ATTIVITA’ PAG 1-2-3-4-5

1 DISCUSS. What is the meaning of ‘compromise’?

Why do you think it is related to the Victorian Age?

2 READ the text and check if your predictions to exercise 1 were correct.

3 COMPLETE the table with the correct word.

NOUN ADJECTIVE
stable
dutiful
respectability
comfort
charity
patriarchy
chaste
prudery

5) ANSWER the following questions about the text.

5.1) Why did the Victorians feel forced to promote a strict code of values?

5.2) Which social classes refned this code?

5.3) What did the Victorian code of values consist of? In your analysis consider the following concepts:

• respectability;

• work;

• family;

• sex.

5.4) What is the meaning of the word ‘compromise’ when applied to the Victorian way of life?