The Origin of Species: The most significant work of Victorian literature

Abstract

This paper aims to throw light on the scientific principles, fundamental concepts,
contemporary relevance as well as influence of Darwinian model of evolution on Victorian England which transmuted the understanding of humanity regarding its origins and the working of the natural world. Darwin observes in his magnum opus The Origin of Species that it is Nature that selects the ones most fit to survive by bequeathing them advantageous variations and thereby deciding the survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence. In the past, it was natural theology which gave answers to the biggest questions of mankind but Darwinian model provided more plausible answers by providing evidence for its arguments
against the traditional notion that each species had been independently created. Darwinian model also had repercussions worldwide through the movement of Social Darwinism and The New Atheism. This research compares and contrasts evolution with creationism and explicates the effects of Darwinian model of evolution on the bourgeois, affluent and the proletariat population of the postmodern world and Victorian Age.

against the traditional notion that each species had been independently created. Darwinian model also had repercussions worldwide through the movement of Social Darwinism and The New Atheism. This research compares and contrasts evolution with creationism and explicates the effects of Darwinian model of evolution on the bourgeois, affluent and the proletariat population of the postmodern world and Victorian Age.