Was the Victorian Era Really as High Class as it was Said to Be?
...ed it from their peers. So much so that truth was almost a completely foreign concept to them. To be lied to was the only thing one could expect to get out of this era. Absolutely nobody was completely honest. These lies were needed to keep up their seemingly prude and perfect lifestyle. Without the deceit, the dark underside of Victorian society would show through and the era would have never existed. “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike” (Wilde 42). This statement is a good way of describing what Victorian morality was. It was simply a way of saying that one was better than their foes. Morals were just a charade created to make one look better and their adversaries look worse. Yet the people of these times preached to the heavens about how these morals were the way of life. Lies were stacked on top of lies and not a single person would admit to their guilt, rather they would add lies to the stack to keep themselves looking perfectly proper. They would point fingers at others to keep the public’s critical eye from scanning over their suit of lies and detecting a fault. The truth would eventually come out though. As stated by Lady Markby in An Ideal Husband ”Indeed, as a rule everybody turns out to be somebody else” (Wilde 5). Everyone knew these lies were circulating around freely but no one wanted to sully their hands by letting anything out. They didn’t want to become the next target of society to be sacrificed so that the charade could continue its life. That is how the Vi...