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Irene Helmock And The Modern Version Of Sherlock

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The new version of Sherlock by the BBC is similar to the old novels in many ways. It is still about the great detective Sherlock, and his friend, Watson solving mysteries together. However, it uses the items in the story, the elements of the story, and its cultural narrative to move the stories into the 21st century. In the Modern Version of Sherlock, there are many gadgets and objects that were not present in the 19th century. There many examples of these gadgets in the tv show. The most obvious one is the cell phone. In both of the episodes we watched in class, cell phones played an important role in the overall plot. In “A study in Pink” the pink cell phone is what leads Sherlock to the murderer. In “A Scandal in Belgravia,” the compromising photos and the secret message about the “bond plane” were contained in Irene Adler’s cell phone. Sherlock uses the smartphone to trace the location of the murderer, and then John Watson uses the phone to trace Sherlock. Without the phone, Watson would not have known Sherlock’s location, and because of that would not have shot the …show more content…

The most obvious example of this is in the story, “A Scandal in Bohemia,” and its TV counterpart, “A Scandal in Belgravia”. In “A Scandal in Bohemia, Irene Adler is a singer, which is viewed as extremely undesirable. It is so bad that the king of Bohemia hired Sherlock to try and get it back. He even travels to 221b Baker Street, where Sherlock and Watson lives in disguise, because he was so afraid of being identified. This shows the cultural belief in the 19th century that a singer, or any type of performer is undesirable, and should be avoided, especially by the upper class. In “A Scandal in Belgravia”, Irene Adler is a Dominatrix, which now, in the 21st century, is viewed as undesirable. The member of the royal family who had photographs taken of wanted to stay anonymous for this reason. You can see the obvious shift in culture by this

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