As I keep reading Sherlock Holmes
for my example of sidekick figure, which is dr. John Watson, I realize that the
narrator, which is Watson itself, using the word ‘I’ that refers to himself.
The contradiction is between Spivak’s Can
the Subaltern Speak? and Belsey’s The
Subject in Ideology of Constructing
the Subject: Deconstructing the Text. I was thinking that positioning a
figure as an object makes the figure submissive. However, the using of ‘I’ by
Watson shows that this character is subject of this text, which should make
Watson’s figure dominant.
Nevertheless, although the using of
I shows that Watson is the subject, Watson is still the weaker figure. Belsey’s
The Case of Sherlock Holmes in Constructing the Subject: Deconstructing the
Text will be the text that I will talk to for this argument.
I also interested in Watson’s
desire of woman compared to the misogynist side of Sherlock Holmes that (for me)
the desire shows the humanity characteristic of Watson. The strange
characteristic of Sherlock Holmes, which does not have as much desire of woman
as Watson, maybe emphasizes its hero side. As in many superhero story like Superman,
Batman, and Daredevil, the superhero has the factor that differentiate them
from human, the strange characteristic of Holmes shows that he’s not really has
the characteristic of human, specifically man, that has desire of woman.
And what’s the signification of
woman? Is the woman, “as an object or as a subject of insurgency” has the role
in developing the text? Beside all
of that, I want to know why the sidekick is created. If a hero is intended to
be a great figure, why would he or she need a sidekick? Why he or she did not
work alone? Is it actually intended to prove that a hero is not that great
without the sidekick?
That is the outline, but I’m not
really sure I only talk about that in my paper. Maybe when I write, I will find
any intertextuality of many texts that has been studied in Critical Theory
class that will be helpful in developing this paper.
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