"SO BLACK IT'S BLUE"

SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF POOR MISS FINCH (1872), BY WILKIE COLLINS

Abstract

This Research aim to the piece Poor Miss Finch (1872), by Wilkie Collins, as main objective, to identified established ethnic and racial relations by the characters of this own work, in special the protagonist, Lucilla Finch, where can be acknowledged the positive and negative by it’s own proeminence, by the Generative Path of Semiotic Meaning of Greimas, in conformity with Barros (2005). On The theoretical fundamentation, for the contextualization of the historical and social period played for Collins (1872) in it’s work, following a path that could be enlightened and projected by studies by Brophy (2019), Durgan (2015), Gladden (2005), Kling (1966) e Nayder (2003), to evidence relationships of Imperialism between India and England, denouncing racist ways and religious intolerance that was common in the Indigo Uprising(1859-1862), when indian soldiers, the so called sepoys were constantly disrespected and persecuted, influencing the english collective consciousness to see the indian as a inferior race. As Result, can be obtained that Miss Finch, even blind, maintains the racist beliefs to the black-ish people Ironically, Lucilla gets in love with Oscar, a painter that moved to the house next to hers, that after a robbery, starts convulsionate once in a while as he got a traumatism, where he can’t help to evict they’re marriage from not happening. As final considerations, it can be acknowlegde that in fact, ending up with the blue brother shows that she gets over her discrimination, as the england could get over their problematical beliefs and racism over indian people