Repression and making your appearance line up with the requirements of a judgmental world made life tough no matter what your class was.

​What's really important?

​The Victorian World

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Aristocrats and the middle class people (bourgeois) ​

​really wanted to be aristocratic were perfect subjects for comedy.

​Who are the obvious "wannabes" of our time?

​Oscar Wilde

​Were people better or worse off in Victorian times than in the other eras we've studied? Hiding your problems doesn't get them better. Romantics saw that there were lots of problems in their time too, but didn't hide them.

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Society is always a mess

​Wilde recognized that his world had a lot wrong with it, but he kept his sense of humor and his hope alive.

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​Should only perfect people try to make the world better?

​Taking on the hypocrites

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