Jack The Ripper
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Introduction: the identity of Jack the Ripper
The Whitechapel area of London was a crime scene between 6th August and 9th November 1888. Five women who were prostitutes were secretly murdered and one of them mutilated. Mary AnnNicholes was murdered on 31st August, Annie Chapman, on 8th September, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes on 30th September and Mary Jane Kelly on 9th November 1888 (Harrison, 2010). Being that the murderer was not seen, he was nicknamed Jack the Ripper. The identity of Jack the Ripper unknown to date, however, there are several theories that are used to try and identify who he was. One of the theories suggests that Jack the Ripper was a butcher. Proponents of this theory support it by arguing that the weapons that he used signified his knowledge of anatomy. Either, they say he could be a doctor because the mutilations that occurred showed hat he understood human anatomy (Harrison, 2010).
Various experts, historians and …show more content…
Before meeting Kelly, Barnett concentrated on his work since he knew that it was through the work that he could overcome the poverty that frustrated his entire family. Though he got the chance to legally practice boning and gutting of fish, he never used this skill to kill people that perhaps annoyed him. Similarly, the act of killing these prostitutes was just a way through which Bernett expressed his anger over a deteroriated relationship between him and his lover Kelly. In addition to this, the murder symbolized a revolution staged by Joseph Bernett against the evil deeds in the society. Personally, he hated prostitution and all the vices attached to it. He hated watching how the prostitutes exchanged men, a notion that greatly contradicted with his perception of sex. Also, he hated seeing them sharing brothels that they used to serve their
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Introduction: the identity of Jack the Ripper
The Whitechapel area of London was a crime scene between 6th August and 9th November 1888. Five women who were prostitutes were secretly murdered and one of them mutilated. Mary AnnNicholes was murdered on 31st August, Annie Chapman, on 8th September, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes on 30th September and Mary Jane Kelly on 9th November 1888 (Harrison, 2010). Being that the murderer was not seen, he was nicknamed Jack the Ripper. The identity of Jack the Ripper unknown to date, however, there are several theories that are used to try and identify who he was. One of the theories suggests that Jack the Ripper was a butcher. Proponents of this theory support it by arguing that the weapons that he used signified his knowledge of anatomy. Either, they say he could be a doctor because the mutilations that occurred showed hat he understood human anatomy (Harrison, 2010).
Various experts, historians and …show more content…
Before meeting Kelly, Barnett concentrated on his work since he knew that it was through the work that he could overcome the poverty that frustrated his entire family. Though he got the chance to legally practice boning and gutting of fish, he never used this skill to kill people that perhaps annoyed him. Similarly, the act of killing these prostitutes was just a way through which Bernett expressed his anger over a deteroriated relationship between him and his lover Kelly. In addition to this, the murder symbolized a revolution staged by Joseph Bernett against the evil deeds in the society. Personally, he hated prostitution and all the vices attached to it. He hated watching how the prostitutes exchanged men, a notion that greatly contradicted with his perception of sex. Also, he hated seeing them sharing brothels that they used to serve their