victorian era

In the Victorian Age, which encompassed the last quarter of the nineteenth century, England was at its highest point. The British Empire extended all over the world, prompting the phrase, "The sun never sets in the British Empire."

The era saw the flourishing of the English aristocracy, but much like the contemporaneous Gilded Age in America, the rise of the elite created a huge wealth disparity between the very rich and the very poor. This gap became fertile ground for many artists, particularly Charles Dickens, who made a career of examining the social conditions on the lower rungs of English society. The period also played host to a rise of new ideas, most importantly the revolutionary ideas of Darwin, whose work on evolution became extremely influential in the last part of the nineteenth century. The Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy adopted a fatalist philosophy along Darwinian lines, in which now removed from his privileged place at the centre of the world, man was viewed as moving within forces beyond his control.

Oscar Wilde, rather than focusing on the lower classes or social conditions, chose to satirize th

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