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In The Sign of Four, the main characters Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes both resemble two different worlds, one that is emotional, alive and full of pleasure, and one that is dull and strongly focused on one’s duties. There seems to be an imaginary wall that separates these two polar characters, a wall alike to the one mentioned in Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall.” In both literary works, two individuals exist, each on opposite sides of the wall, to symbolize their different outlooks on life. On one side of the wall is the individual who seeks to live a three-dimensional lifestyle full of love, friendship, hardship, and deceit; on the other side is the individual who seeks only for duty and purpose in life--one that looks at life in a methodological and banal fashion.
The interaction of these two opposite worlds and the different ways that they perceive the world creates two distinct outlooks on life and brings about a huge paradox on the way life should be lived.
"Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same affect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fif
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th proposition of Euclid." (137) Sherlock Holmes is a very dull character and views life in a direct sense. He believes that the only purpose in life is to stimulate his mind with “brainwork.” And even when there is no work at hand, he must continue to stimulate his mind through the usage of cocaine. The neighbor in “Mending Wall” perceives life in the same direct fashion as Holmes. He wishes to live life in seclusion, without any human interaction and avoids any attempt at conversation with his neighbor, Frost. Both Frost and Watson perceive life oppositely. Both characters believe that there is more to life than work, and one should enjoy in other activities, as well as other people’s companies. Frost wishes to get rid of the wall that separates him and his neighbor. He even tries to persuade his neighbors thinking by telling him there is no need for a physical barrier because Frost has all apple trees on his land, and his neighbor has all pine. He even tries to break through the physical barrier with trust. “My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him."(25-26) Frost’s attempt at getting creating a solid relationship between him and his neighbor is ignored. His neighbor simply responds, "Good fences make good neighbors," (27)
Sherlock Holmes uses innovative and unique techniques in solving crime which helps to show that the traditional ways of encountering a problem are not always the best ways. In The Sign of Four, Holmes regards the police as a barrier in solving the mystery. He describes them as greedy men who fight crime only to be heroes in the face of the public, rather than fighting crime to do good for the people. Holmes is against the traditional “hero” and prefers to stay on the outside, and solve mysteries, and fight crime to help society rather than be the “hero.” He employs a different type of logic in a crime, and looks under the water to the bottommost tip of the iceberg. He places h
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Approximate Word count = 1338
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