{"id":756,"date":"2017-09-28T09:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=756"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:45:29","slug":"the-failing-aristocracy-in-victorian-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/28\/the-failing-aristocracy-in-victorian-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Failing Aristocracy in Victorian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

When looking at The Hound of Baskervilles<\/u> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through the lenses of Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/u> by Mary Braddon, how young men in the aristocracy can be na\u00efve and somewhat prideful. In both novels appear young aristocratic male characters who are<\/strong> the last living male heirs to their family\u2019s estate who have been thrown into a mystery surrounding the well-being of their family. In The Hound of Baskerville<\/u> Sir Henry Baskerville says, \u201cWhichever it is, my answer is fixed. There is no devil in hell, Mr. Holmes, and there is no man upon earth who could can prevent me from my final answer.\u2019 His dark brows kitted and his face blushed to a dusky red as he spoke\u201d (Doyle 38). Henry does not listen to Sherlock\u2019s or Dr. Mortimer\u2019s advice. He assumes that he knows more than both the men even though they are more educated and older than he is. Henry does not like the idea of someone telling him what to do or having any sort of control over him, hence he does not care if there might be a threat of danger to him. Henry\u2019s reaction to Sherlock\u2019s warning reveals how he is not only ignorant of the situation, but that he is prideful that he cannot imagine being at the will of someone else.<\/p>\n

This depiction of the aristocracy also appears in Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/u>, \u201cHe [Robert] was a handsome, lazy, care-for-nothing fellow, of about seven-and-twenty; the only son of a younger brother of Sir Michael Audley\u201d (Braddon 35). Like Henry, Robert is also an ignorant and entitled person. He does not work very hard and it is seen many times in the novel that he is not a particularly smart person. These two men together represent how the aristocracy is not as amazing as sometimes imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When looking at The Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through the lenses of Lady Audley\u2019s Secret by Mary Braddon, how young men in the aristocracy can be na\u00efve and somewhat prideful. In both novels appear young aristocratic male characters who are the last living male heirs to their family\u2019s estate who have … Continue reading The Failing Aristocracy in Victorian Literature<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}