What Is The Difference Between Deep Water And The Case Of The Silk Stocking

In the stimulus extracted from Peter Corris’ Deep Water (pp. 49-53) and the film Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking, directed by Simon Cellan Jones, the detectives and the world of crime are represented through various language features and values. The characteristics of these detectives Cliff Hardy and Sherlock Holmes are developed and portrayed through these features.
Language in the Deep Water stimulus is used heavily to represent the wealth of Double Bay. This effect is obtained by the use of words with positive connotations in the second paragraph: for example, “suite of offices”, “heavy glass door” and “deep-carpeted staircase”. Cliff goes on to say that despite such extravagance crimes still happen. Setting is a very
A key value highlighted is that both detectives care not for class. Sherlock Holmes especially does not care for wealth; he demonstrates this when denying the Dukes exuberant offer of payment. Sherlock says “My professional charges are on a fixed scale; I do not vary them unless it is to remit them all together.” Sherlock does not care for money, and plays no favouritism because of it. Sherlock offers another insight into his values when he states, “Jack would be a gentleman once an’ if he could speak French.” Holmes attempts to show that the Duke – who is of the highest echelon of society – is not innately a gentleman. Holmes proposed that to be a gentleman you need not require wealth or status but be a good person. Cliff hardy shares similar values, in believing that no matter what class, or social standard you come from, crime will happen and it will happen over the same principle factors. “…Despite their money and/or their pretensions, their problems turned out to be much the same as peoples everywhere – deceit, greed, love, hate.” Both detectives value their work highly and Sherlock for instance is willing to go to great lengths to achieve results on a case. Sherlock does not care for the mental well-being of others as seen clearly when he forces Charles Allen to be face to face with Imogen to spark a reaction, and progress his case. Sherlock remarks – after being questioned about his actions – stating, “to my mind justified.” Cliff Hardy values his work as a detective too. He shows this in text when he says, “I was grateful to her for providing me with the chance to do the sort of thing I’d mostly done for more than twenty years.” Although he had done it for a long time, he had not grown tired of it and still loved working as a private detective. Horace Greenacre is another character developed through the Deep Water extract. Greenacre is a lawyer