Unlike Strickland, who has a thorough understanding of the Indian people and their culture, Fleete has little knowledge or respect for Indian customs. The narrator assures the reader that both he and his friend Strickland, a policeman and long-time resident of India, and the local doctor Dumoise can corroborate the facts of the story despite Dumoise’s ability to corroborate, his incorrect reading of the facts leads to his misinformed conclusion.įleete, a large “inoffensive man” (241), has come to India to finance some land he inherited from his uncle. This idea helps to inform the remarkable, but true, tale he is about to recount. The narrator suggests that in India, the Englishman’s god yields power to the “Gods and Devils of Asia” (241). An unnamed first-person narrator opens “The Mark of the Beast” with a “native,” or an East Indian proverb, that rhetorically asks whether one knows which gods are strongest.
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