In what ways were Arthur Conan Doyle and other writers influenced by Wilkie Collins’ storytelling techniques and whip-smart detective Sergeant Cuff? Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887, nearly 20 years after The Moonstone.We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves and to jog on with our duties …” Do you agree? Necessity, which spares our betters, has no pity on us. People in low life have no such privilege. He says, “thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of and your hands something that they must do.” Do you agree? He also writes that “People in high life have … the luxury of indulging their feelings. Betteredge says gentlefolk have it tough because they spend their time searching for something to do.Are you like him? Do you wish you were like him? Rather than being wedded to any one philosophy or belief system, he continually asks questions and searches for the truth. Franklin Blake grew up in many homes and many nations.… I wonder whether the gentlemen who make … a living out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way of their subjects …?” In what ways do we bring ourselves into the stories we tell? Betteredge writes, “I am asked to tell the story of the Diamond, I have been telling the story of my own self.For example, he shares this quote: “Now I saw, though too late, the Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and before we judge rightly of our own Strength to go through with it.” He goes on to share many other quotes, including, “To-day we love what to-morrow we hate” and “Fear of Danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than Danger itself.” Why do you think the author chose Robinson Crusoe and these particular quotes? And do you have any books you revere and quote like this? Gabriel Betteredge seems to use Robinson Crusoe as his bible.
Sarah loves when old books reference other old books.How do you think this schedule affected the way Wilkie Collins structured the book and its chapters? The Moonstone was originally published in 32 weekly parts in Charles Dickens’ magazine All the Year Round.
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