A Wounded World Victorian Child Quotes

A wounded world: A story of Abuse
Children. The light of every women’s and family world. When the phrase children quotes is googled quotes such as “The soul is healed by being with children.”,“Children make your life important.” And “Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” But also quotes such as “Children need models rather than critics” and “We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” All these quotes cater to the idea caring, loving and teaching children are ways to produce a good child. Parents are told to focus on the positive elements of their child. The idea of how to properly raise children has developed over time. During Victorian England in certain household’s harsh punishment

Charles Dickens suffered a story similar to that of Jane Eyre. His father was imprisoned for debt and he was sent to work in a blacking factory, this haunted him for the rest of his life. Though young Jane Eyre was never sent to an actual workhouse, the charity school she attended in an allegory for a workhouse. Bronte states in chapter 5 “Ranged on benches down the sides of the room, the eighty girls sat motionless and erect: a quaint assemblage they appeared, all with plain locks comb from their faces, not a curl visible” (citation). Loowood Charity School forces the girls into deplorable living conditions that in certain lights are no better than the poor and homeless. This description of Jane charity school is very similar to descriptions of workhouses in the Victorian era. These trying and tribulation conditions can be articulated to either killing or creating creativity. In Jane Eyre it took but it also gave. These harsh conditions took away her love, compassion, and humanity, but it gave her creativity and