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
Irene Redfield is a morally reprehensible woman with an ironic twinge to her character. While claiming she is proud of who she is and her race she simultaneously hides who she is for convenience. She looks down on those who do the same for the sake of being able to live without persecution.
This would occasionally include expressing their passion or disliking of something. Some would argue that it was not okay for musicians to express themselves in such matters. I argue that these musicians have the right to sing whatever they like. Musicians aren’t forcing anyone to listen to their music or to do what the message of their music says. Like everyone else, musicians have the right to exercise their freedom of speech. The First Amendment states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press...” Therefore, the moldy figs have the same right to say what they dislike about the music just as much as the artists have the right to sing about what they
In “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Irene Adler, a strong and intelligent actress, accuses Sherlock Holmes and The King of Bohemia with serious charges. Sherlock Holmes is a man who loathes being a part of society and keeps to himself. He is a well known detective with intelligent skills to solve the impossible cases.The King of Bohemia is Holmes client, and former lover of Irene Adler. In an attempt to recover a photograph, which is crucial to The King of Bohemia’s reputation, Sherlock Holmes as well as him are both charged with stalking and attempted robbery. In addition to this, as the London law enforcement officer, I would also deduce charges of possession and the
The writers don't seem to vary the settings in both novels which convey to the reader that the writer is keeping the setting in the same place so that the reader gets to know the characteristics of the setting in detail. Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes is very important to the detective-horror story genre because he satisfies most readers in terms of the personality of Sherlock Holmes by the way that he is a brilliant
I observed an individual who was confident to sing out loud while walking around a mall full of people. This young man who appeared to be in his early 20’s was alone walking very speedy throughout the mall with his earphones in singing to the music that he was listening to going along his day as people turned to look at him as he passed by. Several people as they walked by the gentleman would just look at him and smile in amaze by how loud he was singing to the music he was listening to. As I myself stood around I heard several people making comment questioning if he was okay and others talking about the song he choice to sing out. Many ‘under the breath’ comments the young man was receiving were based off of values and “the standards by which people defin[ed]” his choice of music or the way he sang to be “undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly” (49) appeared like it had no effect on the young man who choice to sing out loud as he walked
Singing is unfortunately not socially accepted unless one is at a concert or carolling with friends. It is for this reason that those who sing during a normal conversation or in everyday life are given weird looks: they are going against the unwritten social rules of society. Singing is associated with madness because it shows how the person has lost their awareness of how others perceive them. This is why the use of song is effective in both the poem Music Swims Back to Me by Anne Sexton and in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. It is a fast and simple way to convey to an audience that a character is mentally unstable. While the works both use song to represent the madness of the speakers, the speakers themselves use diction to give different
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous character, Sherlock Holmes, is renowned for his extraordinary power of observation. In the novel, How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, by Maria Konnikova, Konnikova aims to explain the thought process behind Doyle’s fictional sleuth. She hopes that exploring these processes will help the reader build habits of mindfulness and observation, allowing one to think like Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is a work of fiction, so Konnikova had to bring the characters, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson, into reality.
The book The Hound Of The Baskerville was written in 1901. The novel was published in serial form from 1901 to 1902. It has proved to be a great success even today and is considered by some Sherlock Holmes scholars to be Doyle’s best work. It has inspired more than twenty film and television reinterpretations, made in diverse places such as Germany, Australia, Canada, the United States, and also the United Kingdom. The most recent such reinvention of this story can be seen in the BBC series Sherlock, although this is in fact very much different from the original novel.
During the Victorian era, there were gender and class issues. These play a huge part in “A Scandal In Bohemia”. Conan wrote this story around the late 1800s and early 1900s. In England, men were considered the man of the house, and women were to stay at home. Also, princes were to marry royal and not break the royal bloodline.
However, despite the location not being a true representation, it features the key elements which are how the producers are able to appeal to the target audience of Sherlock Hound (TV Asahi, 1984-1985). As this is set in the 19th century and been produced by a Japanese in addition to an Italian production
Halfway through viewing Dangerous Liaisons, a remarkable contrast as well as a huge parallel came to mind. The film's principal characters' treatment of their promiscuity was quite different from what we see today. They were quite covert about their sexual relations, and often concocted cunning plans to assure the secrecy of their activities. Today we find quite the opposite taking place on our news programs and talk shows. It seems to me that the cause of this whole difference in treatment of sexuality is due to the advent of mass media. That pre-Revolutionary French society was not completely different from today, however. Like our treatment of the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal,
In "A Scandal in Bohemia," by Arthur Conan Doyle, society places women at an inferior level pushing them to the background therefore never allowing us, the reader, to know them, except for Irene Adler who shows the gender shift of the time period by becoming the main character in Sherlock Holmes investigation and the story. "A Scandal in Bohemia" speaks about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his adventure in retrieving a damaging photograph for a king from his ex-mistress. In the society Watson describes, the role of women is of little to no importance except for emphasis that focused on the Kings mistress Irene Adler.
One of the most significant and controversial elements found within the study of music is the representation of culture. Although the definition of representation according to Merriam-Webster is “a person or group that speaks or acts for or in support of another person or group,” it is not as easily said than done. The true act of representing another is both incredibly complex and challenging as it contains many subjective variables. History, for example, has demonstrated the complexity of defining what is true representation through the presence of leaders and authoritative figures who have failed to truthfully represent the common man. As a result, the people who have no outlet for expression are represented unjustly by those who do. Similarly,
Oftentimes, portraits are mistakenly believed to be objective representations of their subjects by the uninformed viewer. Thus, portraits are thought to simply depict the exact likeness of their sitters. In reality, however, they reveal much more than just the physical appearance of their figures. Portraits can, and usually do, convey a significant amount of information about their subjects, such as their wealth, social status, marital status, and moral virtue. Through the use of visual features like garments, props, and pose, portraits also tend to ascribe these attributes to their sitters, whether or not such characteristics are accurate. George Willison’s Nancy Parsons in Turkish Dress (1771) painting provides an excellent example that portraits are not merely records of how their sitters looked. With a thorough analysis of the portrait, multiple implied messages about Ms. Parsons are exposed. The Nancy Parsons in Turkish Dress portrait illustrates her profession as a courtesan, wealth and social status, and conformity to the contemporary conventions of femininity. Notorious for engaging in many intimate relationships with aristocratic men of all ranks and ages, such as Duke of Grafton, Duke of Dorset, and Viscount Maynard, Nancy Parsons wishes to emphasize these aspects of her identity in the painting to preserve her public self-image from further scandalous claims.
The role of Victorian women was expected to be limited to childbearing and housewife: caring only for the home and family while catering to their husband. The women of the 1890’s in Britain were expected to live a highly restrictive life with their life centered around their husband and subsequently their children. However, Irene Alder does not fit into this stereotype because, she is an intelligent and powerful female, who is independent and capable of subsisting outside the environment of home and family. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia,” challenges traditional social perceptions and gender assumptions toward Victorian women by creating social tension between female character Irene Alder and the male characters Sherlock Holmes and the King of Bohemia. Doyle’s character, Alder, is incongruent for her time in history. Although Sherlock Holmes is known