Rudyard Kipling: Difference between revisions

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''Now all my lies are proved untrue''

''And I must face the men I slew.''

''[[Heel Realization|What tale shall serve me here among]]''~~ ~~

''[[Heel Realization|What tale shall serve me here among''

''~~[[Heel Realization|~~Mine angry and defrauded young?]]'' }}

''Mine angry and defrauded young?]]'' }}

* [[Culture Clash]]: Several of his short stories are jokes about this.

* [[Defictionalization]]: Some of the dialect of [[Brits With Battleships|the British Army]] was actually made up by Kipling. Originally it was a device to give the atmosphere of how soldiers talked without using the words [[Moral Guardians|soldiers actually used]]. In [[World War I]] a lot of boys entered the army brought up on Kipling and imported the dialect they thought was "soldierly".

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* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]

* [[Elephants Child]]

* [[Exact Words]]: Both "A Smuggler's Song" and "The Shut-Eye Sentry" are about people being warned to look the other way at certain moments, so they'll be able to [[From a Certain Point of View|truthfully]] say afterwards that they didn't ''see'' any sign of wrongdoing.

* [[Exact Words]]: Both "A Smuggler's Song" and "The Shut-Eye Sentry" are about people being warned to look the other way at certain moments, so they'll be able to [[From a Certain Point of View|truthfully]] say afterwards that they didn't '''''see''''' any sign of wrongdoing.

* [[Framing Device]]: Kipling makes extensive and careful use of framing devices in his short stories and narrative verse, sometimes doubly framing stories (a story within a story within a story).

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]

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* [[Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be]]: <s>Mocked</s> Discussed in ''The King''.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Kipling poured over these enough of acid to dissolve a battleship or two. From ''Pagett, M.P.'' to ''Mesopotamia'' and ''Stellenbosh'' to ''The Lesson'':

{{quote|[[Second Boer War|We have spent two hundred million pounds]] to prove the fact once more,~~ ~~

{{quote|[[Second Boer War|We have spent two hundred million pounds]] to prove the fact once more,

[[Hit and Run Tactics|That horses are quicker than men afoot]], since two and two make four;~~ ~~

[[Hit and Run Tactics|That horses are quicker than men afoot]], since two and two make four;

And horses have four legs, and men have two legs, and two into four goes twice,~~ ~~

And horses have four legs, and men have two legs, and two into four goes twice,

And nothing over except our lesson--and very cheap at the price. }}

{{quote|[[World War I|They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young]],

The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave:

But the men who [[We Have Reserves|left them thriftily to die in their own dung]],

Shall they come with years and honour to the grave?}}

* [[Not So Different]]: Zig-zagged. Sometimes he described Europeans as just another tribe, sometimes as superior. Perhaps the summation was that he in fact thought Europeans ''were'' another tribe (and thus shouldn't make too much heavy weather) but that, by chance they happened to be a tribe that had a lot to teach other tribes.

** Also Kipling was a good character writer and had a great fascination for how other people lived. His characters seem like real people that happen to be following the customs of their respective tribe/caste/whatever and not merely extensions of stereotypes.

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{{quote|He spoke of the heat of India as the "Asian Solar Myth";

Came on a four months' visit, to "study the East," in November,

[[Cool and Unusual Punishment|And I got him to sign an agreement vowing to stay till September.]]~~ ~~

[[Cool and Unusual Punishment|And I got him to sign an agreement vowing to stay till September.]]

...[The summer temperature hits one hundred twenty] That was an end of the business. Pagett, the perjured, fled~~ ~~

...[The summer temperature hits one hundred twenty] That was an end of the business. Pagett, the perjured, fled

With a practical, working knowledge of "Solar Myths" in his head. }}

* [[Trickster]]: Several, including ''Stalky'' (''Stalky'' in Land & Sea Tales, ''Stalky & Co.'', ''A Deal in Cotton'' in Actions and Reactions, ''The Honours of War'' in A Diversity of Creatures), who fought anything unpleasant in [[Boarding School]] with tricks and little provocations. And won.