Greed and treasure

How Conan Doyle explores greed and the Agra treasure, which harms everyone who holds it 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: 'the treasure, half at least of which should have been hers', 'He computes the value of the jewels at not less than half a million sterling', 'the box which had been the cause of his ill-doings', 'to me it has meant slavery for life', 'It was blinding to look upon them', 'how many fellows in my shoes would have refused a share of this loot', 'I have brought you a fortune'.
The treasure's journey from a rajah's hoard to the bottom of the Thames, and what it costs everyone who holds it.

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