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What do we learn about Victorian society in The Picture Of Dorian Gray?
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What do we learn about Victorian society in The Picture Of Dorian Gray? The Victorian age was the time when the British Empire was at its strongest and greatest. People of Britain felt better and more special then other people from different countries. The nature of England had begun to change, the farming industry began to deteriorate and England started to become a manufacturing industry. It was the time of contrast especially where the rich were extremely rich and the poor were extremely poor. Aristocracy was everything and it was what everyone wanted to be even though the aristocratic world was the smallest minority of about one percent of England's population. The Vane family is of a middle class and they are aspiring to social advancement. However in comparison to the upper class the still seem like the "seedy" poor. Wilde shows that the desire to be upper class is misplaced...
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