Have you ever wondered whether you’d fit into the upper class of late-19th Century England–and wanted to be chastized with a Victorian moralistic severity if you don’t? If this is your greatest desire, well, get in line behind the Canadians! The McCord Museum in Montreal has made dreams come true for those of us who’ve read Jane Eyre eighteen times (I don’t know any of those people…). Someone with a talent for animation–and fantastic homemade sound effects, like Monty Python-style women’s voices–has crafted an ingenious interactive game that asks you, in the persona of a Victorian man or woman, to navigate a number of difficult choices in various social arenas: dressing for a dinner, greeting friends at the park, reaching out to a partnerless lady at a ball. Depending on how much Dickens you’ve read, you may glide through with flying colors. But I strongly recommend getting some wrong answers just to see what those funny Canadians at the McCord mete out as hilarious punishment. I chose the wrong dress for a dinner at home and got run over by a carriage. I guess some of us take our period reenactment exercises a little more seriously than others.
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