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gentleman’s manners and etiquettes.

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This article is called What Were Victorian era gentleman’s manners and etiquettes. It is an explanation of how men from Victorian era should behave, dress, eat and more to be accepted inside this pretty critic period of time. First of all, the article mentions that a feature Victorian’s men have is that they must not have to work to earn money or doing some kind of labor to survive. These men must own many lands and have a generous income. Likewise, another feature of them is that they must behave polite, they must never inflict pain, they have to be initiative, support their actions and have a luxury life that emphasize and embrace their gentle-man nature.

It keeps mentioning that men should not have fights with each other’s, but they try to maintain a respectable reputation in front of their family, friends and citizens. They must emanate confidence and cleanness for other people to feel at ease when having a conversation with them. While they are talking to people, he must pay attentions to everybody’s opinions, acting gentle, merciful, caring with them all no matter who they are, and how they are acting.