Crime and justice — AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Crime and justice
Themes
What you need to know
How Conan Doyle explores crime, the law and justice, and who has a right to the treasure across the text, and why it matters to the text's meaning.
Where it appears, the key quotations that show it, and different ways it can be interpreted.
Evidence from the beginning, middle and end of the text.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'something in the nature of an act of justice', 'A pretty justice!', 'we cannot tell how far justice may originally have been on your side', 'I would rather swing a score of times', 'He bore no grudge against Bartholomew Sholto', 'how badly I have myself been served by Major Sholto', 'I will have no truck with it', 'duty is duty'.
The law, Holmes's own judgement and Small's code: who is punished, who escapes, and who has a right to the treasure.
