![]() Alan Moore’s particular emphasis on the erotic as a biological and cultural force creates some ambiguity in the work’s pro-matriarchal ideological values by naturalising much of the tale within a libidinal machine. Linking ancient religion and mythology to a thousand years of British history, the sexual violence in From Hell is cast in the frame of a successful victory of patriarchy over matriarchy. His anti-hero, physician Sir William Gull, justifies the serial murders and dissection rituals as a necessary continuation of Victorian inequality and as a symbolic manifestation of patriarchy’s counterattack. While rape and other acts of physical repression are easily linked to the notion of sexual violence, Moore’s treatment is concentrated on the society as a whole. In From Hell, Alan Moore establishes systemic patriarchal sexual violence against the backdrop of Victorian London. ![]()
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