Rufus Dawes/Richard Devine never finds this out. Additionally, Sir Richard returns home and dies straight away, possibly of a heart-attack, without altering his will. The police come and lock up Richard, who now gives his name as Rufus Dawes (which is used for the remainder of the book), for the murder of Lord Bellasis. When Richard leaves, he comes across a murder scene: his biological father, Lord Bellasis has been murdered, and Richard witnesses Sir Richard walking away from the scene of the crime. He leaves him to pack for a while, claiming that he will fetch his lawyer to alter his will so that Richard receives no inheritance. Sir Richard proceeds to threaten the mother's reputation if Richard does not leave and never come back.
In an incident of domestic violence, Richard's mother reveals to Sir Richard that his son was fathered by another man, Lord Bellasis. The story starts with a prologue, telling the tale of young British aristocrat Richard Devine, who is the son of a shipbuilding magnate, Sir Richard Devine.
Under the prevailing morality of the time, a murderer would have been inappropriate for a hero in popular fiction. Typically of Victorian-era convict novels, Rufus Dawes is a wrongfully convicted gentleman. Most of the incidents and many of the individual characters are easily identifiable from historical sources including Marcus Clarke's own non-fiction work Old Tales of a Young Country.
#Natural life series#
Structurally, For the Term of His Natural Life is made up of a series of semi-fictionalised accounts of actual events during the convict era, loosely bound together with the tragic story of its hero. 2.1 List of locations described in the novel.
0 kommentar(er)
