Focus on Language

The public language of the Victorian Age was known for its politeness and its use of euphemisms.
When Charles Dickens enters, words as damn and hell make there entrance. Also the use of sexual metaphors started. For example; in an interesting condition, this meant pregnancy. It was also the time prostitution began to be seen as a social problem, “The fallen woman” (woman who had sexual intercourse out of wedlock) Were a great inspiration for mid-Victorian literature. They were presented as victims in the sentimental literature.