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A 12 page research paper that uses Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes' story 'The Sign of the Four' and Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde' as a springboard to exploring the Victorian mindset as suggested by these two narratives. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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through one of Londons thick fogs. He states that "humankind...flitted from the gloom into the light and so back into the gloom once mor!e" and that the "dull, heavy evening"
combined with this image to make him feel "nervous and depressed" (Doyle PG). Throughout Doyles "Sherlock Holmes" story, "The Sign of the Four," and also in Robert Louis Stevensons
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde," the city of London is featured and is arguably the quintessential Victorian setting. However, in direct response to the question posed
by the student researching this topic, i.e., would I recommend the student agree that the "city described by the authors is a kind of externalization of the Victorian mind?" --While
this statement can be argued as true, there are so few direct references to the city, per se, in each of these works that it would be difficult to
compose a paper of any great length arguing this point. On the other hand, there are a great many concepts encapsulated in both of these narratives that demonstrate the forces
that shaped the Victorian era, to the point where one can argue that! these factors constitute an externalization of the Victorian mind. The following discussion will illustrate these points, and
references to the city of London are referred to whenever possible as they substantiate the overall framework of looking at these works as indicative of the Victorian worldview. Information
unique to the Victorian era abound throughout these works. For example, even though the telephone was available from the beginning of Sherlock Holmes fictional career, historians point out that the
telephone, as an invention, was very slow to "catch on" (Parris 480). As late as 1905, scarcely more then one percent of the British population had telephones (Parris 480). Consequently,
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