The Sign Of Four Sparknotes

"Exotic Familiarity: Returned Anglo-Indians and the Representation of National Identity in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four" by Agnieszka Jasnowska is relative to The Sign of Four by relating it to the fears the British had of foreign customs corrupting their own. Agnieszka Jasnowska's argument is agreeable because The Sign of Four played off the fears the British had about foreign customs making its way into their political systems and causing changes to their own established customs. Several of the characters were influenced by foreign customs and this drove the story forward because that's what it was geared towards. The school I think the author wrote from is Post-Colonial Criticism because The Sign of Four was written from an
Next, she talks about the suburban villa and how Major Sholto wanted his privacy because he was paranoid about his treasure being stolen. At the time The Sign of Four was written, the suburbs was a place known for intricate houses that had many secrets to them that people on the outside could or could not know about as well as the houses occupants. Major Sholto's home turned out to be a prison to him because of his fear and anxiety of his treasure being taken. He couldn't be sure that he was completely safe in his own home because of secret passages that he may not know about, similar to those of the real world Conan-Doyle was living in. Such was the case of how his son, Bartholomew, was killed by a secret passage where Tonga hid and used a blow-pipe to shoot a poisoned thorn into his neck. The third part Jasnowska talks about is suburban orientalism and how Conan Doyle brought this into his story The Sign of Four. In Conan Doyle's time, they were heavily concerned with foreign influence coming in and changing their customs. The people thought that those foreign customs were kept out of their cities. However, in The Sign of Four,