The Moonstone

A Detective’s Perspective: Cuff’s Use of Language Analyzed Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone is widely considered one of the first detective novels. Collins’s character, Sergeant Cuff, is also considered one of the first detective characters and is developed through his use of rhetoric. Cuff makes use of the three rhetorical appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos is used to establish his qualifying traits as a capable detective, logos is used to logically support his position, and pathos is used

Kendra Lynch English 1302 Ms. Olsen 15 March 2011 The Moonstone Wilkie Collins’s famous detective novel, The Moonstone (1868), takes place in the 1840s during the high-Victorian imperialist age, a time in which the British experienced a long period of contentment and prosperity. During this time, a strong sense of anti-feminism seemed to thrive in British society. Despite this fact, Wilkie Collins did not hesitate to make the women in his novel central characters that have a great influence

More even than the stories of Poe or Doyle, the early work that to Eliot served as a model for the genre was “The Moonstone,” by Wilkie Collins, a sprawling melodrama about the theft and recovery of an Indian diamond, which appeared in serial installments in Charles Dickens’s All the Year Round magazine in 1868. In his introduction to the 1928 Oxford World Classics edition

My name is Moonstone, and this is my story. “Spirit, wait up!” I called, racing outside to greet my best friend. She wore purple everyday. Her shirt was purple with yellow flowers and she was wearing black pants, and of course, the blue scarf around her sightless eyes. “Hi.” She said back. I kicked some dust, bored. “Did you clean your necklace like I told you too?” She said. I sighed. “Yes, I did. The black and red almost glows, it’s so clean.” Spirit smiled, and held out hers, it was a swirl

between genders is presented in any two texts studied this term Harold Pinter and Wilkie Collins both appear to realistically demonstrate the relationship between genders through the works of literature. Within their pieces, The Birthday Party & The Moonstone, the novelist and playwright are successfully able to mirror the way in which the interaction between the sexes have developed over time, I feel especially from a woman 's point of view. This essay introduces the argument that these readings have

Britta closed her eyes and touched the crescent moonstone of her necklace. The usual disorientation when entering a memory enveloped her but quickly faded. She opened her eyes, and her surroundings appeared as they had before. But now she was alone. At first, doubt clouded her thoughts. In the few times has used the necklace with Gall’s supervision, she discovered that the memory world using it seemed more vivid and crisp than when using her innate abilities. But not by much. How different would

William Wilkie Collins was a famous and powerful novelist in the 19th century. Collins’ The Moonstone is said to be the adoptive parent of the great English detective genre. TS Eliot, claiming that the genre was "invented by Collins and not by Poe", declared it to be "the first, the longest and the best of modern English detective novel”(Ronald 179). Collins’ childhood and adulthood influenced the novel, The Moonstone. Collins was born to the notable landscape artist, William Collins. At a youthful age

Shelton Hawkins Jr. English 3 Pd. 5 Mrs. Ermanni 12 May 2017 Moonstone In mostly all of the 19th century the social ranking of an individual is what set them apart from others. An example of something that would show a high social rank would be one’s jewelry. Back in the Victorian age the most precious thing an individual could have was jewelry. John Plotz says, “On the one hand, through jewelry one establishes a sense of personal worth and identity. On the other hand, jewelry’s very elegance lies

detective stories, The Moonstone. Within this text, he explores and transcends his writing style, as he created an atmosphere full of suspense and gothic tradition by making use of two genres famous in the Victorian Era (Ayton, 2). As Collins managed to challenge the roles of men and women within The Moonstone, he ultimately attempts to reverse genders by creating a story of conflict, where the women are essentially in charge. As many gender stereotypes are expressed within The Moonstone through the different

Question One: At the beginning of the semester I wrote in my personal information handout that I felt what made the mystery genre stand apart from all other genres was its ability to keep the reader/watcher on the edge of their seat wanting more information. That mysteries are unpredictable, making the reader/watcher stay until the end because they must know the ending. I still feel this way, but my understanding of this concept has certainly evolved and sharpened. First and foremost, the concept