A Study in Scarlet was the original Sherlock Holmes story, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in England in 1887. The story is divided into two parts. Part One ends with the case solved and the murderer caught in London; however, the first three chapters of Part Two mysteriously transport the audience decades into the past in Utah. This sudden change reveals that solving the facts of a mystery does not necessarily mean understanding the reasons behind them. Although Holmes bel

A Study in Scarlet was the original Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in England in 1887. Within the first five chapters of Part I, the audience is introduced to Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, Sherlock’s new roommate and associate. Doyle uses Sherlock’s character to reveal both the strengths and weaknesses of a highly specialized approach to knowledge, while also revealing how years of specialization have shaped Holmes’s psychological way of thinking.

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in England in 1885. The story showcases how a person’s immediate desires and life goals tend to contradict each other at times, often in wildly dark ways. But being a good person does not mean ignoring the monsters we face. Dr. Jekyll is a respected and pious English physician who despises his sinful desires and seeks to separate them from his respectable identity. Instead, he creates Mr. Hyde,

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in England in 1885. Within the first seven chapters of the story, the audience is introduced to four important characters: Dr. Jekyll, his old friends Dr. Lanyon and Dr. Utterson, and his new, unsavory acquaintance, Mr. Hyde. The relationship between Jekyll and Hyde raises a question that extends far beyond the story: how responsible are people for the things they allow into their lives?

G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, was an English writer. In 1901, he argued against a common view amongst the middle and upper-classes with his A Defense of Penny-Dreadfuls. The term penny dreadful is less often used today, replaced by terms like pulp fiction, trashy sensational page turners, guilty pleasure entertainment, or low brow fiction. Yet Chesterton felt a need to defend penny dreadfuls amongst his peers. It was common amongst the higher class, particularly philosop