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 identity, the question of the gentleman, the industrial scene, religion, unbelief and doubt and the British…