Resumo de A Scandal In Bohemia Under "the Complete Short Stories Of Sherlock Holmes"

Sherlock Holmes the incomparable creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is quite baffling as a character.Lets find out how baffling he is with a close study of ?A Scandal in Bohemia.?Holmes is anti- establishment , and an anti -social conformist and very clearly his friend Watson calls him a Bohemian ?who loathed every form of society.? I am not interested in Holmes? keen intelligence and his most inhumanly perfect reasoning abilities, but in Watson?s statement ?admirably balanced mind.? Can Holmes be called a balanced creature, what with his regular use of artificial stimulants when not involved in a case and his abnormal interest in the dark side of human nature which culminates in an almost mirror- image encounter with Prof. Moriarty, Holmes can not in the least be called a balanced human being. Lets explore further his abhorrence towards love. Watson admits that love could be considered dangerous for Holmes since any such delicate distraction ?was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.? Of all human emotions the sustaining one is love and this supposedly balanced creature abhors love with all his being because he is scared, scared that if he at all fell in love his perfectly created bubble of mental reasoning might burst and Watson critically admits ?as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.?And this is exactly what happens or threatens to happen to Holmes(for Watson could not be expected to be a psychoanalyst or lets say at least a perfect one ,and hence Watson?s assurance ?It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler? could not be accepted at face value. Freud would have been better in his place) but since Freud is not present ,there are some pretty staring instances where Holmes is seen falling for Irene Adler . The first one being ?Oh , she has turned all the men?s heads down in that part.? Now why in the world would Holmes, the cold , calculating machine blurt out this information if not even faintly Irene had at last opened the closed chambers of Holmes? libido. Why indeed the hunter for precise facts and master of deductive reasoning would believe the words of commoners far below his level of intelligence. We could even go as far as saying that his imagination was fired by the word ?adventuress? when Irene was being described by the king of Bohemia initially as he was placing his case. And the most cruel and telling evidence is the honest confession ?but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for.? And by this time we all know that Holmes is but just a Son of man.Then comes the most intriguing battle of wits and literally too where Holmes and Irene employ their natural intelligence to outbid the other and the defeated one is Holmes and most predictably so. But more interesting is the statement used by Holmes in asserting his intellectual superiority ?I will get her to show me.? It of course relates to the photographs. But on a closer inspection, the statement is unfinished ?I will get her to show me, what?- it is almost painfully obvious in its sexual suggestion.But, for Holmes , if at all he admits, sexual attraction is strongly related to intelligence and Irene has a face that ?a man would die for? ( mind that, the statement is used by Holmes) because she has enough wit to confound Holmes and his so called rational intelligence. Lastly, and most importantly why does he not pursue his newly aroused emotion ,is because, as Freud would have said the man?s unnatural adherence to the death instinct. ( 627 words )

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