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1、浅谈月亮宝石解析英国侦探小说Remarks on The MoonstoneInterpretation of English Detective NovelsContentsAbstract.1Key words.1I. Introduction.2II. Literary Background.2III. Brief Analysis of The Moonstone.4 1. The suspense and mystery.4 2. Story plot and characters.4 3. Main characters.6IV. Analysis of Detective Nov

2、els. 71. English detective and popular literature72. Literary significance and criticism7V. Conclusion.9References.10Remarks on The MoonstoneInterpretation of English Detective Novels Abstract: The authors writing is covered with great accuracy, increasingly vivid stories. He works in most mysteriou

3、s and unpredictable circumstances, and then by a sharp stroke, spinal structured, comes the mystery. Till the end the readers have to read through, in order to understand the whole truth. Popular literature is the integration of western detective fiction genre, and gothic novels, crime novels they a

4、re derived from the spy novel, the police novels, and suspense novels of mystery novels are risky areas. Detective novels with astonishing main reasoning, judgment intellectual figures, based on a series of clues. With its structure, plot, characters and even the environment of their setup and progr

5、amming, it is a kind of program literature.Key words: popular literature; detective fiction; Moonstone; mysterious; plot摘要：作者写小说喜欢采用各个不同的人物分头从各个不同角度叙述同一故事这一手法，写得面面俱到，丝丝入扣，使故事益发生动。他作品的情节多半神秘莫测，然后，再以犀利的笔锋，层次分明的一一剖解，拨开疑云。读者只有读到终卷，才能了解全部真相。侦探小说是通俗文学的一种体裁,与哥特式小说,犯罪小说以及由它们衍生出的间谍小说、警察小说、悬疑小说同属惊险神秘小说的范畴。侦探小

6、说主要写具有惊人推理、判断智力的人物，根据一系列的线索，破解犯罪疑案。它的情节、结构、人物甚至环境都有一定的格局和程式，因此也是一种程式文学。关键词：通俗文学；侦探小说；月亮宝石；神秘；情节I. Introduction Collins made The Moonstone the masterpiece in the history of detective fiction. Mining delivered more profound novels, which exposed the Al-Quads British aggression against heinous crimes c

7、ommitted by the British army in India. The western invaders burned, destroyed monuments. 19th century profoundly revealed British upper strata of society in a reflection of the bandwagon effect, exposed the hypocrisy of religion, and the truth had a charitable cause-condemnation of the crimes of agg

8、ressors. The Moonstone has made a breakthrough in the art of progress. First, the images of the characters are successfully molded, lifelike, as both its portrait and its psychological perspective are well understood in very place. Second, through the exquisite use of narrative technique, the author

9、 skillfully puts law, professional knowledge into practice in the areas of sociology and psychology to help track, indirect, complex narratives, including letters and diaries and records to raise questions and create real atmosphere.One source of the power of Wilkie Collinss The Moonstone (1868), li

10、ke the diamond at its heart, is the complex range of interpretations the novel inspires. If the diamond stands, alternatively, as a sign of religious devotion, imperial plunder, colonial revenge, capitalist desire, personal vengeance, sexual experience or psychological integration, the novel equally

11、 invites an array of interpretations: it is an orient list romance, a critique of imperialism, an inheritance plot, an allegory of seduction and, as was most famously claimed by T. S. Eliot, the first and the greatest modern English detective novels. Regardless of the myriad interpretative meanings

12、the novel offers, however, its narrative force and logic are clear: The Moonstone is an elaborate act of historical detection and reconstruction. By way of an intricate collective narrative performed by a series of individuals who explicitly present their case like witnesses in a trial, this novel d

13、ramatizes a sustained effort to recover a lost incident, connecting contemporary circumstances with historical origins, and assembling a chain of evidence that will link the present to the past by explaining the truth about a mysterious sequence of events (Admuff 1998). In its complex narrative and

14、in the unfolding of its even more complicated plot, The Moonstone did in fact become the prototypical English detective novel. II. Literary BackgroundIn 1842 the American writer Edgar Allan Poe published the People Street Homicide; this novel is full of suspense. Finally the animal murderer actually

15、, it seems to cheat, but also demonstrating the artistic style of Edgar Allan Poe. The first murder scene was written, and full of mystery and terror. 其后爱伦坡又先后写了4部侦探短篇：玛丽罗杰神秘案件（1842年）、金甲虫（1843年）、你就是杀人凶手（1844年）、被盗窃的信（1845年）。Poe also subsequently wrote four short detective novels: Mary Rogers Mysterio

16、us Case (1842). Golden Bug (1843), You are murderers (1844). The letter Was Stolen, (1845). 这5部小说创造了5种推理小说模式。These five novels created a five detective story mode. 爱伦 坡也被称为“侦探小说的鼻祖。Poe has been called the originator of detective novels. 他深受西方资产阶级颓废派的影响,提倡为艺术而艺术,小说情节古怪离奇,充满恐怖气氛.He felt the influence

17、of Western bourgeois decadence advocate for the arts and the art of fiction strange, bizarre circumstances, with an atmosphere of terror (Jiang yongcheng 2006). 继爱伦坡之后,英国的历史又出现了一位侦探小说家威廉威尔基柯林斯.Following Poe, there was a history of the British detective novelist William Wendell Collins.柯林斯（18241889年）

18、生于伦敦, 月亮宝石是柯林斯侦探小说的代表作。Collins (1824-1889) was born in London. He was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 nov

19、els, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This companion offers a fascinating overview of Collinss writing. In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex relation to contemporary cultural

20、 movements and debates. Collinss exploration of the tensions, which lay beneath Victorian society, is analyzed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and guide to further reading are provided, making this book an indispensable guide for all those interested in Collins and his work.Th

21、e Moonstone, Collins detective fiction masterpiece. 它描绘了19世纪英国资产阶级上流社会的世态炎凉，暴露了宗教的虚伪，揭露了慈善事业的真相，并谴责了英国侵略军在印度犯下的罪行。It depicts the 19th century English bourgeoisie upper strata of society in a reflection of the bandwagon effect, exposes the hypocrisy of religion, tells the truth about the charitable c

22、ause, and condemns the crimes committed by the British army of aggression in India. 这部侦探小说成功塑造了克夫探长的生动形象：通过对月亮宝石案件的侦破，充分显示了侦探艺术的精娴以及他料事如神的本领。Detector Cuff shaping the success of this detective story: a vivid image of the moon stones cases detected fully demonstrated the spirit of artistic mastery, a

23、nd he indeed predict like detective skills. 书中其他人物也栩栩如生，如雷茜儿的闺秀气度、罗琳娜的痴迷、克莱克的伪善、西格雷夫愚昧昏庸，都入木三分。Other figures in the book are superbly, Miss Rachel abuse magnanimity Carolina addicts, Lake hypocritical, Seagrave stupid, penetrating.读完全书，读者无不称克夫探长为自己心目中的英雄。柯林斯在1854年结识了当时英国文豪狄更斯，毫无疑问，他创作侦探小说是受到狄更斯的影响，但

24、他比狄更斯早两年写出了侦探小说月亮宝石。Collins in 1854 became acquainted with the British novelist Charles Dickens, no doubt He created the detective novels by Dickens, but Dickens than two years ago, and he wrote a detective novel The Moonstone. 从发表侦探小说的顺序而言，柯林斯的侦探小说也启发了狄更斯，狄更斯在月亮宝石出版的后两年（1870年），才发表了艾德鲁特鲁德案件。The orde

25、r from the published detective novels, it has inspired Collins detective novels by Charles Dickens. In the two years after the publication of The Moonstone (1870). Dickens only published the Adieu Trudy case (Sun Jian 2005).III. Brief Analysis of The Moonstone1. The suspense and mysteryThe author us

26、ed a different description of the different characters in different stories. The story is full of suspense and mystery. Intricate plot of the piece, the odd, so readers doubt. The author also through detector Cuff reveals the mystery, so mysterious and unpredictable is the case of gradual revelation

27、 of the truth. Always with a fascinating story around the corner, he likes to write fiction various figures separately from every different angle; the story is described the same way. His writing is covered with great accuracy, increasingly vivid stories. He works in most mysterious and unpredictabl

28、e circumstances, and then by a sharp stroke, spinal structured, comes the mystery. Till the end the readers have to read through, in order to understand the whole truth.2. Plot summary The Moonstone is a magnificent yellow diamond “large as a plovers egg”. Colonel John Herncastle, who seized it from

29、 the forehead of a Hindu god, looted it at the siege of Seringapatam in southern India in 1799. On his return to England he was ostracised by his family and society, and in revenge for a slight he leaves the diamond, said to carry a curse, to his niece Rachel Verinder. Rachels cousin, Franklin Blake

30、, is to deliver the diamond to the Verinder house near Frizinghall on the Yorkshire coast. The Moonstone is presented to Rachel at a dinner party for her eighteenth birthday. The guests include Godfrey Ablewhite, another cousin; Mr Candy, the family doctor; Mr Murthwaite, a celebrated traveller in I

31、ndia; and Drusilla Clack, an interfering evangelist. The party goes badly. Rachel and Franklin Blake have become fond of each other while decorating her sitting room door and Rachel had earlier refused a marriage proposal from Ablewhite. In addition, Blake quarrels with Mr Candy about the competence

32、 of doctors. Blake had been followed in London and Murthwaite identifies three Indians seen near the house as high caste Brahmins. Rachel places the diamond in her bedroom cabinet but the next morning it is missing. The local police superintendent, Seegrave, is a bungling incompetent so Blake calls

33、in the celebrated Sergeant Cuff of the detective police. He rules out the suspicious Indians but realises the importance of smeared paint on Rachels sitting room door. The smear has been made by an article of dress, whose owner is almost certainly the thief. Rachel behaves inexplicably, obstructing

34、the investigation and refusing to have anything more to do with Franklin Blake. Cuff concludes that she has stolen her own diamond assisted by Rosanna Spearman, a deformed housemaid fascinated by the local quicksand. Rosanna is a reformed thief who is acquainted with a dubious London moneylender, Se

35、ptimus Luker. She is also in love with Franklin Blake and after acting strangely drowns herself in the Shivering Sand. Cuff is dismissed from the case by Lady Verinder but correctly predicts future developments. In London, both Ablewhite and Luker are attacked and searched, Luker losing a receipt fo

36、r a great valuable. Lady Verinder dies of a heart condition and Rachel reluctantly agrees to marry Ablewhite whose father has become her guardian. They move to Brighton where they are visited by Mr Bruff, the family solicitor. The engagement is broken off when he reveals that Ablewhite is in debt an

37、d is marrying Rachel for her money. Blake returns from travels abroad but Rachel refuses to see him. Determined to restore her good opinion, he revisits Yorkshire where Rosanna Spearmans only friend, Limping Lucy, gives him a letter from the dead housemaid. This leads him to the Shivering Sand where

38、 Rosanna has hidden his nightgown, smeared with paint, with a confession that she concealed the nightgown and killed herself out of love. The confused Blake returns to London and contrives a meeting with Rachel at Mr Bruffs house in Hampstead. There she tells him that she knows he had financial prob

39、lems and with her own eyes saw him take the diamond. Her actions have been to protect his reputation. Blake meets Mr Candys assistant, Ezra Jennings, who saved Candys life from a fever caught after the birthday dinner. Jennings had recorded Candys delirium, which revealed that Candy had secretly giv

40、en Blake opium to prove his point in their argument. Blake therefore unknowingly stole the diamond under the influence of the drug, in order to keep it safe. Jennings explains to Blake that if he takes opium again under similar conditions he may repeat his actions of the previous year and reveal whe

41、re he placed the diamond. Blake agrees and the experiment is conducted with Mr Bruff as an observer. Blake takes a substitute gem but fails to reveal the Moonstones hiding place. Rachel, really in love with him, is also present and has already forgiven him. Bruff in the meantime has Lukers bank watc

42、hed. The moneylender is observed passing the diamond to a sailor who is followed to a dockside inn. Later the same night he is murdered. Cuff, brought out of retirement by Blake, discovers that the sailor is Godfrey Ablewhite in disguise. He was the real thief and stole the gem to save himself from

43、financial ruin. He has been killed by the Indians who have now recovered the diamond. In a religious ceremony witnessed in India by Murthwaite, the Brahmins return the diamond to the god of the moon. (Wickie.Collins 1995:374)3. Main charactersThe author uses detector Cuffs hands to reveal the myster

44、y and so mysterious and unpredictable is the case of gradual revelation of the truth. Not only shall ups and downs, but also a large number of life-size figures in typical shape.Franklin Blake, cousin to Rachel Verinder and the person she is suspected to have fallen in love with. He is intelligent,

45、having been educated abroad, and is described by other characters in the book as having different personalities depending on whether his French, German, English or Italian sides were uppermost.Rachel Verinder, she is a well-educated, well brought up young woman preparing herself for marriage. All th

46、e more reason, then, that her sudden personality changes once the diamond has been stolen are out of character. She has violent mood swings and changes from a likeable, easy-going young woman to a selfish annoying brat. Godfrey Ablewhite, also cousin to Rachel Verinder and seemingly in love with her

47、. He is known as a good sort, spending a lot of his time doing good deeds and charitable work. He comes from a good home; although his mother, Lady Verinders sister, married below herself. Godfrey is considered to be a nice young man, but there is something slightly creepy about him.Sergeant Cuff, t

48、he famous detective brought in to solve the crime. Lean and ugly, he scares a number of people in the household with his tough questions. He has a touch of the Sherlock Holmes about him - he sneaks around and acts oddly - all for very good reasons that are totally unclear to everyone else. However, despite his suspicions, he struggles