The Victorian Compromise
by Francesca Maci
1. Middle class ideals in family life
1.1. patriarchal families
1.1.1. Husband=authority
1.1.2. Wife= education of children and mangement of the house
2. Inappropriate things
2.1. unmarried women with children
2.1.1. **"fallen women"**
2.2. sexuality was repressed
2.2.1. **"prudery"**
2.3. **nudity in art**
2.4. rejection of words with a sexual connotation
3. Full of **contradictions**
3.1. Two faces of the society:
3.1.1. **Industrial Revolution**
3.1.1.1. Growing wealth
3.1.2. Poverty, injustice and social unrest
4. Main topic
4.1. **MORALITY**
4.1.1. How the world should be
4.1.2. characteristics
4.1.2.1. **hard work**
4.1.2.1.1. was the most important
4.1.2.2. **duty**
4.1.2.3. **respectability**
4.1.2.3.1. distinguished the middle class from the lower one
4.1.2.3.2. was characterized
4.1.2.4. **charity**
4.1.3. was applied to all the classes of the society