Wilkie Collins Essay Examples

Looking further into the aspects of Gothic Horror, three short stories, `The Black Cottage’ by Wilkie Collins, `The Old Nurse’s Story’, by Elizabeth Gaskell, and `The Black Veil’ by Charles Dickens were written to suit Victorian tastes, containing morals that still make readers think about life. The writers make different choices and decisions about the […]

‘A Terribly Strange Bed’ and ‘The Landlady’ are both stories based on suspense and fear. ‘A Terribly Strange Bed’- written in 1856 by Wilkie Collins, is set in Paris and involves an attempted murder at a gambling house, it is written in first person narration. ‘The Landlady’- written in 1960 by Roald Dahl, is set […]

The two stories, “The Landlady”-Roald Dahl and “A teribly strange bed”-Wilkie Collins, are both very similar in terms of genre, central characters and events. The genre in both stories is suspence but also, more so in “The Landlady”, an air of mystery. The central characters are both in a ‘foreign’ city and are provoked to […]

Throughout this year, I have read multiple stories and in this essay, I will compare two of them. Specifically, I will analyze the theme, content, characters, similarities, and differences between The Landlady by Roald Dahl and The Terribly Strange Bed by Willie Collins. Both stories captivated me in their own unique ways. The first story […]

This essay examines how Wilkie Collins delves into the character of Count Fosco in The Women in White, focusing on the writer’s narrative craft and appeal to the reader, as well as the writer’s use of language for emotive effect. Initially, the essay explores Collins’ background, the main themes of the novel, and Fosco’s role. […]