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The Man Who Would Be King
In Rudyard Kipling's novella "The Man Who Would Be King," Dravot and Carnehan behave like the British Empire by trekking about all over India swindling the natives out of money. What's more, after...
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Rudyard Kipling
Late in EM Forster’s novel A Passage to India, Aziz and Cyril Fielding, the rare example of an enlightened Englishman, are riding horses and discussing Aziz’s ordeal while speculating –...
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Rudyard Kipling
In looking at works by Forster and Kipling, there are some critical elements that can be established in terms of exploring how the romance quest defines colonial perceptions of India. One part is...
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The Man Who Would Be King
This unlikely narrative is actually based upon the real-life exploits of the Englishman James Brooke, who became the first white Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo, as well as the travels of the American...
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The Man Who Would Be King
An example of a conflict is the character vs. character conflict between the reporter and the clowns Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot. The narrator is a real reporter, and he meets Carnehan and...
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The Man Who Would Be King
Dravot's goal with his people that he has gained power over is defined after he has taken his position as king. He says, "I'll make a damned fine Nation of you, or I'll die in the making!" Dravot's...
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The Man Who Would Be King
One of the services that Carnehan and Dravot offer Kafiristan is military training so they can “vanquish” their enemies. Dravot seemed to realize that the people in Kafiristan were always...
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The Man Who Would Be King
The plot of the story involves a reporter who meets two men pretending to be reporters who want to become king of some small insignificant country. The narrator is a real reporter, but he comes...
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The Man Who Would Be King
The two "imposters" in this text are Dravot and Peachey, the two men who come to the narrator and tell him their curious tale of how they manage to become rulers of a small country by convincing...
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The Man Who Would Be King
Dravot's fatal mistake, as Peachey is all too keen to point out, is that he wants to take for himself a wife. However, as he finds out, he is a victim of his own success in this regard. He has...
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The Man Who Would Be King
I think that the theme of conquest is of primary importance to the Kipling novella. The idea that Carnehan and Dravot set out to "conquer" a country is a part of this. They do not seek to go to...
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The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling, whose father was a Freemason, became a Freemason and Lodge Secretary in Punjab, India. Freemasonry very much affected Kipling, as he valued its "idea of secret bond, of a sense of...
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The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling's style in "The Man Who Would Be King" echoes the famous method of telling a story from someone else's perspective and "reporting" on it as an objective listener. In his era, it was...
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The Man Who Would Be King
"The Man Who Would Be King" is a famous short story by Rudyard Kipling about two men, Carnehan and Dravot, who try to set themselves up as kings among the native peoples of Afghanistan. While they...
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The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling had a deep passion for India and its heritage and culture, but also held the superiority complex beliefs of Western men of his time. In his view, while Imperialist actions had many...
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The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling's narration in "The Man Who Would Be King" is a reflection of his own beliefs at the time. Since the story is told by the survivor Carnehan, Kipling's unnamed narrator asks...
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The Man Who Would Be King
The actual "man who would be king" of the title can refer to either of the two vagabonds, Peachey Carnehan, or Daniel Dravot, in Rudyard Kipling's story, "The Man Who Would be King", as both of...
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The Man Who Would Be King
Anecdotes from people who experienced travel before and after trains would be good. Statistics about how life eased after the development of trains would also work.
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The Man Who Would Be King
Author Rudyard Kipling never explains how the natives of Kafiristan came to acquire knowledge about Freemasonry in his short story "The Man Who Would Be King." We only know that the Kafirs have a...
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The Man Who Would Be King
It is clear from the way that the narrator acts towards Carnehan and Dravot that these two characters before they set out to be kings are somewhat dubious and shady characters. This is revealed in...