Make a stylistic analysis of 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins Raximov Samariddin group 14

Make a stylistic analysis of 'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins

Raximov Samariddin group 3.14

Wilkie Collins's 'The Woman in White' is an early example of a detective novel. Review an introduction and summary to the novel, explore narratives from Walter Hartright, Mr. Gilmore, and Marian Halcombe; then analyze the novel's central themes.

Introducing the Novel

The Woman in White, published in 1860, is one of the earliest and most-beloved mystery novels, but at the time, critics were not exactly so positive. Novelist and critic Edward Bulwer-Lytton, for example, called the novel 'great trash.'

On the other hand, the public loved the mystery and intrigue behind the identity of the mysterious Woman in White and anxiously waited to read the continuation of the story each week as a new chapter showed up in the weekly publication All the Year Round. The story still intrigues people; it was turned into a PBS Mystery! presentation and an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in the last 15 years

Summary of the Novel

The novel is split not only by chapters but also by narrators. Different narrators share only the parts of the story that they actually witnessed, making the book much like a written version of court testimony.

Walter Hartright's Narrative

The first narrator is Walter Hartright, who is in need of work in the autumn and is offered an opportunity to tutor two women in drawing by his Italian friend Pesca. Before he is to leave for Limmeridge House, where the women live, he meets a mysterious, frightened Woman in White while on a midnight walk. After helping her get to a carriage, an officer comes by and reveals that the woman escaped from a nearby mental asylum