How is Kings Abbott used as a setting in TMoRA? 🏡

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What is a hermetically sealed setting?

No characters are allowed in or out - typical of golden age fiction

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What is King's Abbott a bastion of?

The rural idyll

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bourgeious

middle class

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Twee

Quaint

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social milieu

the social or cultural beliefs surroundings of the story

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nucleated

centered around a focal point - in this case Fernly Park

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What is the rural idyll?

An idealised, romanticised construct that presents rural areas as happier, healthier and with fewer problems than urban areas.

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rectitude

moral uprightness; righteousness

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What famous line did Christie write in Murder at the Vicarage?

"They say all the world loves a lover—apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth."

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Why does a tight knit community setting work for detective fiction?

We feel as though we are intruding into their world of morality and bourgeious, and investigating them.

We are made to leave our old suppositions of rural life and see the truth.

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Why does a cast of potential suspects work in TMoRA?

It becomes more difficult to track and punish a criminal if everyone has a motive. This plays onto contemporary fears of Christie's audience as post-war they wanted issues to be resolved, the threat of criminality was terrifying.

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How is King's Abbott 'dangerous'

The network of 'gossip' is intense and concentated. Caroline's 'cronies' act as 'intelligence corps'.

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What emotion do the rural settings in golden age detective fictions play on?

Nostalgia

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Barbaric murder is contrasted with what?

edenic, rural peace

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What does Holmes say to Watson in The Adventures of the Copper Beeches

''The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin that does the smiling and beautiful countryside''

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What did Christie say about life in rural villages?

''There is a great deal of wickedness in village life''