UNIVERZA V MARIBORU FILOZOFSKA FAKULTETA ODDELEK ZA ANGLISTIKO IN AMERIKANISTIKO DIPLOMSKO DELO STANKA RADOVIĆ MARIBOR, 2013 UNIVERZA V MARIBORU FILOZOFSKA FAKULTETA ODDELEK ZA ANGLISTIKO IN AMERIKANISTIKO Stanka Radović PRIMERJALNA ANALIZA FILMA “IGRA SENC” IN KNJIGE “BASKERVILLSKI PES” Diplomsko delo Mentor: red. prof. dr. Victor Kennedy MARIBOR, 2013 UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR FACULTY OF ARTS DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES Stanka Radović A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF “A GAME OF SHADOWS” WITH THE BOOK “THE HOUND OF THE BASKERSVILLES” Diplomsko delo MENTOR: red. prof. dr. Victor Kennedy MARIBOR, 2013 I would like to thank my mentor, dr. Victor Kennedy for his support, help and expert advice on my diploma. I would like to thank my parents for their support, for all the sacrifices in their lives and for believing in me and being there for me all the time. POVZETEK RADOVIĆ, S.: Primerjalna analiza filma in knjige: A game of Shadow in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Diplomsko delo, Univerza v Mariboru, Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za anglistiko in amerikanistiko, 2013. V diplomski nalogi z naslovom Primerjalna analiza filma Igra senc in knjige Baskervillski pes je govora o deduktivnem načinu razmišljanja in o njegovem opazovanju, ki ga je v delih uporabljal Sherlock Holmes. Obravnavano je tudi vprašanje, zakaj je Sherlock Holmes še vedno tako priljubljen. Beseda teče tudi o življenju v viktorijanski Angliji. Osrednja tema diplomskega dela je primerjava filma in knjige. Predstavljene so vse podobnosti in razlike obeh del. Ključne besede: Sherlock Holmes, deduktivni način razmišljanja in opazovanja, viktorijanska Anglija ABSTRACT RADOVIĆ, S.: A Comparative analysis of “A Game of Shadow” with the book “The Hound of the Baskervilles”. Gradual thesis, University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts, Department of English and American studies, 2013. In diploma, A Comparative analysis of “A Game of Shadow” with the book “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, I wrote about the deductive way of reasoning and observation of Sherlock Holmes. I also tried to answer the question, why is Sherlock Holmes still so popular today. Sherlock Holmes wrote at the time of Victorian England. The main theme of diploma is the comparative analysis between the book and the movie. Presented are all differences and similarities between the movie and the book. Key words: Sherlock Holmes, deductive way of reasoning and observation, Victorian England INDEX 1. INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………1 2. LONDON IN LATE 19TH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY…………………….......................2 3. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE…………………………………………………..............5 4 .SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DOCTOR WATSON………………………………………6 5. SHERLOCK HOLMES REASONING, DEDUCTIVE VS. INDUCTIVE……………….13 6. SHERLOCK HOLMES AND FORENSIC SCIENCE……………………………………17 7. THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES………………………………………………..20 7.1 Inspiration for the story……………………………………………………….............21 7.2 Characters……………………………………………………………………………..21 7.3 Plot……………………………………………………………………………………23 7.4 Themes………………………………………………………………………..............24 7.5 Symbols……………………………………………………………………………….27 7.6 Setting………………………………………………………………………………...28 8. A GAME OF SHADOWS…………………………………………………………………29 8.1 Plot……………………………………………………………………………………30 8.2 Characters…………………………………………………………………………….32 8.3 Symbols………………………………………………………………………………33 9. CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………………………35 10.WORK CITED…………………………………………………………………………….38 1. INTRODUCTION There are many famous great detectives like Jessica Fletcher or Perry Mason, private investigators like Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poiroit, or police detectives like Columbo or Inspector Clouseau (Pink Panther). Sherlock Holmes is my favourite fictional detective. He is famous for many things; one of them is his deductive way of reasoning and his observation. More about his deduction I will write in the following pages. Also I will try to answer the question, why is Sherlock Holmes still so popular today. Who he was and why is he immortal. I will compare and analyse the Book and the Movie: The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Game of the Shadows. The movie is a modern version of Sherlock Holmes; I would say this is a Hollywood view of late Victorian England presented in the modern age. 1 2. LONDON IN THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURIES The first thing to understand about the Victorian age in England is that it was enormously long and that there were significant changes in almost every aspect of politics, law, economics and society. Furthermore, the texture of daily life, the physical and technological surroundings in which people lived, the patterns of their education and work and recreation and belief – were utterly transformed. In 1837, when 18 – year old Victoria became queen, the majority of England’s people lived in the countryside and relatively few of them ever travelled more than 10 miles from the place they were born. Goods and messages moved no faster than the horses that carried them. Most food was cooked over on the open fireplace. Little more than half of the population could read and write; children as young as five years of age worked long days underground in coal mines or tending dangerous machinery in factories. Political and legal power was entirely in the hands of small minority men who held property. Class was revealed in manners, speech, clothing, education and values. The classes lived in separate areas and observed different social customs, in everything from religion to courtship to the names and hours of their meals. In addition, Victorians believed that each class had its own standards, and people were expected to conform to the rules of their class. It was wrong, people thought, to behave like someone from a class above – or below – your own. In the strictest legal sense, England had only two classes’ aristocrats (who had inherited titles and land) and commoners (everyone else). Nevertheless, most Victorians understood that their society was three – tired. In broad terms, the working class (both men and women) did visible work. Their labor was physical and often dirty; it showed in their clothes and their hands they were paid a daily or weekly wage. Men of the middle classes did clean work that usually involved mental rather than physical effort. They earned a monthly or yearly salary. The elite or upper class did not work for money. They included the aristocracy and the landed gentry. Their income came from inherited land or investments. (Mitchell, 2009) Furthermore, I have found article about London in Victorian times and how was class at that time important. Crime was rife in the slums of London; prostitution, drug abuse and murder were commonplace. There was much poverty and ill health; poor people lived in cramped, dirty and squalid conditions. Smog caused by the factories weighted heavily on the city, creating a dark, dreary place. Inhabitants of London had more to fear from their city than an unhealthy environment. Barely thirty year before Doyle’s birth, was London a criminals paradise. Whole areas of the city were “owned” by criminal groups, and honest citizens hardly dared to walk through certain neighbourhood at night, even armed. In Victorian 2 England small towns were still structured on the feudal model that had prevailed for centuries. In general, a large manner house, such as Baskervilles Hall, dominated its village. (http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/history3.html, 16.6.2012) The Victorian society placed a strong value on professional and well-rounded scientists that were capable of making very rapid deductions to solve mysteries and to study and advance new medical breakthroughs. The Victorian age was filled with new discoveries and new notions and philosophies that changed England, Europe, and moreover, the world including: Darwin’s highly debated Theory of Evolution, Fleming’s discovery of Penicillin, the worldwide Industrial Revolution, and the invention of cars, telephones, and photography. These, among others, are just a fraction of occurrences during the Victorian era that will have forever changed the world. Holmes, in many ways, is also much like a scientist. He too uses forensic approaches in solving his various mysteries, in addition to using scientific tools, such as a convex lens. Holmes disentangles myths with his rather swift and hyper-logical intuitions, like many other scientists of the time, Darwin included. Class was important aspect of identity in Victorian London, if not the most important aspect. People seemed to define themselves almost exclusively by occupation and status. Everything the Victorian did every manner of dress or speech they affected was class-conscious. (http://outoftheashes.xanga.com/757421060/sherlock-holmes-and-victorian-culture, 16.6. 2012) The setting of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles began in London moved to Devonshire, Dartmoor and ended back in London. Devonshire is described in the novel, just like the London in the article above, a dark place, full of mysteries and dangerous to live. Probably this is how people saw Victorian England at that time. Victorian England was place, where crime happened every day like prostitution, drug abuse and murder. Even Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict. At that time police force was at their begging, even if they want to, some of the crimes that were committed where impossible or hard to solve. One example for is Jack the Ripper. People needed someone like Sherlock Holmes. He was probably for them not just private investigator, but someone who could stop the crime from happening. He was like hero; someone who could provide them a safer and better future. Science had much of value too, people wanted to know all about the new discoveries that they could learn. Class people belong to was important at that time, or wealth they had. In the novel, there is struggle for wealth and for a place in the society. Position of the woman was in that time to be seen and not heard, they were emotional rather that logical and weak. This presented the perfect 3 victim for Victorian gentlemen to use. That was the reason, why are in Sherlock Holmes stories or novels, women always a victim. This is the case in The Hound of the Baskervilles too.