AN ANALYZE SHORT STORY THE ADVENTURE OF THE BRUCE PARTINGTON PLANS - MEIRA SAPRILA SALMA

ANALYZE A SHORT STORY THE ADVENTURE OF THE BRUCE PARTINGTON PLANS
BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

    Arthur Conan Doyle, in full Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotland—died July 7, 1930, Crowborough, Sussex, England), Scottish writer best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes—one of the most vivid and enduring characters in English fiction. The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (BRUC) is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Strand Magazine in december 1908. This is the 42nd Sherlock Holmes story.

• PLOT SUMMARY

One morning in November 1895, Sherlock Holmes is very surprised to receive a visit from his brother Mycroft, bringing him the case of Arthur Cadogan West. West was a civil servant found dead on subway tracks at Aldgate, with plans of a top secret submarine plans on his person. According to Mycroft, the plans were kept in a safe whose keys are held by men considered to be above suspicion: Sir James Walter and Sidney Johnson. Arthur Cadogan West was known as a serious employee, and Johnson's deputy. It is believed he stole plans to sell them and was killed during the transaction. But Holmes wonders why Cadogan West had stolen the plans while he could copy them.
Visiting the crime scene, Holmes deduces that the body fell from the roof of a subway car. He decides to pay a visit to Sir James, but only meets Sir James' brother, Colonel Valentine Walter, as Sir James has just died, stunned by the dishonor. Holmes and Watson then visit Cadogan West's fiancée, who informs him that the young man left her without explanation on the way to the theatre the night of the murder.
Holmes asks his brother which foreign agents are likely to have been interested in buying the plans. One of them, Hugo Oberstein, attracts Holmes' interest because his house has windows that overlook a railway. Accompanied by Watson, Holmes breaks into Oberstein's home and discovers traces of blood and an envelope of messages clipped from the Daily Telegraph's agony column referring to the transaction. Holmes then places an ad in the same newspaper to make an appointment with Oberstein's accomplice. Colonel Valentine Walter, brother of Sir James responds to the ad and is arrested. He admits that, pressed by debt, he stole the safe's keys and contacted Oberstein. Cadogan West, on the way to the theater, saw Colonel Walter enter the offices and followed him to the Oberstein's house. The spy killed the young man and threw his body on the roof of a train car, putting the less important pages of the plans in his pockets so that he will be believed to be the thief.
Holmes asks Colonel Walter, guilt ridden, to write to Oberstein requesting an appointment. The latter comes to the rendez-vous and is arrested. The Bruce-Partington plans are therefore found before being sold to a foreign power; as a result, Holmes returned from a day at Windsor a few weeks later with a fine emerald tie-pin.

• CONFLICT

SOCIAL CONFLICT
the social conflict that occurs in this short story is a social conflict between humans and their environment, where when the main characters are Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson was trapped in his apartment due to the conditions outside which were shrouded in thick fog for the past few days. thus making them feel bored and unable to go out to investigate an important case. 

• CHARACTERS

- SHERLOCK HOLMES
describes himself initially as "a consulting detective, the only one in the world", helping out Scotland Yard when they are out of their depth with cases (usually homicides). He appears as a tall, thin man with dark, curly hair. Like the original character, Sherlock is highly intelligent and able to deduce or abduce information from the small details.

- Dr. JOHN WATSON
is Sherlock's best friend. He is often a foil to Sherlock in both appearance and personality. Unlike Sherlock, John is short with blond hair. He is friendly, compassionate, and patient, compared to Sherlock's aloof, cold-hearted tendencies. He gets on better with the police and takes care of practical matters at their flat, apparently doing most of the shopping.

- D.I GREG LESTRADE
He works for Scotland Yard. He has a reluctant respect for Sherlock and often defends him from the other police officers' animosity. He is often frustrated by Sherlock's cryptic deductions and habit of withholding evidence, but believes that he is a great man (hoping that one day, he can overcome his poorer qualities, and become a "good" man).

- MYCROFT HOLMES
He is Sherlock's older brother and engages in sibling rivalry with Sherlock. Mycroft is frequently mocked by Sherlock for "putting on weight". He occupies a "minor position in the British government"; however, as with many Holmes-based works, it is heavily hinted that he has a much bigger role than he claims – on one occasion, Sherlock sarcastically remarks that Mycroft is the British government "when he's not too busy being the British Secret Services, or the CIA on a freelance basis".

- ARTHUR CADOGAN WEST
He was a junior clerk at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. In 1895 he was found dead on the London Underground in possession of stolen top-secret submarine schematics.

- SIR JAMES WALTER
He was a renowned expert and civil servant in the employ of the British government. He was regarded as unfailingly patriotic and well-respected, and as a result was appointed as the official guardian of the top-secret Bruce-Partington submarine plans.

- COLONEL VALENTINE WALTER
He is a younger brother of Sir James Walter. A very tall, handsome, light bearded man of fifty.

- HUGO OBSERTEIN
was a German spy living in London, and one of the three most effective foreign agents in Britain according to Sherlock Holmes. He is also a murder of Cadogan West.

• SETTINGS

- SETTING OF PLACE
The setting of the place in the short story is London, here is the setting that became the place for the events in the short story the adventure of the bruce partington plans.

BAKER STREET
Baker street is one of the place in the short story. Baker Street is the neighborhood where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson live.

WOOLWICH ARSENAL
Woolwich Arsenal is the office where Cadogan West, Sir James Walter and Mycroft work.

ALDGATE STATION
Aldgate Station is the place where Cadogan West's body was found.

WOOLWICH THEATRE
Woolwich Theatre was the last place where Cadogan West was visited before he was found dead.

HOTEL DU LOUVRE, PARIS
Hôtel du Louvre, Paris was Obsertein's escape when he killed Cadogan west.

GOLDINI'S RESTAURANT, GLOUCESTER ROAD, KESINGTON
The garish Italian restaurant where Holmes dined during the investigation and arranged for Watson to join him with various burglary tools.

13 CAULFIELD GARDENS, KENSINGTON
This place is the residence of Hugo Obsertein.