Themes, Ideas and Messages GapFill

Key theme 1: Reason versus emotion. Sherlock Holmes and  Mrs HudsonTongaAthelney JonesDr Watson have one of the most famous friendships in English literature, but they have very different personalities. Whereas Holmes seems to lack emotion and is very  irrationalsensitiverationalunintelligent, Dr Watson is much more   sensitiveantisocialpowerfulunfriendly. Their differences are shown in their attitudes towards love and marriage. Watson falls in love with  Mrs HudsonTobyMrs BernstoneMary Morstan, but Holmes objects to Watson’s   marriagevacationdivorceholiday and says “I should never  separatego on honeymoonmarrygo on holiday myself”. Holmes also says “Love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold  reasonemotionsensitivitysensibility which I place above all things”. Key theme 2: Love. Dr Watson grows to love  Mrs Forrester Mary MorstanMrs BernstoneMrs Hudson. He admires Mary from their first meeting by describing her as   interestingboringdaintydull. At the end of the novel, Dr Watson tells Holmes that he is going to become   her butlerher loverher uncleher husband.