For instance, in the "Adventure of the Second Stain," one of the Holmes stories collected in The Return of the Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective tells his faithful friend, Dr. John Watson, that "…the motives of women are inscrutable" (Doyle, 1045)
For instance, in the "Adventure of the Second Stain," one of the Holmes stories collected in The Return of the Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective tells his faithful friend, Dr. John Watson, that "…the motives of women are inscrutable" (Doyle, 1045)
Professor of English Lawrence Frank asserts that Holmes' misogyny - a reflection of Doyle's misogynistic impulses -- was related to the historical moment in which the character was created. According to Lawrence, Victorian England was embroiled in various controversies over the proper status of women; battles over issues regarding divorce law and the right of married women to control their property provoked debates about gender roles which in turn appeared in Victorian fiction (Frank, 54)
Moreover, the militancy associated with the women's suffrage movement in Great Britain (ranging from civil disobedience to bombings and arson) offended Doyle's conservative commitment to the status quo and earned his disdain. As Miller noted, Doyle opposed women's suffrage because "… he considered the suffragette movement [as] more likely to end in social chaos than equality for women" (Miller, 314)
According to Patteson, women are typically described as weak, cowardly, treacherous, and lascivious; at best they are helpless but harmless encumbrances but at worst they are villains. As Patteson notes, "One of the worst dangers frequently faced by the explorers is power in the hands of a woman" (Patteson, 5)
Moreau is a sustained critique of "civilized" men who pride themselves on their distance from the animals (and non-white colonial subjects) but are, in reality, nothing but animals in clothes. For instance, Edward Prendick asserts that, "An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie" (Wells, 225)
they institutionalize their illogic by way of the mutable Catch-22 and allow it, 'in the name of reason, patriotism, and rightness' to seize control of the men's lives" (Lupack, 1995:23). In effect, black humor is interpreted as a form of subversion -- a rebellion that seeks to not only criticizes and expose, but also abolish the military's propaganda and manner of handling conflicts (Henriksen, 1997:245)
. they institutionalize their illogic by way of the mutable Catch-22 and allow it, 'in the name of reason, patriotism, and rightness' to seize control of the men's lives" (Lupack, 1995:23)
He was really very sick. This passage brought into light the underlying 'principle' behind Catch-22: "a rule which allows you no way out, when another rule apparently does allow a way out" (Warburton, 2003:31)
Just before dying, Commander Root tells Holly, "Go and save Artemis. That's the last order I'll ever give you, Captain" (Colfer, 87)
"They each understood what the other was feeling. It was if, from then on, the two of them mourned together" (Flagg, 351)
Drawing allows him a momentary, albeit fantasy, escape from his reality: "I draw because I want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me" (Alexie, p
Their native country is polluting the earth and other world powers are considering going to war with them over the problem. Anderson does not give much hope for the characters, except for the knowledge that "everything must go," (Anderson, p
She nonetheless reflects on her human love for Mr. Rochester as she fears what he might do when he wakes to find her gone on the morning of her leaving his house: "Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment -- far worse than my abandonment -- how it goaded me! It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it further in" (Bronte 113)
Mellor notes that "in 1818 Victor Frankenstein possessed free will or the capacity for meaningful moral choice -- he could have abandoned his quest for the 'principle of life,' he could have cared for his creature, he could have protected Elizabeth. In 1831 such choice is denied him" (Macdonald, Scherf 39)
He recalls Milton's Paradise Lost and states, "I remembered Adam's supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him" (Shelley 156)