How Conan Doyle presents Dr Watson, and how the character develops across the text: the loyal narrator and army doctor who falls in love with Mary Morstan and is free to win her when the treasure is lost.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'my conscience swelled nightly within me', 'I could not tamper with the facts', 'I am not subject to impressions', 'my heart turned as heavy as lead within me', 'it would be a petty and selfish love', 'I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment', 'some radical flaw in my companion's reasoning', 'Because I love you, Mary, as truly as ever a man loved a woman'.
Watson as narrator: an army doctor wounded in Afghanistan, whose admiration for Holmes and love for Mary shape what the reader is told.
