;
“ The House of Commons becomes the ruling Power in
England.’’

9. Continue…
2. Social Unrest :- It is an age of Profound
Social unrest. Multitudes of Men, Women and
Little children in the Factories were victims of
a terrible Social Slavery.
3. The Ideal Of Peace :- Because it was an
age of Democracy and also education, that is
why it’s an age of Comparative Peace.
England begins to think less of the pomp and
false glitter of Fighting.

10. 4. Arts and Science :-
The Victorian age is Especially
remarkable because of its rapid Progress
in all the arts and Science and in
mechanical inventions also.We are too
much absorbed in our Sciences and
mechanics to determine accurately their
influence upon literature.

11. Social Conditions of People during this age :-
❏ There is nothing Particularly new about the
Observation that the Social Order in Britain was
subjected to immense by the Process of Urbanization
and Industrialization.
❏ Social Control are seen as Playing an important role
in this age.
❏ The Social Class of this era included the Upper,Middle
and lower class.
❏ This Situation Known as Victorian England Social
hierarchy.

12. Political Scenario of the age:-
❏ Political events happened during the
Victorian age.
❏ It included the abolition of slavery in the
British empire.
❏ Also, New governments are formed and
take over.
❏ Working class Political was activism.

13. ❖ Work Cited :-
Clive, John. The Use Of the Past in the Victorian England, 1986, p. 15, https://www.jstor.org/stable/40547821.
Accessed 19 October 2022.
Long, William J. English Literature. AITBS, 2017. Accessed 19 October 2022.
Milburn, J. B. The Victorian age of English literature, vol. 7, 1893, p. 3. Accessed 19 October 2022.
Tholfsen, Trygve R. The Transition to democracy in Victorian England, vol. 6, 1961, p. 23,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44581454. Accessed 19 October 2022.
Thompson, F.M. L. Social Control in Victorian Britain, vol. 34, 1981, p. 20, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2595241.
Accessed 19 October 2022.

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