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Strickland In Rudyard Kipling's The Mark Of The Beast

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In the short story “The Mark of the Beast” by Rudyard Kipling, Strickland is the monster. Strickland does many horrifying things, some that the author felt “is not to be printed,” to the Silver Man (Kipling 7). He breaks moral codes in order to get his friend back. He treats the Silver Man with cruelty and is merciless when attempting to get the Silver Man to turn Fleete back. Finally, he inspires enough fear in the Silver Man that he does take the curse off of Fleete and allows him to turn back into a human being. `He even feels like he and the narrator have “disgraced themselves as Englishmen forever” (Kipling 8).

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