Contexts

Question 1

Explain the city/urban setting?

Answer 1

-poverty
-crime
-industrial/technological progress
-duality (east/west)
-smog + pollution

Question 2

Explain the duality in society?

Answer 2

-wealth/poverty
-lawyers/servants
-savage/civilized

Question 3

Explain the science vs religion?

Answer 3

-Darwinian theory and Calvinist theology (sin/shame)
-scientific progress : the body and medicine; ethics

Question 4

Explain the Victorian gentlemen?

Answer 4

-homosocial; stratified status; legitimacy; law and order
-maintaining their reputation

Question 5

Explain the transgression?

Answer 5

-crime and sin (addiction, sexuality, violence)
-repression and secrecy
-capitalism and excess
-detective
-science-fiction
-gothic genres

Question 6

Explain the psychological context?

Answer 6

-madness
-psycho-sexual
-Id + Ego + Superego

Question 7

Explain the Victorian fin de siècle society?

Answer 7

-addictions
-hypocrisy
-immorality

Question 8

Explain the working-class London?

Answer 8

-not respectable
-a place where respectable men fulfil their dark desires

Question 9

Explain Darwin’s theory?

Answer 9

-all creatures evolved from common ancestors, which went against what Christianity taught
-idea that there may be an animalistic side to everyone