How did people lived when Jack The Ripper was around?

Answer 1

Jack the Ripper has remained popular for a lot of reasons. He was not the first serial killer, but he was probably the first to appear in a large metropolis at a time when the general populace had become literate and the press was a force for social change. The Ripper also appeared when there were tremendous political turmoil and both the liberals and social reformers, as well as the Irish Home rule partisans tried to use the crimes for their own ends. Every day the activities of the Ripper were chronicled in the newspapers as were the results of the inquiries and the actions taken by the police. Even the feelings of the people living in the East End, and the editorials that attacked the various establishments of Society appeared each day for both the people of London and the whole world to read. It was the press coverage that made this series of murders a "new thing", something that the world had never known before. The press was also partly responsible for creating many myths surrounding the Ripper and ended up turning a sad killer of women into a "bogey man", who has now become one of the most romantic figures in history. The rest of the responsibility lies with the Ripper. He may have been a sexual serial killer of a type all too common in the 1990s, but he was also bent on terrifying a city and making the whole world take notice of him by leaving his horribly mutilated victims in plain sight. Lastly, the Ripper was never caught and it is the mysteries surrounding this killer that both add to the romance of the story and creating an intellectual puzzle that people still want to solve.

Answer 2

Historically speaking, the Victorian era was on the brink of the industrial revolution. Machines were beginning to replace humans, there were advances in science and medicine, in Paris a new style of art called impressionism was trying to achieve mainstream acceptance, transportation was by foot, horse, train or boat, the automobile was decades in the future, and of course in London's east end a killer was on the loose.

Answer 3

The entire city of London was terrified. I feel this may have been the reason that after the murder of Mary Kelly on November 9, 1888, the press stopped writing about the murderer which is why the myth that the Ripper stopped killing began to circulate. Eventually, the terror subsided and after a time it was business as usual in the Whitechapel district.