Alexandra Lloyd What role did 19th Century popular serial novels such as Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone play in British understandings of India? When Wilkie Collins first wrote The Moonstone in 1868‚ it was not published in the form available today‚ but was published in instalments in a popular Victorian magazine‚ All the Year Round. Upon its first publication it was eagerly read by the general British public‚ for its readership not only included the ruling and upper classes‚ but the cost and
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The Moonstone Essay The Moonstone‚ written in 1868 by Wilkie Collins is a mystery novel about a gem called "The Moonstone". The moonstone is somewhat a symbol of what everyone strives for‚ beauty and power. In the book‚ justice plays a huge role in terms of doing what is fair and morally right through action and attitude. Although the moonstone is overbearingly beautiful and breathtaking‚ like all beautiful things‚ it has a history "..that crime brings its own fatality with it" (Ch. IV). With
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change what could have happened‚ for it is physically impossible‚ and the future will always be affected by the choices we made in the past. Wilkie Collins main focus was to show that even through all the mistakes we made in the past and how hard we try to forget and cover them up‚ they will still remain a part of us forever. In the beginning of the Moonstone a brief but very detailed description of the setting is given‚ establishing a well based focus for the story. The way the sea is elaborated
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Dj Dunn April 1 Ms. Fitzgerald/ D5 Pre-AP Paper The Moonstone In the text the narrator’s style of writing reveals his attitude toward the people he describes. He feels as if the gentlefolks are inconsiderate‚ unnecessarily curious‚ people with nothing but idle time on their hands. This attitude is shown in the text by how the narrator first describes how life is with idle time. Then‚ he later explains some of the behaviors of them. Lastly‚ he uses pitiful words as he compares life of people with
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A Focus on Setting The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868) Part 1 – Lines 1 to 16 From the very first description of the story’s setting‚ the audience is already presented with a comparison of mood to atmosphere. “Our house is high up in the Yorkshire coast” (line 1) is the very opposite of the “low cliffs of the loneliest and ugliest little bay” (line 3-4). This contrast in landscape cleverly demonstrates the characters’ contrast in mood‚ behaviors and mindsets. Although the word high may
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The Writing Style of The Moonstone The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins has a very unique writing style‚ creating an overall effect on the reading experience. In this story‚ Collins decided to write his story by having his characters mark down their own experiences with the Moonstone. The audience is able to read different points of views from varying characters such as Gabriel Betteredge‚ Ezra Jennings‚ Miss Drusilla Clack and a few others. Each written narrative differed in writing style‚ experiences
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Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone is centered on an intricate plot surrounded by a multitude of first person narratives with complex eyewitnesses and truthiness backgrounds. The Moonstone becomes one of the defining novels for the English detective genre‚ but in fact the novel is not solved by the detectives‚ yet rather a scientist‚ Ezra Jennings. Defining characters‚ Seegrave and Sergeant Mr. Cuff are looked at in the novel to recover the incident‚ but because the novel takes many circumstantial views
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Why was slavery popular in the nineteenth century? Just because the rich could afford a slave‚ does not mean it was necessary to have one. In the excerpt‚ the selfish lives of gentlefolk are tantalized. The author utilizes tone‚ point of view and imagery to emphasize the life of the rich. First‚ the narrator uses a satirical tone to create humor about the naïve lives of gentlefolks. The tone is also serious to emphasize the theme of socioeconomic status. One sentence says‚ “You dabbled in nasty
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unsatisfactory‚ people face shame and rejection for deviating from the norm. This becomes further apparent in literature‚ where the authors use their platform to introduce abnormal versions of gender‚ in this case‚ masculinity. In the Moonstone‚ author Wilkie Collins acquaints readers with Ezra Jennings‚ a social outcast. As a sensation novel‚ it uses his role to understand the unfairness when being cold-shouldered by people. His physical deformities and female constitution are obvious to him and
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in the novel‚ The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Ezra Jennings is a good person but he is looked down upon by Victorian society because of his appearance and his background. Even with society frowning down upon him‚ and although he does not have the life that he wants‚ Ezra Jennings proves to be a gentleman who truly values love and friendship. Ezra Jennings is described to have a contradicting appearance‚ as Franklin Blake describes when he sees Ezra for the first time (Collins‚ 330). He is described
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