The Woman in White
So far?
Well, there's this woman who wears only white. She's from an insane asylum, and she's not insane. This evil baronet holds her there against her will. Well, he did. Then she escaped.
The Woman in White has a look-alike. And the same evil baronet is betrothed to her (the look-alike).
And the main character (drawing-master) has fallen in love with the aforesaid look-alike.
(Why don't I just use the real names?)
Of course we all know that the drawing master will marry the girl in the end. Of course. All books go like that, especially if Wilkie Collins wrote them.
But now the question arises:
~what motivation does the evil baronet have for doing all his evil deeds?~
and
~what will befall the Woman in White? What is her significance?~
And that we will discover presently, as soon as the drawing master gets his act together. :)
Also, this is for Daisy Baggins: I DO know what "The Moonstone" is about, because I DID try to read it once, and it IS by Wilkie Collins (just like what I'm reading now). And that's why I said it looked familiar.
The only problem being: Daisy doesn't read this blog.
Now. About Wilkie Collins:
He has an engaging and colorful style, a cut below Dickens. Nevertheless, he manages to write brilliant passages here and there.
His women are either nice, brain-using women, or they are victims, or they are overemotional wilting pansies. But there are women in his stories, and more often than not, one of them helps solve the puzzle.
And his choice of names. Sometimes perfect, sometimes ridiculous, always wierd. (For instance, in one of his short stories, there is a young doctor by the name of Launcelot Linzie.)
X-/
Other names of interest? Well, from the book I'm reading now, there's...
Anne Catherick
Marian Halcombe
Laura Fairlie
Sir Percival Glyde
Walter Hartright
Collins writes thriller novels. Which means he occasionally borrows from the world of the supernatural or (especially in this novel) pathological fear.
I've read The Frozen Deep, which was the inspiration for Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. It's a short story. . .but not necessarily worth the read. The main girl (I think her name was Clara) had some prophetic power where she would go into trances and see the future. And that was a little too wierd for me, even though the rest of the story is cold and sad and dramatic and all that.
:)
Well, there's this woman who wears only white. She's from an insane asylum, and she's not insane. This evil baronet holds her there against her will. Well, he did. Then she escaped.
The Woman in White has a look-alike. And the same evil baronet is betrothed to her (the look-alike).
And the main character (drawing-master) has fallen in love with the aforesaid look-alike.
(Why don't I just use the real names?)
Of course we all know that the drawing master will marry the girl in the end. Of course. All books go like that, especially if Wilkie Collins wrote them.
But now the question arises:
~what motivation does the evil baronet have for doing all his evil deeds?~
and
~what will befall the Woman in White? What is her significance?~
And that we will discover presently, as soon as the drawing master gets his act together. :)
Also, this is for Daisy Baggins: I DO know what "The Moonstone" is about, because I DID try to read it once, and it IS by Wilkie Collins (just like what I'm reading now). And that's why I said it looked familiar.
The only problem being: Daisy doesn't read this blog.
Now. About Wilkie Collins:
He has an engaging and colorful style, a cut below Dickens. Nevertheless, he manages to write brilliant passages here and there.
His women are either nice, brain-using women, or they are victims, or they are overemotional wilting pansies. But there are women in his stories, and more often than not, one of them helps solve the puzzle.
And his choice of names. Sometimes perfect, sometimes ridiculous, always wierd. (For instance, in one of his short stories, there is a young doctor by the name of Launcelot Linzie.)
X-/
Other names of interest? Well, from the book I'm reading now, there's...
Anne Catherick
Marian Halcombe
Laura Fairlie
Sir Percival Glyde
Walter Hartright
Collins writes thriller novels. Which means he occasionally borrows from the world of the supernatural or (especially in this novel) pathological fear.
I've read The Frozen Deep, which was the inspiration for Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. It's a short story. . .but not necessarily worth the read. The main girl (I think her name was Clara) had some prophetic power where she would go into trances and see the future. And that was a little too wierd for me, even though the rest of the story is cold and sad and dramatic and all that.
:)
posted by Unknown at 12:35 PM
5 Comments:
I'm very glad the Woman in White wears white!If she didn't I would think the author was color-blind
Did you finish it?
The woman in white sounds interesting.
Either I know something you don't know...or I know something you don't know...or I'm clueless.
One of those is VERY likely.
Duh, Mari.
:-)
That was on purpose.
Is "The Woman in White" as bad as "The Scottish Chiefs"? It sounds as though Wilkie Collins at least has a few decent character. But methinks he spends too much time reading Arthurian legends... :)
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