Maud Ruthyn

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Maud Ruthyn is the young, impressionable heiress and narrator of Sheridan Le Fanu’s Gothic novel "Uncle Silas," whose perspective shapes the story’s atmosphere of suspense and psychological terror.

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Maud Ruthyn canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
heiress
literary character
narrator
protagonist
appearsIn Uncle Silas
associatedWith Bartram-Haugh
Knowl
centralThemeRelation imprisonment
inheritance
patriarchal control
psychological terror
religious anxiety
suspense
characterTrait curious
impressionable
naive
pious
sensitive
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
createdBy Sheridan Le Fanu
experiences attempted murder
confinement
gaslighting
isolation
firstAppearance Uncle Silas (1864)
gender female
genre Gothic fiction
sensation novel
hasGuardian Uncle Silas
hasRelative Austin Ruthyn
Uncle Silas
language English
literarySignificance example of Gothic female narrator
example of unreliable perception in Gothic fiction
narrativePerspective first person
narrativeRole first-person narrator
publicationContext 19th-century Gothic fiction
Victorian literature
roleInPlot victim-heroine
witness to mystery
shapes atmosphere of Uncle Silas
socialStatus upper class
threatenedBy Uncle Silas

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Uncle Silas mainCharacter Maud Ruthyn
Uncle Silas narrator Maud Ruthyn