In the presentation you can't find the whole information,you need to read my report also. Hello everyone, This presentation is about Victorian Morality.In this presentation you can find information about how people lived in Victorian Period.Also,you can understand the morality of the people.

1. Remzi Başkent
Anadolu University

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 Using words like “white or dark meat”.
 The language of flowers.
 Mimosa = Chastity
 Red rose = Blood of the Christ and intensity of the
romantic love
 Pink rose = lesser affection
 White roses = virtue and chastity
 Black rose = death and dark magic
Social and Sexual
Restraints

3.  Covering furniture’s legs with cloth
 Modesty and reputation was important.
 Homosexuality was illegal
 My secret life (Frank Harris) and The pearl(1880 then
they were forced to shutdown)

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 Avoiding sexual relations until
marriage.
 A person=chaste=faithful
partner
 Church preached for abstinence.
 It was considered important for
person’s health
Chastity(Abstinence)

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 Couldn’t speak in a impure way in front of a single
woman
 Single woman can’t spend time alone with a man at
home.
 No physical contact until marriage
 Can’t date in the middle of the night
 Adultery was acceptable for men not women.
Courtship rules

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 Street Etiquette:
 Can’t stop to chat in a
crowded street.
 You should avoid
animated speech and
loud talking.
Victorian Etiquette
Rules

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 Come to the party before
15 minutes.
 Gathering in drawing
room
 Servants announce the
dinner and entering
process begin.
Dinner Party Etiquette

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 Started to question the religion but it was still
dominant.
 Bible was seen as the foundation of the moral
behaviours.Only guide to the moral life.
 Effects of puritanism were seen.
Religious Morality

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 1-Duty 4-No hypocrisy
 2-Hard work 5-Charity
 3-Giving respect to people 6-Philanthrophy
 Progress,reforms,stability
Code of Conduct

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 Bread winners
 Family protectors
 They were superior in
body and mind
 Better educated and
head of the family.
Restrictive Gender Roles
 Inferior to men and
weaker innocent.
 Main role was to marry a
man and take part in his
life.
 Learn homely skills
 Look after the house and
children

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 Alcholism:
 Awful working and living conditions of the working
class
 Wrayburn: “It will be necessary, I think, to wind up
Mr. Dolls, before anything to any mortal purpose can
be got out of him. Brandy, Mr. Dolls, or - ?”
Mr. Dolls: “Threepenn’orth Rum.”
---Our mutual friend-Charles Dickens---
Contradictions in
Victorian Period

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 Charles Dickens described ginshops in Sketches by Boz
 Also,in his writings we can see the alcholism in Victorian
England.

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 Prostitution
 It was legal.
 1/3 women was prostitute.
 Nancy in Oliver Twist//Martha Endell in David
Copperfield
"A couple of young ladies called to see the young
gentlemen; one of whom was named Bet, and the other
Nancy. They wore a good deal of hair, not very neatly
turned up behind, and were rather untidy about the
shoes and stockings. They were not exactly pretty,
perhaps; but they had a great deal of colour in their
faces, and looked quite stout and hearty.“
Oliver Twist-Charles Dickens

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 Child Labour
 Abolishing slavery created child labouring.
 Children were forced to work in
factories,workhouses.
 They worked 16 hours in a day like elders did.
 Pip(Great Expectation) David(David Copperfield)
 Esther(Bleak House) Estella(Great Expectation)
 Oliver(Oliver Twist) Sissy Jup(Hard Times)
(Charles Dicken’s child characters)

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 There were strict restrictions.They tried to create a
moral society.However restriction in human nature
didn’t give them what they wanted.Moreover,it
created corruption like prostitution,alcoholism,child
labouring in those times.
Conclusion

17. 
 Dutta Anindita (2018,March 29). Children in Dickens’s Novels. Retrieved from:
https://www.arcjournals.org/pdfs/ijsell/v2-i2/1.pdf
 Victorian Morality (2018,March 29).Retrieved from: http://www.wiki-
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 Victorian era courtship rules and marriage facts (2018,March 29).Retrieved from:
http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-era-courtship-rules-and-marriage.html
 Victorian Era Morality Facts: Moral Behavior, Values, Ideals, Ethics(2018,March
28).Retrived from: http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-era-morality.html
 Victorian Era Code of Conduct (2018,March 28). Retrieved from:
http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-era-code-of-conduct.html
 Victorian morality Facts: Moral views on chastity, crimes, code of conduct, church influence
(2018,March 27). Retrieved from: http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-
morality.html
 Victorian Era Abstinence: How related to ethics and morality (2018,March 29). Retrieved
from: http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-era-abstinence.html
 Mcgrath Jane (2018,March 29). 10 Ridiculous Victorian Etiquette Rules.Retrieved from:
https://people.howstuffworks.com/10-ridiculous-victorian-etiquette-rules.htm
Mckellen Sabine (2018,March 29). Social Restrictions in the Victorian Era. Retrieved from:
https://classroom.synonym.com/social-restrictions-victorian-era-17695.html
References

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 Victorian Era (2018,March 29) Retrieved from:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Victorian_era
 Victorian Religion of Christianity (2018,March 29) Retrieved from:
http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-religion-of-christianity.html
 Alcohol and Alcoholism in Victorian England (2018,March 29)Retrieved
from:
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/alcoholism.html
 London Gin Shops (2018,March 29)Retrieved from:
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/london/gin.html
 Prostitution in Victorian England (2018,March 29)Retrieved from:
https://revisitingdickens.wordpress.com/prostitution-victorian/