The literature is truly the defining trait of the Victorian Era. It was a time of free speech and great love being sung from the characters. Love ballads to their country, to their mate, to how they wish the world could be. The major theme of Victorian Literature was the inequity occurring. It was the first time "the people" started to exercise their voices and speak about the things that plagued them.
Victorian literature was so important because it set the precedence for modern novels, how often is the story of a lost young man with the world working against him trying to find love and adulthood told in todays literature? Examples of that archetype include Stephen Chobsky's "Perks of Being a Wallflower" , John Greene's "Fault in Our Stars" and even J.D Salingers "Catcher in the Rye" - all arguably adapted version of Charles Dickens "Great Expectations."In this story, young Pip is born into a seemingly hopeless life, and lifted out of this faith with unwavering ambition. Through his journey he meets love and loss and the struggle to assert himself as a young man... sound familiar?
A few other authors from the time include The Bronte Sisters (pictured). Each sister had a different bone to pick with the society of the time. Charlotte was passionate about women's rights, portrayed in her famed story of Jane Eyre. Emily, more interested in the worlds lack of love- voiced in Wuthering Heights. And Anne, expressing that the world needed to rebel more from it's culture. Three sisters, all on soapboxes proclaiming what they wanted in the future.
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