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Hildred Castaigne (Hildred de Calvados Castaigne) is the primary character of The Repairer of Reputations, both protagonist and narrator, albeit unreliably. He begins his story by telling us about the world of alternate 1920s, which is either a possible future as viewed in 1895, when the story was first published, or the product of an unstable mind still living in 1895. Potentially, it contains elements of both. We learn that before his accident Hildred was "fond of fishing... You used to be fond of everything, athletics, yachting, shooting, riding..." but now he'd rather study.

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rdfs:comment	Hildred Castaigne (Hildred de Calvados Castaigne) is the primary character of The Repairer of Reputations, both protagonist and narrator, albeit unreliably. He begins his story by telling us about the world of alternate 1920s, which is either a possible future as viewed in 1895, when the story was first published, or the product of an unstable mind still living in 1895. Potentially, it contains elements of both. We learn that before his accident Hildred was "fond of fishing... You used to be fond of everything, athletics, yachting, shooting, riding..." but now he'd rather study.
dcterms:subject	King In Yellow Characters Characters Castaigne Family
abstract	Hildred Castaigne (Hildred de Calvados Castaigne) is the primary character of The Repairer of Reputations, both protagonist and narrator, albeit unreliably. He begins his story by telling us about the world of alternate 1920s, which is either a possible future as viewed in 1895, when the story was first published, or the product of an unstable mind still living in 1895. Potentially, it contains elements of both. As presented, Hildred appears to be quite arrogant, proud, and easy to provoke. We learn quite early on, after he has accounted for the details of recent events on a national/global scale, the fact that he has had an accident, a fall from a horse, which led to him being diagnosed as mentally ill, a state from which he has supposedly recovered, though he denies he was ever ill at all. In fact this denial is just one small facet of the madness that envelops him and this story. Another is that, during the period of his recovery, Hildred had read The King In Yellow. He sees that his perceptions do not marry up with those of other people that he encounters, which leads the reader to doubt the accuracy of the world he describes. We learn that before his accident Hildred was "fond of fishing... You used to be fond of everything, athletics, yachting, shooting, riding..." but now he'd rather study. At the end of the story he is dragged away by the police. An editor's note at the end of the story tells us: "Mr. Castaigne died yesterday in the Asylum for Criminal Insane."

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