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A 12 page research paper that examines three nineteenth century, Victorian narratives-- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and E.T.W. Hoffman's The Sand-man. The writer contrasts and compares these works from a standpoint that includes the Victorian concepts of criminality and deviance. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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sources. 00vicdev.rtf A Victorian View of Deviance ? June, 2000 ? properly! Three tales of horror
and deviance that reflect the attitudes the Victorian era are Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevensons Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and E.T.W. Hoffmans The Sand-man. (A note to
the student researching this topic: Some references said "E.T.W." and some "E.T.A." but since they all referred to the same story line and characters, they are obviously referring to the
same work.) The attitudes of Victorians were vastly different from the worldview that is considered to be "politically correct" today. The Victorians viewed deviance from social norms as
a phenomenon that occurred strictly in the "lower" classes, whom they regarded as a completely different "race" from respectable, middle-class Victorians. A comparison of these three works will reveal how
each of these authors attempted in his or her own way to offer a rebuttal against the highly discriminatory views of their society pertaining to origins of deviance and the
questions of inequality within that society. In order to fully comprehend the points being made by these authors, however, it is first necessary to see them in the context of
the society in which they originated. The Victorian view of criminality The commonly expressed public opinion during the Victorian era was that lower class people, particularly criminals, were somehow "different"
from respectable, middle-class Victorians (Robb 486). It is fascinating to read school textbooks from this era that were obviously intended to indoctrinate the next generation to the Victorian definition of
"race." One text from 1883 instructions schoolchildren to "look round your school, you will see that most of the girls and boys have light hair and blue eyes" (Heathorn 395).
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