Biography of Rudyard Kipling
1865 - Kipling is born in Bombay, India.
1871 - Kipling and his younger sister Alice are separated from their parents and sent to
England to be educated.
1878 - Kipling enters public school in North Devon.
1882 - Kipling ends his formal education and returns to India to become a trainee
journalist.
1886 - Publication of Departmental Ditties. Kipling begins to make a name for himself as
a young writer of some repute.
1887 - Soldiers Three, In Black and White, The Phantom Rickshaw, Wee Willie Winkle, The
Story of the Gadsbys, and the stories later collected in The Smith
Administration, The City of Dreadful Night, and Letters of Marque, were all
written and published.
1889 - Kipling returns to London and embarks upon a decade of rising fame and extreme
productivity. Kim, The Jungle Book, Stalky and Co., Captain’s Courageous , The
Seven Seas and The Days Work are all published to great success.
1891- Marries Caroline Balestrier and emigrates to the USA
1899 - Death of first born child, Josephine, in New York.
1900 - Begins sojourn in South Africa. Becomes leading proponent of the Boer War.
1908 - Greatly disillusioned by the Liberal governments policy in South Africa, Kipling
returns to England.
1914 - World War one begins. Kipling believes his long-held suspicion of the Germans has
been justified. He once more becomes an enthusiastic proponent of the British war
effort.
1915 - Kipling’s 18 year old son John disappears in battle. Kipling never really
recovers from the loss. Kipling is diagnosed with the ailments that would later
kill him.
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...nsued when John Kipling disappeared in action only a month after his arrival.
Kipling saw the subsequent settlement at Versailles as another betrayal, mocking the sacrifices of the fallen allies.
For his remaining two decades, he endured constant pain and discomfort from a series of misdiagnosed stomach ailments. In his autobiography Something of Myself (1935) , Kipling makes no mention of his years of suffering, just as he also avoids mention of the other tragedies in his life. He continued to write, and to develop his art, right up until the end of his life. He died in January 1936.
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Kipling, Rudyard. Something of Myself and Other Autobiographical Writings, ed. Thomas Pinney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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details the causes of the first World war and describes the first month of the war. The book clearly illustrates how a local war became an entire European struggle by a call to war against Russia. Soon after the war became a world issue.
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The idea of “nature of necessity” is a major concept discussed in Walzer’s essay and this particular concept relates to the reason of war or reasons for war. In his opinion, we can only justify the killing of people we already have reason to think are liable to be killed (Walzer, 144). He goes into detail in his description of this nature of necessity discussing the examples of the “naked soldiers”, or soldiers who are fighting for their nation’s war cause, but not actually fighting in the fullest meaning of the word. One of the example Walzer discusses in his tale of the naked soldiers is the soldier on patrol duty by himself unaware of the potential enemy snipers that could take him out at any point in time. Is it morally unethical and wrong for the opposing sniper to take out this patrol man who is not necessarily doing any harm at the moment? Walzer states that, “a naked man, like a funny man, is not a soldier”, and I myself completely agree with this statement (140). I believe that it is this thought here that indicates how war tactics should be carried out. Why harm innocent people who just happ...
Creighton conveyed himself as an elusive member of the boring Ethnological Survey. Kipling wrote that he would be content among the old order in London as much as he was in India. He displayed a calm structured demeanor that came from the very structured English way of life. He patiently approached Kim and saw valu...
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Rudyard Kipling´s “Kim” (1901), which was based on the Great Game (espionage and politics) between Europe and Asia in Afghanistan. Kipling´s novel takes places in India. An Anglo-Indian boy using his Indian origin as a cover for colonial espionage during the Great Game. The story of Kim is about a boy who succeeded to be recruited by the British Secret Service and under their guidance he became a spy for a mission. The story is also about Kim´s desire to be accepted towards the Empire. Though Kim wanted to be accepted, he had no loyalty to the British. He is interested in being in espionage for the adventure and fun. Kipling was also an author of short stories. His first stories included in the collection Life´s Handicap – The Man who was (1890) a story of a British officer who had been captured in Russia during the intelligence service task and fled many years later. The Man who was shows seamy sides of the army, the rituals, loyalty but also the frustration of the officers. The second story The Mutiny of the Mavericks has a different theme – features the role of a secret Irish republican organization based in America which followed its goal to cause a mutiny (with the help of an agent provocateur) against the British among the Irish soldiers. Another Kipling´s story with spy plot is A Burgher of the Free State and a poem
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English journalist, Joseph Rudyard Kipling used his writing to express his complicated views on the expansion of countries and Empires. The Man Who Would Be King, his most famous work, tells the story of two British adventurers and their desire to become kings of a remote part of Afghanistan. The story is told through the eyes of an unnamed narrator and direct quotes from one of the adventurers, Peachy Carnehan. Though Kipling’s other ambiguous works would suggest he may have had a bitter view of imperialism and the British Empire, I think The Man Who Would Be King and other historical pieces by Kipling would suggest a more complex view. Historical connections in the novella and the elements of his novella indicate this.
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, in 1865 when India was still part of the British Empire. Young Kipling was fascinated with India and its folklore and customs, which would later inspire many works set in a romanticized India. At the age of six, Kipling and his sister Alice were sent to England to further their education, as his parents feared the influence that Indian society would have on their children. While boarding with an abusive foster family in England for the next six years of his life, a period during which he was intensely miserable, Kipling began inventing companions in the form of anthropomorphic animals (Kipling, v). He was then enrolled, at the age of twelve, in the United Services College, an unruly paradise in which the highest goals of English education are met amid a tumult of teasing, bullying, and beating (Britannica). Given his rather tumultuous and difficult childhood, it is no surprise that many of his works have a streak of cynical and brutal sentiments within them.