![]() ![]() They liked a structured society in which higher class were the ones taking control. In the article “Anthropology by gaslight: Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle and the anthropology of detection at the Victorian fin de siècle,” John McNabb posits, “The threat of change and social unrest in the 1830s and 1840s had to be resisted in order to maintain the sanctity of the status quo. Whereas Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories can be a depiction of his century, Most of the foreign characters are always perceived as a disturbance to the amicable British population.Ĭitizens of the Victorian era seemed to be afraid of change. Throughout the short story of The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle involved different representation of race such as the murder of the butler and the gypsies. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writings were not generally made for the modern era, they were meant for the consumption for people during the Victoria Era. ![]() ![]() British Literature during that time contained different racial, social, and moral standards compared to now. European racism during the Victorian Era was solely based on science, religion, class, colonial conquest and ties to slavery. ![]()
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