Western Civilization II / Unit 12 WC2 1102 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Fear of the Working Class, Degeneration, and the Beast Beneath: Dracula and Jekyll
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The idea
If everyone got what they deserved, the poor deserved poverty, and a demand for shorter days was laziness. Beneath the confidence ran fear: of revolution, of the poor outbreeding the rich, of degeneration. Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde put the beast under respectability.
In practice
Strawberries in ether, among the anchor's examples.
Where people slip
The novels are the anchor's reading of the age.
Your place on the trail
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Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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