{"id":765,"date":"2017-09-28T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=765"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:44:27","slug":"homosocial-relationships-when-looking-through-a-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/28\/homosocial-relationships-when-looking-through-a-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Homosocial Relationships When Looking Through a Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI will not bias your mind by suggesting theories or suspicions, Watson\u2026 I wish you simply to report facts in the fullest possible manner to me, and you can leave me to do the theorizing.\u201d (pg. 53)<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Hounds of the Baskervilles<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret <\/span><\/i>are both starkly different novels. For instance, there is a significantly less amount of women in the previous. However, both novels do have a strikingly similar thing in common: when reading the <\/span>Hounds of the Baskervilles<\/span><\/i> though a lends of <\/span>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/span><\/i>, one is able to see a dominant homosocial power exerted in both novels. <\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/span><\/i>, there is a significant homosocial relationsip between George Talboys and Robert Audley. While at a surface\u2019s glance Robert and George seem to be on an equal status, there is evidence throughout the novel that proves that their homosocial relationship is slightly unbalanced. Even though Robert has his own setbacks, he is seen as a parental figure to George, whether it is longing to care for him again or constantly being on the lookout to make sure he is okay. <\/span><\/p>\n

While there is no sexual power present between Holmes and Watson, there is defenitely a homosocial relationship where Holmes is slightly more autoriative. While both rely on each other heavily, Holmes still tends to be slighltly more condescending towards Watson. Holmes is able to work with Watson as long as Watson does not crack the case himself; that is why Holmes tells Watson to only report the bare facts and nothing else. Earlier in the passage, it mentions that Holmes is almost \u201cparenting\u201d Watson, as if Watson is still learning from Holmes. It is mentioned earlier in the passage that Holmes said this to Watson as some \u201cparental advice\u201d, almost as if Watson is being trained, or \u201craised\u201d by Holmes. <\/span><\/p>\n

In conclusion, when looking at <\/span>Hound of the Baskervilles<\/span><\/i> through the lens of <\/span>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/span><\/i>, there are some strinking similarities that can be pulled from the two novels. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI will not bias your mind by suggesting theories or suspicions, Watson\u2026 I wish you simply to report facts in the fullest possible manner to me, and you can leave me to do the theorizing.\u201d (pg. 53)   The Hounds of the Baskervilles and Lady Audley\u2019s Secret are both starkly different novels. For instance, there … Continue reading Homosocial Relationships When Looking Through a Lens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}