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According To Thomas The Moonstone

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Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone centers 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 of the English detective genre, but in fact the novel is not solved by the detectives, yet rather a scientist, Ezra Jennings. The 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 on truthiness the readers are able to recover the lost diamond through forensic science rather than intuition. Seegrave is first seen in the novel after the dinner party to recollect missing pieces from the dinner guests in hopes to recover the …show more content…

According to Thomas “the medical man Jennings puts science to more benign purposes, managing to succeed where the detective and the legal experts fail” (Thomas 68). Unlike Seegrave and Cuff, Jennings character views finding the missing diamond as a science experiment more so than clues of intuition from different eyewitnesses. Jennings professional knowledge of behavior traces him back to the dinner party where his senior assistant, Mr. Candy, was an invited member of the dinner party. Using his experimental theory and experience working with Mr. Candy Jennings is able to narrow down the skepticism of the character’s behaviors at the dinner. Unlike the two previous detectives, Jennings experiments with Franklin Blake’s behavior after the dinner party letting the reader to conclude that opium was an influence that altered his character’s conscience. Without Ezra Jennings character to pick up the pieces left from the previous detectives, the mystery of the diamond would be incomplete and the story would not have any significant importance on the advancements of forensic …show more content…

Therefore analyzing that the opium is a clear representation of causing skepticism within the characters of The Moonstone. Because the fact that Franklin Blake used opium without him being in a state of mind to acknowledge it, this lead the investigation to believe he took the moonstone. This action surprises not only Blake himself, but everyone else as well. The discovery of Blake being drugged at the dinner clearly lines up with Thomas’s article that we cannot limit our suspicions; we must look at ourselves in the most honest way when telling our own stories. Jennings sees this as a clear indication that more should be done in his experiment to truly find who took the moonstone. The forensic science practices identified the body to be Godfrey Ablewhite’s, which completes the investigation piecing all of the points directly at him. This shows a side of his character that was hidden from not only the other characters throughout the book, but the readers as well. Collins, who seems to agree with Thomas when he points out “I may state, at the outset, that Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite’s life had two sides to it” (Collins 448). Collins has an epiphany towards Godfrey’s character, which we all thought to be handsome, lady-loving gentlemen then expose his truthiness to us to see a side of him unfamiliar to all. This twists the plot in the

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