Importance of Victorian Period
The Victorian period is hallmarked by Queen Victoria's rule from June 1837 to January 1901. The period saw the British Empire bloom to become the major players in international trade. The Victorian Era was a time of contrasts—poverty as well as prosperity, degrading manual labor as well as technological progress, and depravity as well as virtue. In many ways it was paradoxically “the best times” and “the worst of times” as quoted from Charles Dickens novel Tale of Two Cities. Conflicts of Faith and Doubt The foundation of evolutionary theory, On the Origin of Species , was published by Charles Darwin in 1859. He stirred up a huge cloud of doubt into the Victorian society through this seminal piece of work. The religious society began to question their faith and went in search of facts. Darwinism, coupled with the new science discoveries being made, posed serious problems for the church and society, causing people to challenge their religious beliefs and have many doub...