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Hmm. I read the play The Frozen Deep earlier this year. It's a drama penned by noted Victorian novelists Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens that is centered around a failed Arctic expedition. So it's brief (because it's a play) and free because its public domain. Also, Collins later wrote a novella based on the play (which I have not read). After reports from Inuit witnesses in 1854 that members of the failed Franklin expedition (departed 1845) resorted to cannibalism, England as a whole apparently reacted in angry, stiff-upper-lip disbelief that its countrymen would ever partake in such ghastly, unchristian behavior. Dickens was motivated to write the play as a response. (He also lashed out in a pique of racism against the Inuit character, writing: "We believe every savage in his heart covetous, treacherous, and cruel: and we have yet to learn what knowledge the white man—lost, houseless, shipless, apparently forgotten by his race, plainly famine-stricken, weak, frozen and dying—has of the gentleness of Exquimaux nature." So, uh, there's that.) So it's a play in some measure illustrating how England wanted to believe its citizens would react upon finding themselves trapped and starving in a failed arctic expedition... Pip pip! Wizchine fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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