The Three Musketeers | Social Sensitivity
Because The Three Musketeers takes place in the seventeenth century and was written almost 150 years ago, the standards and customs of the society pictured differ considerably from those of today. Twentieth-century readers, particularly American readers, may not always understand the social relationships of a complexly hierarchical society. The main characters almost all come from the upper classes and assume their superiority on the social scale quite unconsciously. The terms "gentleman" and "lady" had different connotations then than they do now, and they were applied only to...
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