Matthew Arnold's critical essay Culture and Anarchy.

1. Anarchy in Today’s Society
•Name: Rohit Vyas
•Course: M.A. English, Semester 2, at S. B. Gardi
Dept. of English MK Bhavnagar University
•PG Year: 2019-2021
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•Paper: 06 Victorian Literature (Unit 3)
•Submitted to : Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of
English, M.K. Bhavnagar University

2. Matthew Arnold’s Essay
• ‘Culture and Anarchy”
– Published in 1869.
• The most
controversial critical
essay in Victorian
Age.
• Marks its impact even
today.

3. According to Arnold
• Study of perfection
• Culture is the best which is thought and said.
• Arnold took England’s society for study and
divided people into three classes.

4. Society in General
• Aristocrats, rich class, at leisure
• They lack inner virtues
Barbarians
• Middle class and uncultured
• Busy in making money
Philistines
• Working class,
• Rawness and half developed
Populace

5. Dangers of doing as one likes
• It may lead the entire society towards
anarchy.
• Working and middle class people may take
some action with insufficient light or less
perfection.
• In today’s society also, masses are quite
uncontrolled and raw. Far from the idea of
public duty and discipline.

6. Anarchy…
•Unemployment
•Anti-social activities and
malpractices

7. Our Best Self
• When anarchy prevails,
authority is required to
control it.
• One needs to study
perfection and find the
best self to put control.
• Harmony and balance
in society

8. Works Cited
 Alfred J. Drake, “Chapter 2 Doing as One
Likes.” Chapter 2. Doing as One Likes.
www.victorianweb.org/authors/arnold/writings/
2.html.
 Arnold, Matthew. Culture And Anarchy. 1st ed.,
1869, Accessed 25 Feb 2020.
 Barad, Dilip. “Culture and Anarchy.” Culture and
Anarchy. 25, January, 2020.
https://dilipbarad.blogspot.com/2020/01/cultur
e-and-anarchy.html.