As we have discussed in class, mise-en-scene is all about what is staged and arranged in front of the camera: actors, props, setting, color, movement, costume, make-up, and more. Identify *three* significant, specific elements of mise-en-scene from the scene in SHERLOCK JR. (see link above). Then answer the following questions: 1) For each element you mention, write a little about its meaning, emotional impact, and significance to the story. 2) Discuss whether or not the film, *as a whole* (not just this one scene) appears to be controlled or uncontrolled in its use of mise en scene. If the total film is a mix of controlled and uncontrolled elements, state specifically which elements are controlled, and which are uncontrolled. (approx 500 words / 2 paragraphs)…
Larson uses imagery to contrast the “clangorous Chicago” to “Holmes’s claim of lordly heritage,” which illustrate an dark ominous events in Chicago. This contradicts to why someone so “charm and smooth manner” would live in a unpleasant city, where overpopulated people and distracting noises were strain daily. Though “so unusual” in a haunting environment, readers can make distinctive comparison between Holmes and the disappearance of people in Chicago. However people such as Emeline, ignored the minor and concentrate on Holmes’s “extraordinary” well being and nobility. Larson express Holmes from “an English heritage” to make readers visualize the generous side of Holmes, but also grasp the terrors he planned.…
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the content of the photograph causes problem for the king. In addition, Holmes’s reaction to the photograph creates suspense, and Doyle’s tone achieves this suspense. I believe the content of the photograph causes a problem for the king because the king will be married to Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the King of Scandinavia, and the photograph contains the picture of the king when he was still a prince and a woman named Irene Adler. “Threatens to send them the photograph.” Irene Adler threatens the king that she will send the photograph to Clotilde’s family that’s why the king is having a problem. Next, Holmes’s reaction to the photo creates suspense. “Oh, dear! That…
Based on the primary sources we read on class I think that England’s colonization in Virginia was overall successful. According to the narrative of Arthur Barlowe in 1584 you can see that the natives were very nice. Barlowe talks about trading with them and how the king always kept his promise and gave them food. “He sent us every day a brace or two of fat bucks, conies, hares, fish, the best of the world”. Barlowe describes the land as very plentiful he even says the natives got better oaks that they do on England. In this narrative the impression of the natives is friendly and very kind to the English. On the contrary there are two more narratives one from Thomas Harriot and one from John Smith that show a very different…
empire covered they were able to send goods to locations all over the world with…
The short stories, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” and “The Blanched Soldier,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are filled with adventurous investigations featuring the genius detective Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes and is his trustworthy assistant, Dr. Watson, investigate the problems that are brought to them by clients, Helen Stoner and Mr. James M. Dodd, whom both seek their help in coming up with solutions to their cases. In “the Adventure of the Speckled Band,” Helen Stoner, a desperate young woman, is in need of Holmes assistance to solve her sister’s murder case, as she believes her life may be in great danger with her stepfather being around. While in “The Blanched Soldier,” Mr. Dodd brings a case in which his good friend, Godfrey…
Citations: Reeve, Clara, and James Trainer. The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story;. London: Oxford U. P., 2003. Print.…
Greed surrounds every page of the novel of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Greed is a feeling that causes many people to act different, and causes fear that leads to murder. Greed will cause some to act unnormally.This novel; displays the effects of greed on Mr. Stapleton, and hugo baskerville by murder…
Main Idea: The industrialized nations conquered native lands in Africa, Asia/Pacific and Latin America and exploited these lands and the native people.…
Some people seem to thrive on figuring out the unknown, and I’m one of them. That, perhaps, is why I fell so immediately in love with Arthur Conan Doyle’s universe of Sherlock Holmes. Opening my first Holmes book, A Study in Scarlet, and becoming enthralled with the characters, the language, and the mystery, was a turning point in my life.…
To start with Arthur Conan Doyle born May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland to a prosperous, strict Irish-Catholic family. His parents, Charles Lamont Doyle and Mary Elizabeth Foley Doyle, Charles and Mary married in1855. Born into an immense family of seven sisters and one brother, however, some of his siblings did not live to adulthood. Young Doyle's childhood was atrocious, of course, there were some superb moments in his childhood. Doyle's father a moderately successful artist, struggled with dipsomania, as well as depression, consequently, his father's grievous ordeal with dipsomania was detrimental to the family. As a result in1864, the children lived in other homes throughout Edinburgh, but a more joyful time came in1867, when the family…
During the Victorian era, the British Empire thrived as the most powerful imperial force in the world. It was a time of great change: in addition to continued expansion of the empire, there were also many advances in science, as well as the start of an industrial revolution. According to Eric Hobsbawm, there are three primary demands a state makes in terms of public art and architecture: “the first is to glorify power itself, which in the European context usually involved the construction of victory arches and columns on the Roman model; the second is the organisation of art as a public drama, by means of ceremonial avenues and spaces designed for spectacular performances; the third is to use art in the service of education or propaganda.”(Driver, Gilbert). One area in London…
Sherlock Holmes in himself is already a complex entity which symbolically reveals dualism quite well in his alternate role as Professor Moriarty. This insight reveals the contrast between good and evil, and the borderland in many ways tests the bounds of morality to constitute what is right or just and what is considered…
In examining the Hastings case, Dirks scores many points, vaporizing comforting visions of a kind empire, and he expertly falls apart/untangles the difficult things about Burke, too often (made fun of) as a reactionary.The (shameful and disgraceful act or situation) of Empire return to the early history of British Rule in India to tell about a (big list of items) of (dishonest actions that ruin your trust) and destroy, at shocking and terrible human cost, yet laundered through terrible and shocking very told untrue stories of (related to kings, queens, emperors, etc.) (not doing things you want to do so you can help…
“The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes was not guilty of killing Dr. Roylott. He was hired to protect Helen Stoner not to kill Dr. Roylott. Sherlock did not intend for Dr. Roylott to die, he was only protecting himself from the Swamp Adder. Sherlock Holmes could not possibly predict the outcome of Dr. Roylott’s demise. He had no way of knowing that the snake would bite Dr. Roylott.…