The tories were prepared to introduce some reforms and Liverpool hoped to improve social and economic conditions sufficiently to win the support of moderate reformers all over the country. It was also of importance because Liverpool successfully handled the radical challenge by prosecuting hundreds of people who had done wrong and by introducing harsher punishments. Through doing this violence gradually died away. His government also introduced a few improvements such as forbidding the employment of children under the age of nine in the mills and limited the hours of nine to
Modernism, rejection of tradition Within the period of 1860 – 1935 was a time in which the art industry was going through a radical change and breaking from the tradition. Modernism refers to the philosophy and style produced around this time. Throughout the development of Europe and the rest of the world the art was greatly influenced by the surrounding influences and times that they were in. The artistic period of 1960 – 1935 was greatly influenced by changes brought on by the industrial age. “As traditional art forms had become out-dated due to industrialization, modernism emerged in Western Europe out of a need to reject tradition and embrace the political, social and economic change of the industrial age” (Arteducation.com.au 2009).
This movement began in 1826 as the alcohol was becoming increasingly widespread, affecting the efficiency of labor. Document H illustrates the detrimental effect that alcohol had on the life of the common laborer. In 1851, a law was passed which banned alcohol. This law not only protected women and children physically due to a decrease in abuse, it also supported the democratic principle that every man was equal and productive in his own right, as long as the government protected them from immoralities. The reform of the educational system (Document E) also displays the ideal of utilizing the human capacity.
The visually realised enviroment brings out more harsh qualities of human characters who inhabit it and further leads us to understand how the individual sees and percieves the world. These statements show that paul has an openess to a new experience, unlike his mother who constantly complains about the heat and his fathers indecitement of this “ town of booze and blow” paul conversely “ loves "the town "at first sight". Peter goldsworthys use of alliteration helps to convey the imagery of pauls fathers thoughts and how he percieves the town of darwin. Unlike the novel the artwork contributes to the responder visualising how the artist was feeling at the time. The main individual in the picture seems to feel like he is going insane and becoming overwhealed.
Therefore craft has always been in the curriculum but some felt it was over looked. By introducing it into the scheme of work more craft was introduced into schools and interlinked into industry careers. The government wanted art to be more purposeful e.g. advertising, as this is one of the economies largest incomes, therefore having young creative artists whom have associated art with purpose coming into the industry can only but benefit the economy. Some teachers debated that when art has a purpose or a function it takes away expressionism, and art is no longer an artist expressing themselves.
Factors that contributed to changes from this were help from social investigators like Booth and Rowntree, artistic contributions from Dickens and Dore and a realisation that the Boer's war impaired Britain’s national efficiency. The early 1600's brought the 'Elizabethan poor law' which was modified in 1662 'settlement act'. Also the Gilbert act was passed, he wanted to create a more humane method of support than that
These values include changing the utilitarian system so there is a more effective education system, more rights for the factory workers at the time of the Industrial revolution and in general more freedom and justice for the pauper or the working class people, within the Laissez faire capitalist system. Through Hard Times, Dickens criticizes the way the government chooses to run the country. As a humanitarian, he argues that no matter what class a person is in, they should always have the benefit of having basic human rights, treated greater than the respect they had from the people from the upper class and that the human mind should be allowed to explore their imagination, as well as filling the mind with facts. The text Hard Times, shows a critical middle class view among the different parts of society. The education system is the first flaw mentioned in society.
A New Historical Reading of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest Ali Wyman 4/26/12 In order to really appreciate Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, one must first consider the historical context in which the text was written, taking into account the world the author lived in, his personal experiences, and the discourses of the text. In the late 19th century Victorian society, in which The Importance of Being Earnest was written, culture was starting to shift from the traditional constructs under Queen Victoria that insisted on etiquette, propriety, and above all, knowing one’s place in society, to a more modern tone; a tone that was all but blasphemy to conventional Victorians. A look at the life of Oscar Wilde, for example, reveals a number of significant themes that can be found within his work, namely The Importance of Being Earnest, a production, as Wilde himself called it, that is “exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy… that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious and studied things of life with sincere and studied triviality.” Wilde challenged Victorian culture and supposed serious things like social standing, class, and identity throughout his life, with language in his plays portraying them as extremely trivial, as well as by pushing the envelope in his own personal life. The world in which Oscar Wilde grew up is very central to the themes represented in The Importance of Being Earnest. Victorian culture believed that social standing and class distinctions were up the utmost importance.
Definition of Distinctive Voices A distinctive voice may be interpreted as one that is unique in its context as it resonates in the audiences’ mind due to its effective use of literary techniques. Definition of Distinctive voices in Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw’s ideas can be considered as a distinctive voice because he was one highlighted the issue of genteel poverty and the notions of strict social hierarchy that was a characteristic of early 20th C. British Culture. Shaw’s purpose in all of his artistic endeavours was to enlighten his audience about the inadequacies of the old morale code pertaining to social discrimination and, thereby sought to encourage a change in approach to the social perceptions of class. Examples of how the definition of DV is portrayed in Pygmalion The play captures the setting of Shaw’s contemporary era: the very early 20th century in London. During this time society was divided into distinct classes and Shaw staged his first production of Pygmalion in 1914 at His Majesty’s Theatre in London.
1.1 The Revelation of Reality Synthetism refers to the artistic style pioneered by Post-Impressionist artists Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Louis Anquetin during the late 1880s and early 1890s to distinguish their work from Impressionism, and is associated to Symbolism especially in the case of Paul Gauguin. The verb to synthesize originally means to combine so as to generate a new, complex product, and in terms of Synthetism, it denotes a combination of the outward appearance of natural forms, the artists’ feelings about their subject and the purity of the aesthetic considerations of line, color and form. It can be viewed as an expression of defiance against the increasingly prevalent insistence upon the scientific and objective recording of nature, and it strives to invert the relationship between the artist and reality by promulgating that the painter uses nature rather than obey it. Through an intentional simplification of lines, colors and forms, Synthetism aims to maximize the subjective expressive intensity by restraining everything that is capable of undermining the overall impact. In other words, expression supersedes representation, and nature is not to be used for confessional purposes, instead its quintessence is to be distilled through the power of the artist’s imagination.