Working Class
Connections: The connections between the Hound of the Baskervilles and working class is the Barrymore’s. The Barrymore’s are working class as they are servants of the Baskerville family. The idea of social mobility connects to them, as their family has been serving the Baskervilles for generations. Their family shows an obvious lack of social mobility and the lack of opportunity for mobility, which was common during this time period for the working class.
Connections: The connections between the Hound of the Baskervilles and working class is the Barrymore’s. The Barrymore’s are working class as they are servants of the Baskerville family. The idea of social mobility connects to them, as their family has been serving the Baskervilles for generations. Their family shows an obvious lack of social mobility and the lack of opportunity for mobility, which was common during this time period for the working class.
Poor Class
- Connection: As with the other classes, connections can be made with the characters in the novel, specifically with Selden and Laura. Selden represent the part of society that was characterized by his criminality and what the upper classes feared. He is not just an escape convict but a murderer. His crime depicts the worst of his class; the poor and destitute. Therefore, it is important that he be destroyed in order to bring stability to the social order. In contrast another character falls within the scope of this class and that is Laura Lyons. Her circumstances of being abandoned by her husband and her father diminishes her status, placing her within the poor. Were it not for the help that Sir Charles and to some degree Stapleton, Laura would easily be destitute. Depicting Laura as lacking status two objectives are reinforced: a women position in a man's world and the consequences of losing said position.