The Victorian Era’s deep fascination with mystery and thrilling deception was one of the topics that has really resonated with me over the course of our semester. The class was fortunate enough to see these themes first hand during our tour of the Sherlock Holmes Museum and during the experience we did as well. This picture of the Sherlock Holmes statue was taken just outside of the exhibit, representing a figure whose history in Victorian age literature perfectly resembles the art of mystery and deception.
Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes series, manipulated the fascinations of mystery and deception during the Victorian Area. Within Doyle’s short story, A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes is tasked by a German king to use his skills to trick a woman who has an important document which the King desperately wants. The woman ends up outsmarting Sherlock and manipulating his ego to her advantage. During the Victorian Area it was unheard of for a woman to be so manipulative and outsmart such a prominent figure. This piece was really before its time, which generated such fascination from people. The thrilling mystery in each Sherlock Holmes story mixed with such an unheard of deception really made Doyle's work so well known.
During the Holmes experience this victorian age thrill was brought to life, as the class was put into a Sherlock Holmes mystery experience. The reason the concept of mystery was so prominent during the Victorian Age and still is today is because it has an addictive aspect to it. People were fascinated with Doyle's work because he always had his readers questioning the piece and searching for more. He created a discussion which caused a massive following for his work. The Victorian ages's fascination with unpredictable mysteries followed by an unimaginable sequence of events has carried into present day as we see current media giants like Netflix and HBO continue to produce work which hold these qualities.
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