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The Woman In White - plot and characters.
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WILKIE COLLINS. PLOT AND CHARACTERS IN THE WOMAN IN WHITE A/ THE PLOT OF THE NOVEL a) A central intrigue of great simplicity By the middle of the Nineteenth Century, works of fiction tended to fulfil the taste of the British novel reader who liked to be amused or surprised. Collins, like Dickens, wrote for the common man and not for the literary critic. He wanted to gain the largest number of readers by writing a story of his own times. With this in mind, The Woman in White was written to fulfil the Mid-Victorian passion for crime and mystery. The preamble sets the genre of the novel. Witnesses are to present the truth in a case as it is generally done in a Court of Justice, "in its most direct and most intelligible aspect" (33). The crime of substituting one person for another, drawn from a French...
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