Tag Archives: The Moonstone
Mr. Murthwaite and the Narratorial Ambiguity of Indian Society
First an aside: I apologize for the tardiness of my post, I’ve no reasonable excuse for its lateness but my ineptitude for to pull myself away from mixing drums and rather focus on adhering to deadlines! In the third chapter of the … Continue reading
Society and the characters through Mr. Bruff’s eyes
Mr. Bruff, especially after dealing with Betteredge and Clack, is refreshingly everything we could want in a narrator. He doesn’t start with any irrelevant quotes or spend pages talking about how it is his reluctant duty to write all this … Continue reading
Reversing Traditional Gender Roles
After Miss Clack’s lengthy moralizing and over the top narration, it is a relief to hear from the more rationally minded Mr. Blake. The contrast between these narrators particularly becomes clear when Mr. Blake confronts Rachel about her seemingly ill-founded … Continue reading
Subjective Narrators Mean Objective Reader
After having read the novel as narrated by two different people, I have come to the conclusion that the purpose of the narrators is in fact to allow the reader to view the story objectively through the subjective lens of … Continue reading
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The “respectable English friend”: A Closer Look at the Clues
As we hear Miss Clack describe the “facts as they were stated” (204) to her regarding the attacks on Godfrey Ablewhite and Septimus Luker, I could not help but wonder who this “respectable English friend” is that abets the three … Continue reading