Gull’s hatred and implicit fear over the advent of women’s rights wasn’t something limited to him either, in the real world and in the comic. Gull, a freemason, believes London to be a profoundly mystical city from which he can cast a vast ritual using the killings. However, their perpetrator, Sir William Gull, has an ulterior motive for committing these crimes. In From Hell, the Jack the Ripper murders are fictionalized to be part of a vast royal coverup. The killings became a media sensation and has been ingrained in the public consciousness ever since, due to the gruesome nature of the murders, the speculation over the killer’s identity and the fact that the case was never solved. In the real world, the Jack the Ripper murders were a tragic spree of serial killings that claimed the lives of at least five women in 1888 in London’s East End. While Moore plays with a combination of real and invented history, the story’s deeper meaning is a metaphorical one. In Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s classic graphic novel From Hell, the Jack the Ripper murders are shown to be part of a magical ritual that reinforces the power of the patriarchy over the course of the 20th century.
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