HERE IS THE PRESENTATION

1. Documentary Q`S & A`S
María Antonia Camperos
Julieta Olarte
Laura Avella

2. Questions

3. Question #1
• How did the moral perspective of art changed
towards the new paintings of nudes?

4. Question #2
• Why was the Christian theory about God’s
creation proven false?

5. Question #3
• What changed people’s beliefs towards the
old morality during the Victorians age?

6. Question #4
• How industrial development influenced
Victorians behaved towards death?

7. Question #5
• Do you think all these exotic beliefs about
death and the supernatural life were a
rebellion towards Christianity?

8. Answers

9. Answer #1
• At the beginning of the Victorian period,
culture was characterized by its morals and its
values. Victorians beliefs disapproved the new
way of painting because they considered it
grotesque and burglar. Nevertheless, at the
end of the period the traditional morals
started to lose importance and relevance in
society, the nudes were accepted and seen as
a symbol of women’s beauty and passion.

10. Answer #2
• While the process of industrialization new
discoveries about science and evolution were
obtain, Victorians found fossil that proved
them that the earth was older than what the
Christian theory said it was. The Bible’s theory
said Earth was created on Sunday, October 23,
4004 B.C., but the fossil Victorians found was
much older than that.

11. Answer #3
• As Victorians loosed interest for Christians
beliefs, due to the doubts about their veracity,
and morality was so attached to religion,
people started to change their thoughts
towards morality, what was correct and what
really a sin. Besides, as Victorians were so
oppressed by many rules they reach a point in
which they couldn’t resist any more and they
reveled against traditions.

12. Answer #4
• New discoveries, gained with the new
industrialized methods, influenced Victorians
perspective towards death because they
putted in doubt the veracity Christian beliefs
about afterlife and heaven. Besides, the
industrial development brought with it a life
apart of nature and spiritual sense, changing
their old beliefs about death.

13. Answer #5
• Yes, because Christian thoughts were against
unusual conceptions about death and
afterlife, they were against people’s beliefs
about ghosts, the other life and the desire of
communicating with spirits. As Victorians
realized Christian beliefs towards death might
not to be true, they started to believe in other
things contrary as the ones they used to.