The Sign of Four - Chapter 4

English Literature

GCSE

AQA

13m 41s
The title of the chapter is 'The Story of the Bald-Headed Man'. This promise of a story is also a promise of revelation, and encourages us to read on and it is in this chapter that we meet Thaddeus Sholto. The podcast looks at West versus East, orientalism and wealth and poverty. It also reveals that the potential romance between Watson and Mary is doomed in the eyes of Watson as he is from the wrong class as an upper class lady in unattainable.

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Alex Blott

Alexandra Campbell

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