Dover_Beach_And_The_Victorian_Age

Dover Beach And The Victorian Age Dover Beach and the Victorian Age The Victorian Age brought about a new civilization. A civilization based upon industry, time, and money. Its values brought about a change in British life that was hard to cope with. The conflicting ideas of religion and science, work and education, and simply living on impulse without a chance of reflecting upon actions, invoked the state of confusion which is associated with its time. Mathew Arnold observed the plight of the Victorian Age, and sought an answer to the problems which he and his country were faced with. In both, “Dover Beach,” and in his essay, “Culture and Anarchy,” Arnold expresses the melancholy of a lost civilization, foresees its future, and seeks out a solution. The Victorian Age was changing British civilization with its progression into science and industry. However, while the Victorian Age made progress in some fields, in other areas they suffered. Religious belief was contradicted by the ideas of evolution and scientific origin theories. The people were questioning their faith and the image of their living world, which was based upon the idea of God’s creation. The industrial field of the Victorian Age quickly overtook all forms of the economy. Mass production arnold, society, world, culture, victorian, people, upon, science, religion, age, without, light, civilization, sees, sea, reason, perfection, new, faith, confusion, arnold’s, anarchy, works, waves, stanza, saw, reflect, poem, one, nor, industrialism, darkness, work, true, time, struggle