![]() ![]() The book open before Watson’s middle could be interpreted as a visual metaphor for open legs. The rock has a particularly phallic shape (so much in detail that a glans is discernible) and starts from Watson’s middle. Watson is standing with an open book close to a rock. Holmes and Watson are strolling on the moor. This metaphor would fit with the theories which see Holmes as needing drugs to deal with his repressed romantic and sexual feelings for Watson. With the previous symbolism, being caught doing drugs can be considered analogous to the cliché of being caught while masturbating. ![]() ![]() Watson enters and catches Holmes doing drugs. Holmes moving a arm and hiding it under a blanket is reminiscent of moving an arm for masturbation and hiding it under a blanket to conceal a private act. ![]() Holmes moves his arms and then hides it under his blanket. Read the introductory entry for general information regarding the analysis and the literary devices explored: Romantic and sexual coding in Sherlock Holmes (1984).Īs a cylindric object which emits liquid, a syringe can be considered a phallic object. This entry is dedicated to the episode The Devil’s Foot. The following analysis is a study of the romantic and sexual coding present in the Granada adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, which run from 1984 to 1994. ![]()
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