Burke and Hare Chapters 1-4

I thought it was really interesting how in the beginning Burke is telling the guard he wants to make a confession, so he gets this group of people together to make his "confession" but really he is telling them how he isn't a resurrection man who dug up bodies in graveyards. He actually murdered all the bodies to keep a steady flow of fresh corpses to sell to Dr. Knox. Before I had finished reading chapter 4, I thought Burke was going to admit how sorry he was for what he did but instead it seemed like he was kind of bragging about all the people him and Hare had murdered. I think this shows how Burke and Hare could be considered madmen because of everything they did to murder people just because they wanted to make money of their corpses. I also think they are madmen because it seems like they know they are doing the wrong thing by killing these people for their bodies but they continue to do it and find more people to suffocate and then "dispose of their bodies".

Anna Bunge

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