Here are the quick notes we took as a class on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia”
Watson is the narrator: what sort of character is Watson? What does he add to the story? (Noted: mild sarcasm, Holmes’s audience, observation skills which differ from Holmes’s, etc.)
Holmes’s feelings for/about Irene Adler: is it just because she beat him that he’s so deeply affected by her? (Noted: the letter she wrote; she taunts him!)
Why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle make Holmes a detective, instead of, say, a doctor (like House M.D., or a scientist as Watson muses)? (Noted: Winners/losers, public bragging rights, kitschy mystery genre)
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