Nothing mattered back in Victorian Britain, except money and wealth. No one mattered unless you had money and if you didn’t bless your hard working soul, because if you didn’t have enough money to support yourself or family you were already dead. Unfortunately kids worked far faster than adults and most parents didn’t make the kind of money to send their children off to school so the rich factory owners seized the opportunity and tricked many children into working for free and they kept doing it. Education was difficult for most children to get because of the fact that most families could not afford it. During this time if you could afford to go to school they still had lots of rules and high standards, and if they were not followed then …show more content…
you were severely punishments. Most children could not go to school during this time due to most families in poverty. Only rich boys got to go to school and there weren’t many of them. Not very many children got to go to school and if you did, you were lucky, it was a somewhat privilege, because if you couldn’t go to school, you were forced to work. If you were a rich girl you were taught at home by a governess. If you couldn’t go to school, you worked up to 10 hours a day with very little to no pay and then to top it all off you also had the same gross meal every day or you starved. Some of the jobs children did were cleaning/climbing chimneys, working on the farms, making bricks, opening and closing the door for a train in the mines, and most children worked in the factories, and their parents sold them at a young age because they couldn’t afford to take care of them. BBC Primary History writes, “Many children started work at the age of 5,” (Victorian Britain Children At Work) from this readers can infer that factory workers and other job owners wanted the smaller and younger workers because of the energy levels and less knowledge to know that they tricked them or were making them work for nothing. What subjects were taught? Boys and girls (if you were a rich girl) went to school together until secondary school, then they were separated and taught basic life needs for their genders. In Victorian Britain the people were segregated by how much money you had, so there was upper class, middle class, and the poor, but I feel like they were more segregated by their gender because men ran everything and in secondary school the boys learned how to run business and work factory machines while the girls learned sewing, cooking, cleaning, and how to be a mother. In primary schools, children were usually taught, math reading and writing. So they influenced today’s schools. Schools in Victorian Britain were much different than schools today. Instead of sending you to the safe seat or signing agendas they would hit you with a ruler or make you write hundreds of sentences about how you will not do whatever it is that you did again, and instead of going to the safe seat you went to the corner of shame. Not only punishments were drastically different, but the types of schools were also very diverse, there were public and private schools which only very rich families could afford and then there was dame schools, ragged and Sunday schools for the poor. BBC Primary History writes “From 1833 factory owners were supposed to provide at least 2 hours education every day for child-workers, but not many children actually got lessons.” from this we can infer that even though the poor children grew up working in the factories, that they really didn’t understand basic English, math and they probably didn’t understand the machines they operated. Education has always been a difficult thing for children anywhere, but in Victorian Britain you were a very privileged child if you got to go to school because it was very pricy to go, even if you got to go it wasn’t a jolly good old time because if you acted out the slightest bit then you were severely punished, but even that was better than working and that’s what you did if you couldn’t afford it.
Money was very tight in Victorian Britain, and it was hard to live if you didn’t have money, and most families did. So their children enslaved the day away working for the factories, or the farms for no pay. Families who couldn’t afford their child’s needs sold them for money to support themselves and watched their child work. If you got to go to school you learned the basic subjects similar to what is taught today, reading, writing, and math, but besides subjects they did punishments way different and it is what we would consider abuse, if children talked or did something wrong, there was no warnings it was a hit to the head and not with a hand, with a wooden ruler. Other punishments included writing sentences and the corner of shame. In 1870 child labor was somewhat banned, and every child 5 years of age and older was required to receive a basic education. Hopefully now you understand how easy our lives are today and how lucky we are to have a good opportunity to receive
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The kids under the age of fourteen were sent to go assist with the textile workers. They then would beat and verbally abuse the child. And if children would show up late, they would be weighted. Weighted means to put a very heavy weight on the child's back and have them walk up and down the factory aisles for hours, so other children can learn from it. This then resulted in back and neck injuries. (“Child Labor in Factories”) While this all seems really cruel, there were many positives that came out of child labor. Children were still able to contribute to their families. Money was a big struggle, and it had a major impact for poor families. Children were also getting a wide range of opportunities and work experiences for the future ahead. Although it might not be the best way to get experience, they were still helping out there families and showing respect towards them. This shows that during the Industrial Revolution, children were used harshly for labor, and the positives and negatives out of
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s obsessive pursuit of goals suggest that Fitzgerald believe that obsessiveness and constant desires often lead to a wrong psychological impact, destructive of one’s traditions, morals, and would have an unplanned end of the lesson or life.
With the gradual advancements of society in the 1800’s came new conflicts to face. England, the leading country of technology at the time, seemed to be in good economic standing as it profited from such products the industrial revolution brought. This meant the need for workers increased which produced jobs but often resulted in the mistreatment of its laborers. Unfortunately the victims targeted were kids that were deprived of a happy childhood. A testimony by a sub-commissioner of mines in 1842 titled Women Miners in the English Coal Pits and The Sadler Report (1832), an interview of various kids, shows the deplorable conditions these kids were forced to face.
In the beginning in the late 1700 and early 1800 hundreds when the Industrial Revolution when many families had to find someone to work or they wouldn 't survive in this decade this started child labor you might be asking yourself what is child labor, child labor is work that harms children or keep them from attending school or trying to get an education to better themselves. industrial labor organization made 215 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 had to work under the condition that are considered legal hazards or extremely exploitative in the environment that they worked in. underage children had to work also because usually their families were extremely poor and didn 't have enough money to support their selves for their children by them doing this there are many things that involved child labor when it came to the mistreating them. Such as them getting
In life women had only one main goal; to marry. Prior to a woman’s marriage, a woman would learn the basic necessities and qualities of a typical Victorian Woman. She would learn ideals such as cooking, cleaning, weaving, raising children and plenty more. If a woman was well of in the financial aspects, she likely did not have to learn much or work as hard other women due to having maids at hand. Women at the time were typically unable to better educate themselves beyond minimal knowledge of household duties because in essence men ruled society. “A woman was inferior to a mam in all ways except the unique one that counted most [to a man]: her femininity. Her place was in the home, on a veritable pedestal if one could be afforded, and emphatically not in the world of affairs” (Altick, 54).
In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts two characters, Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby, who are both fabulously wealthy but have contrasting personalities. The novel takes place during the 1920’s, a time of opulence and excess. However, within this group comprised of people of wealth, there are several different echelons. On Long Island there is a vast body of water that acts as a separation between the different levels of the rich, West Egg which is steeped in old money and extreme wealth and East Egg which is home to those with newly acquired wealth. Tom and Gatsby possess both wealth and privilege. However, they have gained their wealth through different means, present their wealth to the world differently and use their wealth for different purposes. In the novel The Great Gatsby, we are presented with two very wealthy characters, Tom Buchanan and Gatsby, who have different incentives for accumulating their wealth.
The Gilded Age – Troubled America’s Thin Veil Mark Twain coined the term “Gilded Age”, which was used to describe America’s economic boom, and correlative resurgence of civil unrest after the American Civil War. The word “Gilded” means covered in gold and Twain used this word to satirize America, as he saw the time of post-war prosperity as just a thin layer of gold concealing the economic struggle farmers faced, social tension and mistreatment faced by industrial workers, and political corruption by officials who used their power to line their own pockets. Technological improvements made during the late 1800s greatly improved the quality of life for middle-class Americans, but poorer agricultural workers suffered under new economic conditions.
The Gilded Age made its significance by making its mark towards the immigrants as well as the growth of industry. Increasing the demand for lumber, gold, and silver to be used towards the improvement of transportation. One of the most promising development was the railroad which helped trains move goods from the West to the East. An American author by the name, Mark Twain, was the first who to call the late 19th century the ‘Gilded Age.’
In the 1700’s the early punishments were transportation, indentured, servitude, economic sanctions, public humiliation, pillory, stocks and ducking stools.
Children were born into slavery at a young age and started to experience the hard labor. When babies were first born they were considered a slave. For instance, children were put to work at the age of 3 to 4, and from then, they could not go back to playing and having fun. The children were slowly starting to do a little work, like carrying drinking water, weeding fields, picking up trash, and helping in the kitchen. By the time they reached the ages of seven to 12, they started to work intensively. Handicapped children went to work in spinning cotton, weaving cloth, or making clothes (Digital History, 2016). White children and black children played together, not knowing what role they were born into. The white children liked the
All over Britain new factories were being built and with them, the demand for workers increased. Even though the pay was low for adults, it was still too much for the factory owners to afford. They also needed workers who were small enough to fit into the tight spaces in the new machines. Child labour was the only option. There were many more dangerous jobs which children had to perform, some included crawling under the wool and cotton machines to fix threads. These children had to work for the majority of the day with little or no breaks. Some of them were as young as four. Children were made to work in mines as rushers and harriers. These jobs as well as many other jobs often meant very young children had to work long hours. “I am a harrier. I am fourteen years old and I have been employed ever since I was six. I come to work at seven o’clock, and sometimes leave at four, five or six in the evening in summer, and in the winter near seven.” (Speed and Speed, 1985). As stated in that quote, children had a hard life working in mines and other work places. The pay was also much lower than adult workers in the same factory. Injury was common in work places for kids; they ranged from broken bones to death. The factories had very poor sanitation, which led to...
In Jane Eyre, money tempts, infects, and eventually takes control of the ideas and moral decisions of most characters. There are innumerable examples of the effect of money in Jane Eyre. However, since Jane obtained many positive qualities such as humbleness in arduous ordeals, she retains her discipline and morals when introduced to money. While it takes a long time for almost all people to attain this skill of self-discipline, Jane gains this skill earlier than most people would due to all her past tests.
We are well aware that there are wealthy people, and poorer people in today’s world. People strive to be wealthy, but what separates the wealthy from the poor? There are two mindsets between the two groups that holds the key to their failure or success. If notice closely, you will see exactly why the wealthy, and successful people are capable of living up to their full potential, and why the poverty are living in a poorer environment. In order to be wealthy and succeed in life, you don’t need a miracle, nor do you need a lot of money to get there. What Is essential, is having a positive attitude, and the right mindset. As a result, the right positive mind set will bring in exactly what you’re thinking and wanting. Wheatear that be good or bad thoughts. Here are 3 main differences in the mindsets between the wealthier groups, and the poverty groups.
To begin with, the highlighted topic of almost all historic accounts of the Elizabethan Age was the lives of nobles, “painting the pretty picture”, but most people fail to realize that there is always another side to every story. Nobles and peasants lived very different lives, as one might expect. Historic records show that “The Elizabethan Period in England had a daily life based on social order: the monarch as the highest, the nobility as the second rank, the gentry as third, merchants as fourth, yeomanry as fifth, and laborers as sixth” (Elizabethan Era). Many aspects of daily life between the nobles and the lower classes varied. One such aspect was education. The children of nobility received high quality education from renowned scholars, while most other lower class children did not even know how to write their own name. The type of education differed among boys and girls of the nobility too. Boys generally learned Latin, English, sometimes Greek, arithmetic, and religious education. Girls were taught by their mother or another female figure on housekeeping matters, tending to children, how to be a good...
Children were viewed as non-persons until the 1700's. They did not receive special treatment or recognition. Discipline then is what we now call abuse. There were some major assumptions about life before the 1700's.