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Conventional women of middle class, associates her with typical nature- mary morstan

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‘You are certainly a model client’

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Watson is in love with mary morstan

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‘I endeavoured to cheer and amuse her’

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Althenely jones is more focused on status rather than trusting holmes to complete the task

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‘My professional credit is at sake’

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Sublty mocking holmes due to his theories juxtaposing his ‘facts’

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‘Stern facts here- no room for theories’

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Patriarchal society see women as ‘perfect’

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‘Her self-control was perfect’

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Drugs stimulate urge to solve mysteries and heighten his intelligence ‘morphine and cocaine’

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‘My mind… rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work’

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To comparison to a calculator, which is typically correct, hints at intelligence

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‘You really are an automaten- a calculating machine.’

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Lived to serve revenge against major sholto for stealing the treasures

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‘From the day i lived only for vengeance’

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Demonstrates his knowledge as an ‘unofficial consulting detective’

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‘I only require a few missing links to have an entirely connected case’

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Jonathon small as an angry man

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‘A terrible expression when moved to anger’

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Highlights theme of justice, justifys the title of the novella as the author leaves us with a significant message

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‘We should each always act for all’

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Evil personified, racist views in victorian england, respectable first person narrator seen as convention

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‘Features so deeply marked with all beastiality’

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Seen as docile because mary morstan is female

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‘She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve’

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Thaddeus sholto welcoming holmes, watson and morstan into his home

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‘Pray step into my little sanctum… an oasis of art in the howling desert of south London’

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Thaddeus willing to share with morstan

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‘We had plenty of money ourselves. I desired no more’

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No solid evidence, nor facts implying he unprofessional work

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‘Its sherlock holmes, the theorist’

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Need for work

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‘I crave mental exaltation’