Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Sign of the Four Themes
- Crime and Punishment
- Athelney
Jones
- Very straight forward with the way he tries to solve
crimes
- 'The net begins to close upon him'
- 'Let us apply common sense to the matter'
- Jumps to conclusions
- '"You are not quite in possession of the facts yet"' - Sherlock Holmes
- '"I wouldn't answer for our safety now, if he should happen to have another of his attacks of energy"'
- '"The card is some hocus pocus, -a blind as like not"'
- Sherlock Holmes
- '"My mind," he said "rebels at stagnation. Give me work, the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants"'
- '"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"' - Sherlock Holmes
- The 'Four'
- Arrested for stealing the treasure
- 'Arrested for the murder of Achmed'
- Maj. Sholto and Capt. Morstan
- Stole the treasure from 'the Four' and lost their lives over it
- '"His face turned a dusky hue and he fell backwards, cutting his head against the corner of the treasure chest...he was dead."' - Major Sholto
- '"When we returned to my father his head had dropped and his pulse had ceased to beat"' - Thaddeus Sholto
- Love and Friendship
- Doctor Watson
- Watson falls for Mary at the beginning of the novel
- '"What a very attractive woman!" I exclaimed' - Watson
- Watson shows concern for Holmes' health
- '"Count the cost! Your brain may, as you say, be roused and excited, but it is a pathological and morbid process..."' - Watson
- '"Surely the game is hardly worth the candle"' - Watson
- Mary Morstan
- Mary agrees to marry Watson
- '"Miss Morstan has done me the honor to accept me as a husband in prospective"'
- Sherlock Holmes
- The 'Four'
- Jonathan Small refuses to betray his friends
- '"I know that they would have me...throw the treasure into the Thames rather than let it go to kith or kin of Sholto or of Morstan"' - Jonathan Small
- Duality
- Sherlock Holmes
- Mood can change with the wind
- 'His bright humor marked the reaction from his black depression of the preceding days'
- Has a double life
- 'the man who fought three rounds with you at Alison's rooms on the night of your benefit...'
- '"There are in me the makings of a very fine loafer and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow."' - Sherlock Holmes
- Englishness and Foreignness
- Tonga
- Native to the Andaman Islands - unfamiliar
- 'that strange visitor to our shores
- The 'Four'
- Thaddeus Sholto
- Surrounds himself with Indian artefacts
- '"An oasis of art in the howling desert of south London"' - Thaddeus Sholto
- Wealth and
Treasure
- The 'Four'
- Originally found the Agra treasure and lost it to Major Sholto and Captain Morstan
- '"The scoundrel had stolen it all [all the treasure], without carrying out one of the conditions on which we had sold him the secret."' - Jonathan Small
- Thaddeus/Bartholomew Sholto
- Both Mary and the Sholto brothers inherited a share of the Agra Treasure
- '"I instantly communicated with Miss Morstan, and it only remains for us to drive out to Norwood and demand our share."'
- Bartholomew is murdered over the treasure
- Mary Morstan
- Doctor Watson
- Watson and Mary lose the treasure but fall in love - riches of the heart are more important
- '"Whoever had lost a treasure, I knew that night that I had gained one."'
- Emotion vs
Rationality
- Sherlock Holmes
- '"You really are an automaton, -a calculating machine!"' - Watson
- '"...love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true, cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgement."' - Sherlock Holmes
- Watson
- '"You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism"' - Sherlock Holmes
- Holmes and Watson act as foils for each other