Jack the Ripper

[Rosie]

I find the fact [i think this is right anyhow] that Jack the Ripper emerged two years AFTER this book was published amazing. Is it a coincidence that he is like, basically Mr Hyde? How he preyed on the innocent (if you could call prostitutes innocent) and murder them, just like Sir Danvers Carew in the story? <br><br>Just something to think about

[Cool/j]

Hey rosie,

i sgree totaly with what u r saying

would u happen to be in year 8 aswell?

Tom

PS: get back to me at [email protected]

[Zippy]

I think it was just a coincidence. Although believe it or not, one of the supects interviewed by Scotland Yard was an actor who was playing Jekyll and Hyde in a dramatisation of the novel. They thought his performance was so convincing that he could be the killer.

[xInneedx]

Did you know Jack the Ripper case is the only one beside the kenidy murder {u know the magic bullet} there the only two i think it is that arent allowed to be taken out, coz u know we can read them and things...its soo pissie..id love to read wat they sed about jack...all the different people they think who he was n_n

[Victorian142]

The newspapers reporting the Whitechappel murders actually said that there was a 'Mr Hyde on the loose in Whitechappel' and as such, they were looking for a possible proffesional man with a jekyll and hyde dissorder. So interesting when you look into the psychology of the period as multiple personality dissorder had been a recognised dissease since the 1830s, 50 years before Stevenson's publication.