Rachel and Franklin Dispute

In these photos it demonstrates the tension between Rachel and Franklin. Harper’s Weekly uses the image of Rachel throwing herself in front of Franklin Blake to heighten the exchange between them causing the reader to believe that it is very passionate and dramatic. The same type of reading does not come across in All The Year Round. Leighton and Surridge argue “[t]he illustrated chapter initials undermine narrative linearity even more, being often less tied to plot events, and more to iterative, extradiegetic, or intertextual effects.” (Leighton and Surridge 210), this ties in the photos on these pages as neither illustration display the relevance to the plot, but rather encourage the reader to think about Rachel as she is seen illustrated at the very beginning of the page. With illustrations of Rachel appearing so frequently throughout the publication it is easy to see that no matter who is narrating the story the reader should always have Rachel in mind.

Collins, Wilkie “Chapter VIII” The Moonstone. Oxford University Press, 2008. pp 351- 364. Print.  

Leighton, Mary Elizabeth and Lisa Surridge. "The Transatlantic Moonstone: A Study of the Illustrated Serial   in Harper's Weekly." Victorian Periodicals Review, vol. 42 no. 3, 2009, p. 207-243. Project                  MUSE, doi:10.1353/vpr.0.0083.