The novel, originally written in 1897 is a narration of a creature of terror and is representative of the dark and mystic Egypt. The Beetle is one of the novels written during the Victorian era and whose readership has remained over the years. The character, Beetle, can change its nature at will making it a creature that is very horrifying. The book tells of a revenge story castigated against people that committed crimes on followers of a certain religious group. The writer uses his literature skills to taint the character of the Beetle as having hypnotic powers that enable it to prey on Middle-class young people of English decent.

It is quite clear that the book is a product of the Victorian era from the themes analyzed. The fascination with sex, orgies and occult is one such theme. The book asserts that Lessingham is the target of Atherton’s “homoerotic and homosocial admiration” (Marsh, 2013, pp 104). The writer portrays the Beetle as a creature on a personal and political motive of revenge. It travels to England to seduce and abscond white British women as a way of undermining British power. It is also clear that the Beetle had seduced and kidnapped Lessingham in Cairo many years before.

The style used in narrating the story makes the book more interesting. For instance, the writer uses four perspectives, one from each character, to advance the storyline of the text. The overlapping manner between the four different characters gives the story the requisite flow while still offering different perspectives. Moreover, the writer uses labels to illustrate which of the four characters is narrating the story at any given time. By so doing, the writer is sure of catching the reader’s attention throughout the text. Further, the uniqueness of each of the four characters’ lives and personal experiences makes the story devoid of monotony. For instance, while Holt is poor and Champnell an unbiased third party, Atherton and Lindon are pompous and simple respectively[1].

The use of suspense is also vastly applied making the reader not want to put the book away. For instance, when the writer narrates Holt’s interaction with the Beetle, an instance where the latter preys on the former, he delays the narration to bring suspense. The detailed narration of the features of the Beetle and how it presses its blubber lips to those of Holt give the reader an anxiety of wanting to know what happened from there. Just as the reader becomes attached to the happenings in the incident, the writer changes the scene and narrates another instance. The perfect usage of the suspense is enough to make the reader want to read the book more than once.

The book reveals and packages violence as the only way of defeating an enemy. In one instance, Atherton is seen as going out of her way to create weapons of mass destruction for Her Majesty[2]. The writer goes on to state that if the weapons that are relied upon to kill men were of such precision and preserved peace, then his imagination of their glorification was the perfectly timed. The writer even castigates those who think otherwise calling them fools for saying that the weapons cannot be used to preserve peace.

 Bibliography

Marsh, Richard. 2013. The Beetle. Lanham: Start Publishing LLC. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1132773.

[1] Marsh, Richard. 2013. The Beetle. Lanham: Start Publishing LLC.

[2] Marsh, Richard. 2013. The Beetle. Lanham: Start Publishing LLC.

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