The Sign Of Four: A Literary Analysis

Walking out into the unknown only clears up after help arrives. In How To Read Literature Like A Professor: for Kids, Foster states that the blind needs a rescuer. Foster’s point is proven through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and The Hound of the Baskervilles. In The Sign of Four, Sherlock Holmes is confronted with a past death and packages full of pearls sent to a woman named Ms. Morstan. Also, in The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle writes about a chain of murders to acclaim the wealth from the death of Sir Charles Baskerville. In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band," a step-father uses a speckled banded snake to coldly murder his step-daughters. Before all professional detective cases occurred
The truth can be hard to uncover at times, but when one incorporates another person, who is more knowledgeable on the topic, it is then that person can uncover the answer. As Foster proves that someone in the unknown must call in a figure to show them the path, which is also highlighted in all of Doyle’s nineteenth-century texts. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle clearly exemplifies how Holmes can highlight the flaws in eye-sight for other characters. Certainly, when Ms. Morstan comes to meet with Sherlock Holmes, she arrives with some baffling items that are incorporated with her strange experiences after her father’s death. Ms. Morstan had been receiving pearls for years after her father passed away, and has, “come to… Mr. Holmes…[since she] hardly [can] imagine anything more strange” than what she has experienced already (Doyle 105). Since Ms. Morstan has no clue on what to do with her situation she calls in Holmes. This then exemplifies how Ms. Morstan is rendered sightless by her inexperience in solving perplexing cases unlike Sherlock Holmes does on a daily basis. While Holmes solves the case in The Sign of Four his intelligence from finding out the clues and perpetrator reflects upon Ms. Morstan’s inability to
Death Cloud clearly decodes Holmes’s youth while he has just realized his talent in crime solving. Generally speaking, Holmes can identify the most unusual of things, he does exercise his talent one afternoon while walking through the woods. When Holmes is walking through the woods he stumbles upon a watcher, and even though he realizes that the person, “[had] ‘been watching [him]… for half an hour” (Lane 25). After a while of the person watching Holmes, Holmes then brings in his inner talent that specializes in solving crimes to really find out who the person is and how to get out of his soon to come predicament. With Sherlock’s ability to identify the unknown comes accomplishments through the time lapse of his career. Since Sherlock has a newfound expertise in crime solving he is using it when he needs assistance in his difficult situations. In this case, it would be Sherlock identifying the watcher to then be overly prideful and lose his ability to find out the unknown. Clearly, Sherlock Holmes gets too delighted with his accomplishments when Crowe complains to Holmes, which wastes Holmes’s time. Holmes is very ticked off by the amount of complaining Mr. Crowe is doing while, “he [has] better things to do with his time. If he [wants] to complain let him write to Mycroft” (Lane 66). Crowe’s actions reflect the intelligence of Sherlock Holmes since Crowe realizes that Holmes