Colonialism and Morality in The Moonstone and The Man Who Would Be King

Colonialism and Morality in The Moonstone and The Man Who Would Be KingLet us suppose to begin with that the cursed jewel is an impossibility and the powers of the Moonstone or any other gem for that matter only exist on an atomic level ( i.e. the energies which maintain such target areas together and make them what they are). Additionally it should be considered that no such intent is the means by which a being exerts powers and no such object consciously exerts powers itself. Notions of the cursed or powerful jewel can be seen as a bi-product of what Said terms Orientalism. Said describes The Orient as close to a European invention, a place of exotic beings and remarkable experiences. (Ashcroft et al ed. p.87) This hypothesis adequately compliments Wilkie Collins characterisation of the eponymous jewel in The Moonstone and the moral pattern the author forms around its adventures.In the Nineteenth Century the jewel was the ultimate exotic object, Collins describes the Moonstone as a yellow diamond- a famous gem in the native annals of India, (Collins p.33) and clearly credits influence to the Koh-i-Noor in his preface to the novel. Collins builds upon the alien nature of such an object utilising the perceived mysticism of the Orient linking the jewel to a four handed Indian God (Collins p.33) Saids exotic being ? and superstition, the notion of the jewel face the influence of the deity who adorned it (Collins p.33) remarkable experiences to Said?. Collins rapidly develops the exotic object into the cursed object primarily to create a hanker involving floor with a successfully satisfying denouement. the novel is, of course foremost a detective story how memorable or lengthy a tale would it have been if the... ...----------------------------------------------Controlling of persons. Tolerated Peachy Carnahan (book).(Pseudo-looting in Imperialism.name of the crown?) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Innocent appreciation Good Imperialism. Franklin Blake, Rachel Verrinder, Mr of native culture. Murthwaite, Narrator of The Man Who Would Be King (Kipling?)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BibliographyCollins, Wilkie The Moonstone capital of the United Kingdom Penguin 1966Kipling, Rudyard The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories London Granada 1975The Post-Colonial Studies Reader e. Ashcroft, Griffith, Tiffin, London Routledge 1995The Man Who Would Be King dir. John Huston 1975