Martinique 18-01-24

Martinique 18-1

Inhoud

- Characters

- Plot

- Thema's + Motieven

- Genre

- POV

 - Literary devices

Characters

- Viscount Abercrombie

- Inspector Kingsley

- Captain Shannon

- Nurse Murray

Plot

WW1 - refusal to serve - prison - kidnapping & fake death - assassination plot - gay?

Thema's + motieven

- World War 1

- Cowardice

- Shell Shock

- War poets

- Homosexuality

Genre + setting

Detective Fiction, Historical Fiction

But why?

- World War One, 1917, as the public are growing more disillusioned about the war.

Point of view

Narrator and Point of View

The point of view is that of Inspector Kingsley who is investigating the murder of a popular poet and soldier Viscount Abercrombie.

Literary devices

- White Feather Symbol

- Shell Shock Symbol

- Detective Work Symbol

- Siegfried Sassoon Allegory

- Hidden Truths Motif

- Foreshadowing

Abercrombie's change of opinion and heart about the war and it's possible outcome foreshadows his murder.

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