![]() ![]() ![]() What was supposed to be a highly esteemed couple of men, professors and doctors at that, were truly morbid and suspicious, another reference to Shelley’s use of appearance and true depiction of ones self. This gives it more of an eery vibe, seeing as how its based on a true story reflects a kind of documentary. Apparently, this story was inspired by the confession of William Burke who was a murdered and procurer of corpses. This story is based around an immoral theme, highlighting the gothic era it was written in by Stevenson. The narrator begins to lose these emotions he has for this wrongful business and become voluntarily, completely devoted to its success. The narrator was surprised and appauled by this, but Macfarlane eventually persuades him into “manning up” and getting on with their business. ![]() The story goes on to describe that Macfarlane had murdered their friend, Gray, in order to receive the money. As the narrator describes, the bodies were thought to be naturally deceased, however, the narrator realizes when a well known woman’s dead body was brought to them, these bodies were illegal and wrongfully murdered for the money. The narrator described two men, Macfarlane and Fettes, as parters in a sketchy business for paying to get dead bodies to dissect in their classroom. This story was quite difficult for me to follow, actually. ![]()
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