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A 3 page paper which asks how important social class was in “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson and “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Conan Doyle are stories which take place in England around the latter part of the 19th century. This was a period in time that was very constrictive in relationship to
many social conditions, what with the rise of the industrial revolution, and the changes in society. As such one can clearly ask how important social class was in the works
of these two men, what sort of role social class played in their novels. The following paper, upon asking the importance of social class in the stories, examines the answer.
Social Class: Stevenson and Doyle As mentioned, social position, social class, was a very rigid reality in the 19th century in England. People were essentially either struggling to
maintain what class they had or trying to achieve a higher position of class. An individual would, however, normally find themselves being born, living and dying in the same class,
never rising higher. Class was a gauge of ones worth in many respects, and people did whatever possible to maintain the best class they could. In Doyles novel Dr.
Jekyll was a very fine and upstanding man, a man of relatively good class who was seen as one who would only go on to great things. He was a
physician and very well respected. He was also a man who had been born "to a large fortune" and thus was in want of nothing to do with a better
social position (Stevenson). However, because of his brilliant mind, and perhaps because of his desire to be something aside from a well respected man, he sought refuge in lower
classes. This was not something acceptable in his day and age. A man of good standing could not cavort with low class women or men. Jekyll seems stifled by this,
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