Jack The Ripper Thesis

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Jack the Ripper
He is known by three names; “Leather Apron,” “The Whitechapel Murder,” and most infamous of all, “Jack the Ripper.” The man who terrorized the poor Whitechapel district of London’s East End during the Victorian era and left behind one of the greatest murder mysteries of all time.
Before the famed murders occurred, the East End of London was already in dismay. "The East End of London in 1888 is often depicted as being one vast slum that was inhabited by an immoral and criminal population who were little better than savages" (Jones). Historians believed the East End to be a poverty stricken ghetto where violence and vice were not uncommon (Jones). The population of the East End consisted mostly of Jewish and Russian immigrants who “came to start a new life and start businesses,” which in fact caused some racial tension between the urbanites already living there ("Jack the Ripper"). …show more content…

The murders started in August and lasted about twelve weeks. "Then [Jack the Ripper] would mutilate the woman, usually carrying off some part of her anatomy, such as the kidney or uterus. The butchery was so precise that police officers believed the Ripper must have had special anatomical knowledge and might have been a doctor—or a butcher." (Lerner and Lerner 99-101). The Ripper only targeted prostitutes who he humiliated before butchering them; actions done in a fashion of resentment ("Jack the Ripper"). Unfortunately, Jack the Ripper was never caught or

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