Pros And Cons Narrative Style Of The Woman In White

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Multiple Narrative Style of Wilkie Collins

The Victorian Era of English history is the land of the complexity of social, political, medical, scientific, and philosophical developments. These developments also affect on the English Literature. Wilkie Collins, one of the most successful authors of the Victorian Era, chooses his way through the Gothic Fiction, and known as the first Detective Fiction writer in the English literature, especially with his novel The Moonstone. His is also known with his archetypal sensation novel, The Woman in White. In these two of his novels, he transfers the stories with two different multiple narration styles and the reliability between these two will be compared.

The Victorian literature reflects the works that produced during the reign of Queen Victoria

The story circles around Limmeridge House in Cumberland, within Walter Hartright 's tellings. He is a bit of rich character in terms of characteristics that is constructed to conterveil the reader 's various expectations such as romance, detective genre characteristics, and artistic values with his well rounded character but he uses his own perspectives when it comes to Laura. While Walter goes for the sisters ' art lectures he encounters a young woman dressed in white who is lately learned that escaped from a mental hospital. They have a little conversation with the woman who is wandering about London. He learns about her that she knows Limmeridge and a school friend of Laura Fairlie. In limmeridge, Walter creates bounds with Laura 's elder sister Marian, a pupil. Then he discovers his emotional feelings for Laura. Walter works on the white dressed lady case with Marian then they discover that the lady 's name is Anne Catherick and she