The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes
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The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes is a dark, surreal short story by Rudyard Kipling about a British engineer who becomes trapped in a nightmarish sand-pit village of the living dead.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
horror fiction
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short story ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | Rudyard Kipling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
colonial anxiety
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death and the living dead ⓘ entrapment ⓘ loss of control ⓘ madness ⓘ social exclusion ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | British India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts |
a closed, inescapable community
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psychological breakdown of the protagonist ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Gunga Dass
NERFINISHED
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Morrowbie Jukes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dark fiction
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psychological horror ⓘ surreal fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasMoralOrMessage |
critiques social hierarchies and abandonment
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questions the stability of civilized identity ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Morrowbie Jukes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | collections of Rudyard Kipling’s short stories ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | late Victorian literature ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | classic of Kipling’s early weird tales ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | first-person ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1885 ⓘ |
| periodOfPublication | 19th century ⓘ |
| plotElement |
impossibility of escape from the pit
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protagonist trapped in a sand-pit village ⓘ village inhabited by people believed to be dead ⓘ |
| protagonist | Morrowbie Jukes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | British India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | British colonial era in India ⓘ |
| tone |
macabre
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nightmarish ⓘ surreal ⓘ |
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