Extension English: Conventions of the victorian novel. Related text: Great expectations - Charles Dickens

The Victorian era was an age of a desolate lower class being ruled by a callous upper class. This society contained extreme prejudice, ignorance, apathy, and above all, it was superficial. These aspects provided excellent material for novels of the Victorian era. The Victorian novels documented the attitudes and historic significance and were generally concerned with seven primary concerns developed in the Victorian era. These were the adjustment of the main character, the search for …

…the Victorian novels can be traced back in connection with the empire. Victorian novels are the opinions of their authors on the deliberations and attitudes of the Victorian era. The seven main concerns of the Victorian novel reflect the sort of society it was and provides a factual historical account of the harsh living conditions and unfair government that ruled the people's lives, as well as the lives of the characters in the Victorian novels.