Jack The Ripper - Source related study.

Jack The Ripper . Source A shows that the murder of Polly Nicholls was totally unprovoked and was the work of a 'demented being'. It is an article describing the murders of both Polly Nicholls and Martha Tabram which say that both of the victims 'have been of the poorest of the poor' which might have been a more polite or formal way to describe prostitutes at that time. This meant that the killer didn't really have any reasons or motives to kill them. It says that the killer used an 'excess of effort' in each murder which meant that Jack the Ripper didn't leave the body or flee straight away, he concentrated on the disfigurement of the corpse and creating carnage with the bloodbath. The source is only part of the article which could have included more gruesome details of the murder, the whereabouts, more about the victims and more about the location of east London. The source also says that the murders startled London, which shows that this was turning out to be the first serial killer case ever and brought great shock and fear to people in London. 2. Source C shows the report of the third victim, Elizabeth Stride. The report suggests that the ripper spent a long time on the corpse. I can see this from the second sentence, 'her legs were drawn up, her feet close against the wall of the right side of the passage'. It also shows the Jack the Ripper might have attempted to

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Compare and Contrast the way male characters are portrayed by Chopin and Gaskell The male characters in the stories of Chopin and Gaskell are portrayed generally in a negative light, and it is partly due to the way that the authors lived their lives. Both Kate Chopin and Elizabeth Gaskell used their stories to mirror or reflect upon parts of their society that they felt undermined the basic moral rights of women. Both author's explored ideas such as male oppression and feminism (and other such key ideas for women at the time) with much depth and sensitivity. I have chosen to look at two stories which I feel best represent the kind of ideas that both women were trying to make people more aware of. Theses are Désirée's Baby by Kate Chopin, and The Half Brothers by Elizabeth Gaskell. To a certain extent, I find both authors to be in some ways biased against males. In particular, Chopin sees males in quite a disturbingly sinister light, which is reflected in the strong portrayal of the leading male in Désirée's Baby, Armand, where she claims he has an "imperious and exacting nature". Gaskell's exploration of the character of William Preston as the dominant male of the tale is not quite as blunt, in that she preferred to tackle the bare facts, leaving our own opinion on William Preston to from as the events of the story unfold: "He was reckoned an old bachelor...he was long

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