Victorian Blog #1 : Historical Context Elements

     In the book there is a section where Dorian is explaining to Lord Henry how he had come amidst his new love. He told Henry of his adventures into "a labyrinth of grimy streets and black, grassless squares" and it came to my attention that even the Victorian Era had "ghettos". Even as Dorian leaves the rigidity old theater on a different occasion he walks through the "evil looking houses". As he walks he can even hear the "hoarse voices of the women that were calling to him. there was even a drunks, doesn't this sound familiar? The Victorian Era was also the era of technological advancements, and yet they still had ghettos? one has to understand that the Victorian Era was just a less dramatic today, then; for many of the people of that time thought like many people of today. That goes into the plot of the story as well, for there is barely any differentiations from now and then.