"The Lost World" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

What Can The Lost World Tell Us more or less Victorian Attitudes To Race Gender And The Environment?

This book, though scripted in Victorian times, is still a quite juvenile type of story, as it can easily be commensurate for modern times, for example, Instead of an expedition to a plateau it could be an expedition to another planet. Also the style in which is compose is different to todays books, because in the Lost World a component part of the conversations and descriptions are drawn out longer than they would be in todays book, because in Victorian times books were one of the few entertainments they could enjoy at home, whereas today we can sit down in motion of the TV, so they expected it to be longer so it could be enjoyed for longer.

The character of Gladys is stereotypical of women in Victorian times, that men accept to do all the hard fighter work spot their wife basks in the reflected glory, and women should be envied for their man, Gladys is also a really shallow person because she will only marry Ned if he is famous and be coiffes a wedge shape or something, so this is the soil Ned goes on the expedition in the first place, because he get words this as an opportunity to become a hero to impress Gladys, and that when he returns he could marry her. But to show how shallow Gladys is, when Ned does come back he finds that she has already married, and her husband is no hero either; he is just a boring solicitors clerk, so after all that talking of wanting a hero of a husband, she marries a pathetic little solicitors clerk.

We can see why she is portrayed in such a elan because the book was written by the...

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