(1) Thesis
(a) Title
?Heroic Motivation as an Amateur Sleuth in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White?

(b) Thesis Statement
Many detective stories focus on how to solve a mystery. As readers turn the pages, they get hints from texts and they can think who is the villain or what hidden truth is. Apart from that, however, tThe Woman in White is not such a detective novel that includes crimes or murders. A The protagonist tries to rescue his lover from villains like a hero. aAt the same time he gathers information about the mystery like a detective. Without specified knowledge about laws, Collins left a great trace of writes, not a detective story, but a hero story. the Woman in White does not include some detective or mystery elements inside the story. Rather than that, it is a heroic story that contains melodrama. This paper is going to argue critics that admit the novel became a factor to produce the frame of mystery genre.

(2) Chapter 1
(a) title
?the style of the novel in the Victorian times ?

(b) Thesis Statement
In the first chapter, this paper will reveal how the periodical edition meets public demand that is not familiar to detectives. The Woman in White firstly was not published as a complete novel, but wrote on appeared in a magazine periodically. Therefore, readers could think about what would might happen later as next, exactly the same as Hartright does in the story. At In the middle of the ninetieth century, there was no official police force. Thus, Collins’s style enabled readers and author to figure out the story together. The first chapter one focuses on the relationship between the way he describes story and the public attention to characters.

(3) Chapter 2
(a) title
?two protagonists vs two villains?

(b) Thesis Statement
the chapter two analyses the framework that a hero and a heroin are against two evils in the story. (?) Firstly about Hartright and Marian, both two protagonists are trying to defend Laura from evils. (?) Secondly about Sir Percivial Glyde and his friend, Count Fosco, especially described as evils, and one of them dies eventually. The chapter figure out the reason why Percivial is not killed but still dies in the story.

(4) Chapter 3
(a) title
? an important role of Laura that makes protagonists more hero and heroine players?

(b) Thesis Statement
The third chapter will reveal how Laura Fairlie makes a role of the character who is protected by other characters from evils. Her plenty money is about to be theft by her actual fiancé who she decided to marry. The chapter focus how her character that attracts Hartright and her sister is described, and what makes them to help her from the villains.

(5) Chapter 4
(a) title
? detectives from heroism?

(b) Thesis Statement
The fourth chapter will analyze how heroism influence a role of a detective in the later part of story. This novel is not a criminal story, therefore the chapter untied how the detective role is highlighted and reveal resemblance between a detective and a hero in the Woman in White