I really enjoyed listening to today's presentations on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and examining the correlation between text and image. It is very obvious to me that every single image that was discussed in class today represents fin-de-siècle ideologies of the late nineteenth century such as issues surrounding imperialism, race, gender, and classism. The illustrator of the text, Sydney Paget, did a great job in thoughtfully choosing the best scenes to illustrate in a way that deepens our understanding of the text while at the same time, creating meaning that is separate from the text. My favourite illustration of the presentations was "At the foot of the stairs she met this Lascar scoundrel" in The Man With The Twisted Lip. I enjoyed this illustration of the East-Asian man blocking the woman's entrance to the opium den because I feel it demonstrates a key ideology of the late 19th century, and that was the fear of the '"other," resulting from Britain's ambitious colonial conquests. While many British people were fascinated with the "exotic" and people from their faraway colonies, there was also a fear of these people coming home to the center of Britain and contaminating the motherland. This fear of the racialized other is present in many key texts of the time such as Jane Eyre through Bertha Mason and Jekyll and Hyde with the racialized depiction of Jekyll. In both of those texts, the racialized other is depicted as violent, primitive, and menacing, which rings true for this illustration. In this image, the opium den owner is depicted as heavily racialized and seems to be grabbing the women in a violent way. The image is so violent that it seems as if the man is seconds away from throwing the women to the ground. The fact that this racialized man owns an opium den, is also significant. Opium has roots in East Asia and the fact that opium addiction was a common problem at the time highlights how the racialized man in the image had already come to the motherland to infect British citizens, such as this woman's husband who is in the opium den. The fear and fascination of British imperialism have always been a fascinating fin-de-siècle Victorian ideology in my opinion. I am excited to continue the presentations throughout the remainder of the semester to study other ideologies present in other late-nineteenth-century works.