There was a very wide class divide in Victorian England, almost two different worlds, with different cultures, language forms, etc. This is less true today in developed nations, but still vey much the case in many developng countries. Almost unimaginable gulfs exist, for example, between impoverished Indian peasants and the wealthy elite in that nation. Victorian England was much the same, with the lower classes numerous, powerless, and sometimes starving, while the wealthy elite, or 'Society" as it was called
then, living lives of idle luxury. There was this unfair divide in which if you were rich life was easy but for the poor came a life of suffering and struggle to stay alive.
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| The above three portraits display the living conditions for a "poor" Victorian child. Overworked, underfed and deflated by the world around them |
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| Pictured here, an affluent Victorian family. The son having means to buy a toy and a nanny. Notice the boys stature in relation to that of the pictures seen above. |
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| An ad for Harrods in the Victorian Era. See the frivolity displayed by each character. |
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