Science as Savior and Destroyer in The Victorian Age Essay -- Literatu

Science as Savior and Destroyer in The strait-laced Age The Victorian age was first and foremost an age of transition. The England that had at a time been a feudal and agricultural society was transformed into an industrial republic (Mitchell, xiv). Just about every aspect of Victorian daily life, from reproduction to cooking to religion and politics, was changing. The Victorian age in English literary productions is known for its earnest obedience to a moralistic and highly organize social code of conduct however, in the last decade of the nineteenth century this order began to be questioned (It is my Duty). In celebration of industrial achievements the peachy Exhibition of 1851 became a showplace for the world to witness Englands superiority in modern technology. The exhibit was seen by some six million visitors in some periods the daily attendance was well over 100,000 (Mitchell, 8). The new railway system system brought the curious visitors from all o ver the country. The next few years would see the construction of the subway system, electric lights, telegraph and telephone, steamships and electric trams. on with the increasing reliance on technology, the medical field would also dispense their discoveries with the world. The fear of disease would prompt hygienic standards and germ theories. The wealthys obsession with health beliefs and practices are manifested in their fear of disease. This obsession with health is taken to the extreme in the form of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his belief in biological living, which included a meatless diet, a ... ... is my Pleasure. 19th degree Celsius Victorian Monstrosities. Essay Two. httpwww.itech.fgcu.edu/faculty.rtotaro/ Mitchell, Sally. Daily Life in Victorian England. Westport, CT The Greenwood Press. 1996. Reed, John R. The Natural History of H. G. Wells. Athens, Ohio Athens University Press. 1982 Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H yde. 1886. naked as a jaybird York Dover Publications, Inc. 1991. Wells, H. G. Experiment in Autobiography Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very customary Brain (Since 1866). 1934. Boston Little, Brown and Company. 1962. Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau. 1897. wise York Bantam Books, 1994. Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. 1895. New York Dover Publications, Inc., 1995. Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. 1890. New York Dover Publications, Inc. 1993.