Key Ideas

Question 1

Reform, not revolution.

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

Uneducated, not well travelled

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

Spirit of the Age: Feels like they are in a revolutionary time. Old don’t want it (fear it) while young love it. Moving onward in the world.

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

The effects of industrialization: QV’s shock at the soot and damage caused by it.

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

Social Darwinism, women reforms, rise of the middle class.

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

Pious religious devotion and skepticism.

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Becoming like machines, the middle-class, social unrest stemming from the mechanization of the world.

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

Intrinsic “lowliness” of some classes (think v fair and Jane eyre).

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

Bildungsroman

Answer 9

Coming of age, follows a life from the beginning, usually followed male chars.

Question 10

Byronic Hero

Answer 10

Dark,, mysterious character, not innocent (Rochester).

Question 11

Gothic

Answer 11

Fairies, dark mysterious men, big mansion (Jane Eyre!).