Title: Ballantynes' loosely created Utopia
Product review: R.M.Ballantynes' coral island is typical of Victorian age novels with loose and incoherent plot,lifeless & flat characters and involving a deep religious fervour.No doubt the credit goes to the writer for his first-hand knowledge about trees and his vivid description of the islands beauty and its surroundings.But at the same time, the author is to be castigated for creating characters whose chastiness supercedes that of Christ.Half naked girls fail to arouse them sexually.The barbaric fights in which they indulged with the savages did not affect their mentality and they remained jovial throughout the novel.I believe that the critics who declared it as a classical novel were either the relatives of the author or were paid by him.
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