A Scandal In Belgravia Essay

When Irene finally realizes that this woman is Clare, someone who chooses to “pass” and hide all traces of her black heritage, Irene’s opinion of her changes. She no longer wants to be involved with Clare in any way, and “had no desire or intention of making the slightest effort about Tuesday. Nor any other day for that matter. She was through with Clare Kendry.” (p. 31) Irene is appalled that someone can so easily throw away her background just for the sake of gaining privilege over another race. When Clare asks her if she had ever thought of passing, Irene replies, “No. Why should I? You see, Clare, I’ve everything I want.” (p. 28) She is happy with what she has, not even having to give up anything to get there. Or at least that’s what she convinces herself to believe. Irene is again hypocritical in her beliefs. Even when she opposes Clare’s view of passing, she is still very interested in the idea. “The truth was, she was curious. There were things she wanted to ask Clare Kendry. She wished to find out about this hazardous business of ‘passing’…” (p. 24) She even admitted that she held for her “a fascination, strange and compelling.” (p. 28) Irene doesn’t seem to be able to decide if she accepts passing as reasonable. She forces herself to disagree with passing, allowing her to hate Clare for doing it. This shows us that sexuality and race are two matters that conflict with each other, at least in Irene’s opinion. She uses race to

During her shopping trip with her friend, Felise, Irene accidentaly met Jack Bellew. Irene considered warning Clare that Jack might aware of her racial status and possibly Clare’s too. However, Irene told nothing for she was worried that Clare’s divorce might encourage Irene’s husband, Brian, to leave her for Clare. Irene relationship with her husband was not good at that time, and she noted that Brian might like Clare more than friend. On one night, Clare accompanied Irene and Brian to Felise’s party which was held on a top of a building. Clare husband, Jack, suddenly came and shouted at Clare “You’re a nigger, a damned dirty nigger!, and tragically, the story ended with Clare’s death which she fell from an open window of the top of that

Irene and Brian’s marriage symbolized the different roles of women and men in their home. Although she told Clare that she had all the things she wanted and that did not need to ‘pass’ as white, Irene still struggled with her marriage and the control

Irene’s strange attraction and jealousy toward Clare is reveal throughout the novel, which started at the Drayton Hotel. She felt a peculiar attraction when she saw Clare, “ an attractive-looking young woman… with those dark, almost black eyes and that wide mouth like a scarlet flower against the ivory of her sin” (14). Irene can’t help but be compel over her sexuality. In later assessing of Clare, Irene always go back to describe Clare with fascination, “the eyes were magnificent dark, sometimes

Irene yelled and cried the whole time. Her father brought her straight to the doctor, and the doctor said the same thing to them as what they said to Laura Dawn. He diagnosed it as bewitchment.

The narrative of Irene’s thoughts at this time about this stranger stress the anxiety she has about being discovered as a black woman and builds the tension leading to the uncanny moment. The uncanny moment occurs when “Suddenly her small fright increased. Her neighbor had risen and was coming towards her. What was going to happen now? Looking up at her, Irene’s suspicions and fears vanished”(Larsen 8). This moment follows Freud’s definition of uncanny because of it being a moment when Clare appears to be both familiar and unfamiliar to Irene. Clare is familiar in the sense that they were childhood friends, though also unfamiliar because Irene does not know who she is as an adult or her current lifestyle. This moment can also be defined as “the uncanny is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, once very familiar”(Freud 1). In this case from a psychoanalytical perspective it suggests that Irene and Clare have a complicated history in which Larsen leaves it open for interpretation. Irene describes Clare in the first couple pages as “catlike” and reminisces about the day when Clare’s father passed away, then suddenly she cuts off her train of thought with “And how deliberately she had-”(Larsen 3). Perhaps Clare had done something to Irene in the past, which

Irene Redfield, as a third-person limited narrator in the novel Passing by Nella Larsen, perceives and remembers characters differently. For example, when it comes to describing her old friend Clare Kendry, Irene’s perception of her changes so often that the reader feels they never truly gets to know her. For example, on page 2 of the novel, it is stated: “There had been, even in those days, nothing sacrificial in Clare Kendry’s idea of life, no allegiance beyond her own immediate desire. She was selfish, and cold, and hard. Yet she had, too, a strange capacity of transforming warmth and passion, verging sometimes on almost theatrical heroics.” (2) This description of Clare comes from when Irene is remembering, in flashback, what she remembered Clare to be like as a child. One thing that stands out most about this passage is the fact that Clare is described in a negative light. All of her flaws are highlighted, and the description is written in such a way that even when positive things are being said about Clare, they are put through a negative light. It is strange, still, that Irene was thinking such varying thoughts on Clare. It almost feels as though Irene never truly got to know Clare, only the facades that she chose to wear. The differing options of how she perceived Clare are perplexing. Clare is selfish but passionate, cold but warm. It makes the reader wonder what Clare is truly like, because through this passage, they are only given one person’s

Irene wants to control her relationship with Clare and seems frustrated as she loses control when Clare is around. One occasion, Irene tries hard not to accept Clare’s invitation to meet her but ends up going. Later, Irene’s anger goes away just by the power of Clare’s smile, "And under her potent smile a part of Irene's annoyance with herself fled”. This constant loose of power makes Irene vulnerable and the possible affair between Clare and Brian gives Irene a motive for hating her instead of admitting her lesbianism and losing the life she has worked so hard to build.

"Nowadays the plays' meaning is usually blurred by the fact that the actor plays to the audiences hearts. The figures portrayed are foisted on the audience and are falsified in the process. Contrary to present custom they ought to be presented quite coldly, classically and objectively. For they are not matter for empathy; they are there to be understood and politely added

In Conan Doyle’s short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” (1888), Sherlock Holmes can tell that the stranger possess great wealth before he speaks a single word. Sherlock Holmes analyzes everything when it comes to people. He uses their appearance, how they carry themselves, and what kind of objects they have on them. The author uses descriptive words to describe the way the stranger looked. This essay will prove that Sherlock Holmes is so observant of everyone, that he can tell who you are before speaking to you.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle explores mysteries through the eyes of Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes’s assistant. Holmes is able to amaze the people around him with his deductive abilities and can quickly determine aspects of a person’s life by just looking at them. This allows him to solve mysteries that others cannot wrap their heads around. He uses his skill to first help the King of Bohemia recover a picture of him with a former lover. Next, he investigates the disappearance of the Red-Headed League. In both of these mysteries he experiences a unique challenge due to the intelligence of his opponents and the unusual situation surrounding the case. The cunning and cleverness of Holmes, Irene Adler and the conspirators of the Red-Headed League are shown in the stories “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia”.

In “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Arthur Conan Doyle, social classes took a big influence on who avoided punishments. Irene Adler, a strong and intelligent women accused Sherlock Holmes and the King of Bohemia with serious charges. Sherlock Holmes is a man who loathes being apart of society and keeps to himself. He is a detective well known with intelligent skills. The King of Bohemia is Holmes client, and former lover of Irene Adler. In attempt to recover a photograph that is crucial to the king of bohemias reputation, Sherlock Holmes as well as the King of bohemia are both charged with stalking and attempted robbery. In addition to this, further investigations take action and deduce charges of possession and the use of drugs against Sherlock Holmes, as well as plotting to throw a smoke bomb through Irene Adler’s window. As for the King of Bohemia, he is also charged with treason.

¨‘You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.” this quote from A Scandal in Bohemia shows that some people do not observe, they just look at the obvious. All the clues and hint that are in the movies and stories that the villains have left , Watson just looks at everything around him unlike Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is able to identify who the culprit is throughout the short stories and the films that we watched in class. Both of these movies, Sherlock Holmes and The Great Mouse Detective, have antagonists that are represented in different ways.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle utilizes many detail-oriented literary elements to develop the many adventures of the famous fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, John Watson. Long winded description and complex vocabulary are infused into Doyle’s writing to accentuate Holmes’s great intelligence. By incorporating such a heavy, educated tone upon the mysteries, the tales of Sherlock Holmes are expressed as very complicated stories that challenge readers in comprehension as well as encourage curiosity through puzzling cases.

Another source of information about her dad is her family. Irene is hesitant to talk about her first husband. First she tells Sam, “I was married to him for one month before he left, and I never saw him again…I hardly even remember him” (p. 167). She also displays some bitterness about the war and tells Sam not to make it out like it was a happy time (p. 236). Emmett is also reluctant to