During the Victorian Era , prostitution was not allowed . It went against what they believe back then about how women should be and their values. Even though it has been told there was roughly eighty thousands of women who were working as prostitutes in just in London. During this time the ladies were seen as what upper class or middle class should ever become . Even though they had many critics, many of the women had to go out and find ways to earn money. Most of them were getting paid better than working in shops . This is why the chose prostitution. Which was due to economic necessities. But things started going downhill for these girls earning their money . There was not a cure for sexual transmitted diseases then so things started rapidly spreading.

Reading about the sweat shops and the labor was horrible. The things the lower class had to go through and how little pay the received from working all day . The had low pay and horrible working conditions. The conditions were filthy and some places it was not safe to work in. People had no choice but to work in those conditions and accept the little to almost nothing pay they were being paid. The things that are the same from then and now would be how there are some places where people are still being treated poorly in poor working conditions. The only thing about today is how we have rules and people can defend themselves from extreme conditions. We have a human resource department in almost every job.

The picture above shows during this time in Glasgow, the population was going rapid that the was so many poor towns and people living in them. The streets of this town were cramped up with people . All this cause many problems. Crimes were becoming a thing and most of the people who lived here from poor working class immigrant families who either came from Ireland or different cities. This picture caught my attention because you can clearly see in the pictures how filthy the streets look. The women and what seems like her children are just standing there in an alley. By the first looks of the picture you can only image how it really was then. How over crowded it was and having to live there and not having anything else .

After reading about the Victorian Era I came to realize how many things we are still doing exactly today how they did them . It is crazy to believed that being in different centuries and being in a different society , with different politics and technology, we still have similarities with them. One thing that caught my attention to our similarities with them was modern tools they invented and how we came to modernize them and improve them. Not only tools but how they spread medical knowledge.Many women like Florence Nightingale who helped out and spread out medical knowledge, improved the sanitation in hospitals . If it was not for her and those others who improve that ,many people would of continued to die by simple infections that could of been prevented . Today we continue to help keep hospitals clean for others to help spread any deadly disease or viruses that can be easily passed .

WHAT ? Oscar Wilde is well known for his poems and stories. Wilde was a popular during the Victorian Era mostly for his infamous imprisonment for homosexuality. During that time in history homosexuality was not accepted by anyone. Homosexuality acts were a criminal offense in England at the time and remained illegal there until the 1960s. Even thought he spend two year of hard labor for that , Oscar Wilde is remember for poems like The Picture of Dorian Gray and his famous play written The Importance of Being Earnest .

WHEN ? Oscar Wild’s life event all happen during the Victorian Era in the 1860s. Specific time of Oscar’s life was in 1854 he was born . On 1884 he married his wife and later had children. In 1895 he was was convicted of the homosexuality and was sentenced to two years in prison.

WHO? Oscar Wilde famous poet and writer who was born to literary parents. Who later became famous for his imprisonment for homosexuality during the Victorian Era.

WHY ? The reason behind Oscar Wilde imprisonment for homosexuality was because during this time it was not accepted and was illegal until the 1960s in England. The only way people found out about his homosexuality was because he was spending a lot of time with a young man named Lord Alfred Douglas. Douglas’s dad send Wilde a note and Oscar decided to get a lawsuit. Douglas’s dad hired detectives and had several testified against Wilde. He was found guilty and sentence to two years in prison where he later came out and reunited with Lord Alfred.

WHEN ? Oscar Wilde life accomplishments and imprisonment all happen during the Victorian Era in the 1860s until his death in 1900.

HOW? Once Douglas’s dad had witness to testified there was not much Oscar could of done to save him. With the aw during that time he had to serve time for what they consider a crime back then.

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/i/the-importance-of-being-earnest/oscar-wilde-biography

This blog will contain about 40 posts through out the semester. Different topics more than 3 times a week . Expect things like different topics with different ideas and opinions. I have blogged before for other classes but I think this one is different in a way that I will blog about what. I have learn in class so far. Other classes were just simple topics our teacher would give us. This class is base of the Victorian Era. Each day we can look back at what we have learn and compared it to how similar it is to today’s society. We continue to do the same things people in the Victorian Era would do. I hope I learn more about the similarities we have with them and others can see what I have learn so far.