Social Classes, Prostitution and Jack the Ripper in the 19th Century England

After British enlightenment in the mid-eighteenth century, tensions between social classes increased. There is a big gap between nobility and the working class, but society has many new levels. Rich are living the most fulfilling life, but lower classes are keen to find other ways to earn money. Prostitution is becoming more common, bringing inequality and social stratification between the poor and the wealthy, and the number of prostitutes is increasing every year due to the economic crisis.

The view of marriage and social class in British society of the 19th century is quite different from that of modern American society. In England in the 19th century, marriage had two major problems. It is a marriage for wealth (marriage) and social class (stability). Jane Austen shows that marriage is not the love of most people in that era, but the behavior of survival, high level, social position. The value of English in the 19th century was almost the same. Women get married for wealth and stability, and men get married for comfort and companionship. However, as it is everywhere, there are exceptions. Not all men and women are married for these reasons. Other people do not have the same views and values ​​as other Britons in the 19th century.

In the nineteenth century, there were two great fears in the UK: fear of revolution and fear of the rise of middle class. The French Revolution was severed by thousands of French aristocrats who fear into the English minds in the late eighteenth century (Smith 8), their lower classes opposed aristocrats. With the rise of the middle class, this fear of low-level transit class border continued until mid-19th century. With the reform bill and the rise of the industrial revolution, the middle class has acquired sufficient power to "form a society with images" (loft). England is again concerned about this social liquidity, allowing any lower class to become a self-grower. Mary Sherry 's novel Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll, and Mr. Hyde' s strange incident of Robert Louis Stevenson dealt with this fear of social mobility. Furthermore, I think that this is a gender process, men must deny women and make them socially fluid.