The emergence of female detectives
The emergence of female detectives
When I first know about female detectives, no name appeared in my mind. In mymemory, the only detective I have impression of is Sherlock Holmes. Of course, everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. One famous TV show “Sherlock Holmes” shows how Sherlock Holmes smart and using his wisdomto resolve incident.Since the end of the 19th century, there has been a surge of female detectives. Because of novelty and dramatic effects. The most unlikely people become detectives, not the culprits. To prove that a non-traditional detection method emerged. And because the nose is usually considered feminine. Added that the creation of female detectives also marks an attempt to attract female readers to read crime stories directed at women. (Cavallaro)Whether in literature or film and television dramas, female detective roles appear later than men. Creators from various countries have worked hard for a long time. Women’s investigative skills are often significantly different from those of those people. Adrienne Gavin explained that male peers because they use “knowledge and observation of family environment and human behavior, female intuition, and their ability to be ignored or underestimated” male-dominated Check the environment (258). In fact, as early as 1929, Dorothy Sayers famously complained about female creators. Detectives described them as “very annoying intuitions that destroy the kind of quiet enjoyment of logic that readers of crime fiction expect. This is also a male and female respectively.(Cavallaro)But it is precisely this, so female detectives are more attractive than ordinary detectives in certain aspects.
Mystery novels have a mystery-solving story, which to a large extent expresses the idea of maintaining the rule of law. Pure reasoning certainly exists, but if reasoning is not used to detect crimes, the novel will be more difficult to attract. Readers.Since it is to solve the case, it must be based on law to determine the right and wrong. Mystery novels do not promote pure crimes but are based on certain laws and the common view of right and wrong of mankind and bring bad people to justice. Justice can be done, and the feelings that readers agree with can be vented. Therefore, mystery is a work that safeguards the rule of law, and this is one of its characteristics.
For me, detective media is entertaining and entertaining the readers such as Sherlock. Because the plot of the detective media is interesting and suspenseful, it can attract people to watch. And it is intellectual, it can Providing readers with some knowledge, including scientific knowledge of solving crimes and social knowledge, can help us understand society. It is enlightening. Detective media enlighten readers’ thinking methods. If the reasoning is based on facts, you have to investigate and research, analyze the collected materials comprehensively, and find conclusions, so that you will not see the bottom line in a straight line when you look at the problem. , It depends on the pros and cons, or even more, it is helpful to activate our thinking methods and improve our thinking ability. Therefore, detectives are popular.
Female detectives are very prominent in this category, because it is very uncommon in the early days. It is generally believed that detectives must be performed by men. Therefore, the emergence of female detectives also makes the detective culture more distinctive. “Female detectives play a very good role in detective work, while in other areas, they are mainly in a state of inadequacy and imbalance in communication, social and emotional skills. Interestingly, she seemed to fail in social situations, mainly because she was unable to understand and fulfill the expected gender roles. Regarding the traditions and ongoing discussions in feminist film theories and homosexuality studies, one of the inevitable questions seems to be whether these female detectives are affected by their dissent and contradictory attitudes in women’s clothing because they are neither female nor male. Come. Represents the development of female images in movies.” (Schwartz) Men are Women have a different perspective when viewing things. Female detectives may see the truth of things from other aspects. This is also the difference between female detectives and male detectives.
The concept of a dysfunctional detective is certainly not a new phenomenon. The two most famous male detectives among the Nordic blacks, Kurt Volland and Martin Baker, are considered not only melancholic and depressed, but also facing challenges in their private lives. They both live alone after divorce, and they both have The problem has not yet been resolved with their adult children. They also tend to drink and smoke. They suffer from various lifestyle-related diseases (abdominal pain, diabetes, chronic cold, and finally Woz, Alzheimer’s disease). Traditional male detectives will actually act like these female detectives, feel and look like them, because they all seem to be maladjusted and suffer from different physical and mental illnesses. However, they also have one thing in common, that is, their manic work habits and the most advanced skills as a detective, which seems to be related to their inability to adapt to the social rules of society. The lifestyle diseases and manic working methods of male detectives are usually understood as, on the one hand, a symbolic manifestation of the defects and deficiencies of neoliberals. So the emergence of female detectives opposed this. (Schwartz)
One famous female detectiveJessica Fletcher. The book about her is quite famous call“Murder She Wrote: Murder in Red” Jessica Fletcher must review the first murder she solved to find a new killer. When high school student Kristi Powell interviewed Jessica for a series of questions about the former teacher of Cabot Cove High, she asked about her first real-life murder, and Jessica would not answer. But Kristi continues to promote the case, which occurred 25 years ago in the peaceful days when Jessica and her husband Frank were raising a nephew, and she was a substitute teacher in the nearby town of Appleton. An interview with this middle school revealed that Jessica’s interviewer was a liar and was shot to death shortly afterwards. The deceased’s pseudonym Kristi Powell was finally identified as 33-year-old Ginny Genaway. His divorced father Walter Reavis was the principal of high school. The murder initially turned Jessica from a teacher into a detective mystery writer. Ginny had an older sister, Lisa Joy, who had already left the area, and a brother was killed while serving in the Middle East. From the day Jessica helped the local law solve the Walter murder case, the invitation of former compatriot Wilma Tisdale to the retirement party brought back memories. Now she is eager to help Sheriff Mott Metzger. Ginny’s husband is also an imprisoned mob boss, and he sent some accomplices to Cabot Cove, just in case Jessica needs help. Jessica slowly revealed the details of how to resolve the earlier case and who was involved, thus clarifying the current case, some of whom are the same person. It was discovered that Ginny’s mother lived in a lighthouse in an area, and Lisa Joy may or may not die in the accident. Want to know who targeted the Revis family, Jessica has ample opportunity to reflect on her legend. The nostalgic portrait of the past illuminates a tricky case, one of the best of the heroine. (Fletcher)
I think the biggest feature of female detectives is that they break the cold and stereotyped image of male detectives. They are vivid and a bit warmer. “The differences between traditional male detectives and new female detectives have not been discovered because of their specific characteristics or stereotyped detective lifestyle. In this respect, female detectives are like male detectives, but mainly through their gaze with the audience. The difference between the links.” (Schwartz) With the development and progress of society, especially in the late twentieth century, women’s desire for fair rights and participation in social affairs has become stronger and stronger. Occupation shifted to male occupations. Therefore, in the subsequent inference works, there are more and more female detectives, whose images are independent and unrestrained modern women.
