Writing for the local press, his time is spent covering “polo matches, public inaugurations, a bridge tournament” rather than any of the concerns of the Indian people themselves. We see Kipling living in India at the chronological start of the issue, but he doesn’t write about Indian culture: in fact, it isn’t even visible to him. He believes his people have a god-given right to rule over everyone else. It doesn’t get addressed, but clearly we’d now see that Kipling’s belief is fueled through white supremacy in the superiority of the British way of life to that of citizens living throughout the rest of the world. As the creative team recontextualises throughout this issue, Kipling’s genuine belief in the good of his empire is what sparks his desire to pass on the word to everyone else round the world. The lie that was (and is, if current UK Government is anything to go by) the British empire was a hugely important one. As we’ve seen before in the series, there’s nothing more powerful than teaching the world to swallow a story, and Kipling is the ideal conduit for them. Finding that his praise of the empire isn’t finding as much purchase as he might like, Kipling falls in-step with the Cabal, who find him a wonderful tool to preach the messages they want the world to believe.
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Our narrator is Rudyard Kipling, whose life story is recontextualised to be about his rise and fall in public opinion because of the involvement of the Cabal in first promoting and then burying his name.Īlthough possibly best known now for a series of children’s stories wherein the white Kipling sets out what other cultures believe – The Just-So Stories, The Jungle Book, and so on – in The Unwritten our interest lies instead with his work in spreading the word of the British Empire, a message of imperialism and accepting conquest. Moving away from the story of Tom Taylor, issue #5 of The Unwritten steps back in time to 1886, to explore how the Cabal were involved in shaping popular thought and opinion around the world for decades before any of the Taylor family were even born. Only you can let it in no one else, no one else