Monday, December 6, 2010
The Story of The Door
In the prereading articles it was made obvious that your mannerisms and the way you acted were very prominent in the Victorian era. The manners and dialect that are shown in the story of The Door reflected how people were ranked socially during this era. This was showed while Stevenson was describing Utterson and Enfield especially when saying that Utterson was a socially awkward, a drunk, and a lawyer, but was still popular in the community. He said that Enfield who was a doctor, was very sociable, and was also popular around town. This showed that even if you had good manners, which both of them did, meant that no matter where you came from you still could be popular in this society.
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You mentioned that people were ranked socially in the Victorian Era. Now were Enfield and Utterson in the same social class or was Enfield in a higher class?
ReplyDeleteI think they are if they are friends and always talk
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