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Edison Tian Shuo English 09Q2 20093007044 The Man with the Twisted Lip-----A Portrayal of a Degenerating England when she was at the Top Neville St. Clair was a gentleman with a decent life. He, however, would like to make up himself like a beggar for begging rather than getting a job consistent with his status because he found it was much more profitable than the so-called decent journalist work he had before. His wife was completely kept in the dark until one day she thought his husband was murdered in an opium den. The police could not solve it, and Sherlock Holmes cracked this case and disillusioned the beggar to be Neville St. Clair in the end. This story vividly portrays a society full of evil and conflicts, such as moral degeneration that one would masquerade himself a beggar just in pursuit of wealth even if he was wealthy enough, the abuse of opium that thousands of people was addicted and a high crime rate that the police could not deal with but resort to detectives such as Sherlock Holmes, during the late Victorian era, when England was at the top of its game imperially. When Britain’s economy was at the top of the world, her morality downed however.The great industrial revolution in the early Victorian era brought all kinds of science and technology that greatly improved the productivity and made England a world factory. At the same time, there remained serious social problems behind the thriving and prosperous appearance. In social life domain, the most obvious feature of this time was the social moral decay and the worship of money, which were both reflected out in this story. Wanting something for nothing, Neville St. Clair, well-educated, gave up his previously decent journalist work and disguised himself to beg in the street every day with cheating his family his interests of companies in the town. Money was superior to reputation, credit and other moral compass. From this character, readers could clearly see the moral landslide in Britain duri