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GCSE English Literature · key term
A feeling, such as love, fear or anger, that can influence a person’s thoughts and actions.
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Paper 1
Revise: Reason and emotionWhen the search stalls in Chapter 9, he paces, cannot sleep and becomes irritable. His reaction suggests that intellectual work itself can become an absorbing passion. These moments complicate any claim that his excellence depends on having no emotions.
Distinguish Holmes’s claims about emotion from Conan Doyle’s presentation of him: the detective’s opinion is not automatically the novel’s message.
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