How Conan Doyle presents The Sholtos, and how the character develops across the text: Major Sholto's greed, guilt and fear, and his twin sons, the nervous, kindly Thaddeus and the murdered Bartholomew.
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: 'The mere feeling of possession has been so dear to me', 'so blind and foolish a thing is avarice', 'a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs', 'I have a natural shrinking from all forms of rough materialism', 'I find my hookah an invaluable sedative', 'my brother was himself a little inclined to my father's fault', 'his eyes were shining with excitement and greed', 'The villain Sholto', 'It was too much that he should be taken to the grave without some token from the men whom he had robbed and befooled'.
Major Sholto's broken bargain as the root of the crimes, and the twins as a contrast between Thaddeus's generosity and Bartholomew's wish to keep the treasure.
