Victorian Period

Victorian Period

Maria Fernanda BeltranLaura Delgado Diana Gonzalez

Monday, February 9, 15

• 1-. What makes people doubt about religion?


• 2-. What was the irony in “The Doubt: can dry bones live”?


• 3-. How was architecture affected by the new scientific discoveries?


• 4-. Why did people become obsessed with death?


• 5-. What did the monkey with the book represent?


answers

• 1-. People doubted about religion because during the Victorian period, science took an important role with all the discoveries that were made, changing the way people think. For example, the discovery of fossils let society know that the earth was older than what the bible said.


• 2-. The irony was mainly about the coexistence of the two theories of the time; the skull represented death and the scientific point of view, while the butterfly showed the resurrection taking into account religion. The woman was looking at this representing doubt about both of them.


• 3-. Through architecture and art people used to express new beliefs by portraying nature and animals in buildings and constructions in order to keep alive religion and make it stronger.


• 4-. People became obsessed with death because science brought rational explanations about everything and the idea of an eternal life disappeared which lead people to question about the other side.


• 5-. The monkey with the book represented a sly mockery to Darwin because of the theory of evolution that had been recently proposed by him. It was a critique towards the fact that the monkey was the step behind the creation of the human race. If a monkey cannot understand a book, a human can’t come from this animal.
