Status Quo Of Sherlock And The Gang By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Society’s expectations of gender roles in the 1920s impacts men and women’s lives, but the expectations have a much larger impact on women. These gender roles are especially important in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story focuses more on the men which is a direct reflection of the patriarchal society that the characters live in. Daisy, an important female character, is a victim of society’s discrimination against women. Society’s perception of Daisy overlooks her true value. In Daisy’s time, the men, like Tom and Gatsby, have looser morals but are still superior to her. This leads to the creation of stereotypes causing her to be objectified by the men throughout the book. Once readers see the societal norms from the 1920s, they will begin to understand why Daisy is treated unfairly. The patriarchy that drives Daisy’s community creates the social norm of women being subordinate to men making it seem as though she is a possession rather than a loving companion.

The role of women in society was displayed quite clearly by the entrance of John’s sister. The woman writes, “There comes John’s sister. Such a dear girl as she is, and so careful of me! I must not let her find me writing. She is a perfectionist and enthusiastic housekeeper, and hopes for no better profession. I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which makes me sick!” John’s sister is representative of the typical woman. A woman who is pleased with her life, and wishes for no more. John’s wife, however, is rebelling on her place in society by writing. This is why she includes the statement; “…I verily believe she thinks it is the writing which makes me sick!”

The general public depicted in An's story utilizes a test to decide how masculine or feminine an individual is to dole out them to specific assignments and sexual orientation particular positions. While this is by all accounts fairly tragic at to start with, it quite accurately reflects the present society. In spite of the fact that individuals are not compelled to seek after professions that fit their cliché gender roles, in reality, there are unmistakable "manly" and "ladylike" connotations with numerous policed acts, wherein not adhered to, is met with prejudice, violence and varying levels of ridicule.

Some critics have advanced the notion that one of the reasons there is such a paucity of women and of strong, beneficent women in particular within this story is due to what they represented in typical Victorian England society. Women were generally viewed as "a social force or a source of authority" which "reinforces this fiction of coherent male identity" (Doane and Hodges 63). This quotation suggests the fact that women were generally the keepers of morality and virtue within Victorian

For example, in Paper 1, I discussed how the police were used to illustrate the detective. It seems that The Long Goodbye presents a story about “love and loss,” but in fact, what Chandler tries to depict is the friendships between Detective Marlowe and the mysterious Terry Lennox. In other words, the story is not about love, but about masculinity. For example, Plain points out that even Roger Wade shows his masculinity by “drinking himself into an easily killable stupor” after he feels disappointed and is “refusing to complete a debased cultural product” (p. 81). The main theme of masculinity thus forms the female characters in the novel. The female characters could also be regarded as significant elements for building the traits of the detective and/or the novel, and to differentiate the masculinity that Chandler wishes to illustrate in the

When questioning Holmes’s motives, one can first examine biological theories. Did crime run in his family? Did he have a bad childhood? Or maybe he was just born with a gene that would somehow trigger him to be a criminal eventually in his life. It’s very possible that he could have suffered an abusive childhood, causing him to grow up and seek a way to somehow enact ‘revenge’ for his own pains.

Doyle, constructs this hero as a character who is almost completely human, but still fictional. Unlike other heroic fictional characters while he is considered a ‘hero’ amongst many people, his ‘heroic’ deeds are what define his ‘good’ attributes, being his freakish intellectual abilities. However there is a counter-balance to this brilliance, and his own worst enemy is in fact, boredom. He is, at core, more than often concerned of the case itself, rather than the individuals’ involved. His human attributes also involve ‘imperfections’ within the typical hero genre, having dabbled in drugs. Despite this Berg argues that even though Sherlock’s existence has left a positive influence for many figures, and the idea of such a character has had a great impact on human

When it comes to the subject of social class, this story reminded me of just about every other book we’ve read this semester, in the way they decided to depict the lower class. Both Holmes and Doyle come from a very privileged and educated background, and had a very bad attitude towards anyone from even a slightly lower class, even though they relied on the lower classes to do a lot of things for them. They treated the lower classed people as second class citizens and it really speaks to the time period. For some reason all of our stories have read include upper-middle class people who seemed perfect normal on the outside, but had some really weird supernatural or crazy thing happen. It makes me think that one thing I could take from these books is “mo money, mo problems.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short “The Red-Headed League" is a detective mystery where the plot of the story is to solve a case, meanwhile George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion is a romantic comedy in which the plot consists of turning a flower girl from the streets into a proper lady. The two stories do not share much in common, but the characters in them do have some similarities. In the “Red-Headed League”, the character John Clay is the main antagonist, he is deceptive, clever and is considered "at the head of his profession" in the criminal world (Doyle 33). These same attributes can be found in the character of Henry Higgins from the story of Pygmalion, who is a professor of phonetics. While Higgins does not commit any crimes worthy of villainy on the level of Clay, he does have his share of villainous acts.

Rules are supposed to be followed. Sherlock homes had a choice to make weather or not made the wrong decision. In my opinion, Sherlock homes possibly made the wrong decision.

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer—excellent for drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which

Agatha Christie and Jane Austen both reveal the expectations for women in their novels in terms of behaviour and knowledge. Christie shows through her male characters what the male-dominant society expects of women. Simon Doyle is a character who demonstrates the typical ‘man’ in society, and views women in a way where they must follow certain rules and behave in a sane, collected manner, for "[t]here 's no reason why women shouldn 't behave like rational beings," (Christie 77). Simon essentially summarizes the expectations placed on women. Women must always be rational, always keep up a good appearance, while men are excused for

In addition to his experiences during both his childhood and adult life, there were both individuals and events that also influenced his writings. His professor at medical school had a huge impact on his life. Dr. Joseph Bell was a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where Doyle attended medical school. He was a harsh teacher because he demanded strict and disciplined work out of his students. As James P. Draper confirmed, Doyle worked best under these conditions. James P. Draper explained, "He thrived on the harsh regiment at these institutions"(1004). He built his primary character, Sherlock Holmes, based on the philosophy and personality of Dr. Bell. Holmes used unique characteristics of a person’s behavior and mannerisms to solve crimes. Dr. Bell used similar methods to analyze his students. This character became known around the world, as a great detective and the marque character in Doyle’s writings. Doyle also used his own experiences in his stories. Doyle made the life of Holmes like his personal bachelor life. As the Dictionary of Literary Biographers writes, “Doyle's marriage marked a turning point in all areas of his life. In his bachelor days he lived, like Holmes, a bohemian existence and mainly attended to his medical work; after his marriage he enjoyed a more comfortable and stable home life"(British short...). As the Dictionary of Literary Biographers confirmed,

He also refers to similar cases to the ones he is working on "You will

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, and passed on July 7,1930 of a heart attack. He was born into a prosperous Irish family in which he was the eldest son of ten children of Mary Foley Doyle and Charles Doyle. His father, Charles Doyle was not an artist by profession but was responsible for some of the earlier illustrations in his sons series of Sherlock Holmes. His father was also a chronic alcoholic. Mary Foley Doyle was master storyteller with a passion for books which shows in Arthur himself. His family were followers of Roman Catholicism, Doyle himself had been educated by Jesuits, but as a young boy found himself "veering" away from Catholicism, with no interest in another religion or belief. When attending school he had many a skill and had talents in various sports, which he later portrayed in Sherlock Holmes. When he was in school is played cricket and had been very good at it. Doyle also developed a skill of storytelling and often found himself with groups of younger children around him listening to the stories. He was an avid reader of many genres including adventure, historical romance, and gothic novels, this being what struck him to write stories in similar genres while in practice of his medical profession. Training at Edinburgh University he met a sum of other authors such as; James Barrie and robert Lewis Stevenson. Of all the people he met the greatest influence came from his professor, Dr. Joseph Bell. Dr. Bell was a master at observation,