" A Scandal in Bohemia " Analysis DOC

Title	" A Scandal in Bohemia " Analysis
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Kitipong Metharattanakorn “A Scandal in Bohemia” Analysis Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia” was the first of 56 short stories written to be published in The Strand Magazine. It was first published in July 1891 in the issue of the magazine, and the following year, was the first of the s...

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Kitipong Metharattanakorn "A Scandal in Bohemia" Analysis Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Scandal in Bohemia" was the first of 56 short stories written to be published in The Strand Magazine. It was first published in July 1891 in the issue of the magazine, and the following year, was the first of the stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1892. 1 The story begins when Sherlock Holmes is hired by the king of Bohemia to solve the case of an opera singer Irene Adler. She is the king's former mistress who holds a photograph of the king and her. Holmes' mission is to find the photograph before she is going to expose it to blackmail the king in three days. "A Scandal in Bohemia" is undoubtedly a detective short story. Therefore, the exposition of the story effectively corresponds to the main theme of detective in which it first raises reader's suspense instead of telling the chronological story. According to Watson's narrative, Irene Adler is only woman who can disturb Holmes' stable mind and cannot be forgotten. This exposition allows the reader to partly play detective throughout the whole story and to figure out the reasons why Irene Adler becomes a woman whom Holmes cannot get rid of his mind. In "A Scandal in Bohemia", the major theme focuses on the characters' disguise in order to get some achievements and survive. For example, the desperate king of Bohemia disguises himself as Count von Kramm when he comes to see and asks Holmes for help. He pretends that he is the representative of the king of Bohemia because he is shameful and embarrassed of his scandalous deed with an opera singer Irene Adler. Also, Holmes the detective has "amazing powers in the use of disguises" (p.130). He disguises as "a drunken- looking groom" (p.13) so that he learns that Irene has a love affair with Godfrey Norton, and they are going to be married. Also, he pretends to be a clergyman and enter Irene's house so 1 Letterpile, "A Scandal in Bohemia," Letterpile, https://letterpile.com/books/Plot-Summary- of-a-Scandal-in-Bohemia (accessed October 26, 2016)....