Week 8 Essay Prompts (3 options)
1) Select either the pro-vivisection or anti-vivisection position. Craft an argument for or against the Cruelty to Animals Act (1876) based on this perspective.
2) What did the 1860s and 1870s debates over Darwin’s theory of evolution and vivisection reveal about Victorian anxieties?
3) See essay prompt on Darwin’s argument in Origin of Species (web handout).