The victims of popular culture

The beauty culture of modern society is what stretches the truth of the victims of Jack the Ripper.
Far from the young and beautiful examples seen in films such as 'A Study in Terror' and 'From Hell', they were the main example of what many women were forced to become simply to survive in London during the late 1800's.

Though no film director or producer with a mind for their future career would dare endeavour to make the victims seem exactly as they were during the times. The story of Jack the Ripper is one that has been constantly glossed over to make it sell. When observing the many examples of the modern serial killer, the story of Jack the Ripper isn't all that shocking.

A possible point of view is that the legend has been romanticised throughout the generations. The Ripper is characterised as a hunter of the modern perspective of sexuality, the illusion that makes the story all the more attractive. Even the most honest interpretations of the original case have not abandoned this fact. It's not so much the story itself, but the potential image that is used to sell the story through countless interpretations from the re-tellings, to the inclusion of the Ripper as a mere plot device.

Edward Bromage (0806096)