Title Page of Chapter's VIII and IX of "The Moonstone" [image]

Title

Title Page of Chapter's VIII and IX of "The Moonstone" [image]

Description

This image is the title page of Chapter’s Eight and Nine of the Moonstone in the Publication Harper’s Weekly. Harper’s is able to compare and contrast different cultures using dark and light images. The foreign culture is represented as three Indian men lurking in the darkness with dark, unrecognizable faces. The dark represents two things. The first is the unknown motivation of the characters. The dark conceals their faces hiding their intentions. Secondly, the dark or darkness is generally represented alongside the concepts of the unknown and the evil. The represented characters motivations are hidden from the reader and by using dark shading around the character’s faces and landscape, it portrays the characters and their actions as abnormal. Harper’s is able to influence the reader’s conception of Indian’s in a negative context by aligning them with the dark and unknown.
When the image of the three Indian men is compared with the other two images on the page, the reader can see a contrast between the images. The Indians are dark, foreboding and unknown while Rachel Verinder, Franklin Blake (top right image) and Rosanna Spearmen (bottom center image) are clearly portrayed. Harper’s highlight’s the norm as something that can be perceived and understood by using images of the male and female English White body. The Indian’s are unknown and portrayed as people who are not like the norm making them Culturally Disabled.

Creator

Source

Archive and Special Collections

Publisher

Calgary: University of Calgary

Date

Contributor

Chassels, Cody

Rights

http://library.ucalgary.ca/copyright/images

Language

English

Type

Image

Original Format

Print Publication

Files

cody_00007.tif

Citation

Harper's Weekly, “Title Page of Chapter's VIII and IX of "The Moonstone" [image],” University of Calgary Class Projects, accessed November 7, 2024, https://test.omeka.ucalgary.ca/document/130.