Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Context- The Sign of Four
- Victorian Attitudes towards drugs
- Class A (cocaine etc.) Drugs were sold in drugs stores
- Many writers at the time used drugs to trigger their creativity
- British Empire and Imperialism
- Trading
- Indian Rebellion
- Science vs. Religion
- Forensic science became popular and looked highly upon
- Charles Darwin published his theories of revolution this was seen as an attack on religion
- Classes and Wealth
- Higher classes saw the lower classes as dirty and a waste of space
- Racism in this time was prominent
- Jack the Ripper
- An unidentified murderer
- Has killed five or six women and has never been caught
- The Police
- They weren't seen to be very reliable
- Victorian Fear
- Murders
- Women
- They needed to be protected by a man because they are fragile
- They should be doing house jobs and cooking for the man of the house