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    The Sherlock Holmes in the parallel worlds The concept of parallel universe states that the same person in these universe will hold different personalities‚ or to certain extent‚ different fates. The book The Sign of Four‚ The Adventure of the Empty House and the BBC TV series‚ The Empty Hearse‚ are just like parallel worlds for Sherlock. In these worlds‚ the differences can be best illustrate through his hobbies and his masculinity portrayals. Though‚ one could argue that the time setting in these

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    Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia‚ Sherlock Holmes uses his famous reasoning abilities to read a woman in order to solve a problem. After all‚ according to Holmes a woman’s emotions always give her away‚ making it easy for him to find Irene Adler’s hidden photograph. The apparently rational assumptions about women lead Sherlock Holmes to overconfidently use those generalizations in his reasoning to find the photograph. Theatricality is the main tool used by men in this story‚ and in their seemingly flawless

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    of Sherlock Holmes” As a detectiveSherlock Holmes is widely known to the world. As even Holmes becomes a synonym for the brilliant detectives in our daily life. The prototype for the modern mastermind detectiveHolmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet‚” published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887. As the world first and only “consulting detective‚” he pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London‚ the south of England‚ and continental Europe. Holmes made

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    Sherlock Holmes is a very strange man. He is a detective who can solve a mystery without even seeing what seems to be like too much evidence. His ethics are very interesting. He believes that murder cases turn out to have very complex ways of happening. He does not believe in the solar system‚ which the narrator thought was very weird. His decision to join the case to help was a just decision‚ because without him the case wouldn’t have been solved correctly. Holmes seems to always stick with his

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    (terse‚ often paradoxical‚ sayings or catch−phrases). To others it is a penetratingly humorous and insightful social comedy. When Earnest opened‚ Wilde was already familiar to readers for Dorian Gray‚ as well as for collections of fairy tales‚ stories‚ and literary criticism. Theatre−goers knew him for his earlier dramatic works‚ including three previous successes‚ Lady Windermere ’s Fan (1892)‚ A Women of

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    Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes is one of‚ if not‚ the most iconic literary character ever in text due to the fact that this character has been adapted and recreated from the original texts by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to films‚ stage plays‚ television series’ etc. The first text to be printed was in 1887 but due to Sherlock Holmes signature key elements‚ he has been endured enough to stay relevant to this very day. Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by British author‚ Sir Arthur Conan

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    The film of Sherlock Holmes is an open mystery--which means the identity of the perpetrator is already released in the beginning of the movie and it also display the “perfect crime” of the perpetrator throughout the movie. We can tell that is a open mystery because the first scene of the movie is where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are trying to prevent a black magic ritual that is run by Lord Blackwood. The police immediately arrested Lord Blackwood then few months later he got sentenced to death

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    London’s Weather Through Sherlock Holmes In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories of Detective Sherlock Holmes‚ the city of London itself is an important character and has a very active role. The city interferes constantly with the story and places itself dominantly in the novels. It is important to note how the city of London is represented and what kind of role it plays in the tales of Detective Holmes. Looking into how the city not only seems to create its own crime‚ but how Holmes uses the city to solve

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    Wong 10-20-10 Betz Period 5 Sherlock Holmes: 1930-Present Sherlock Holmes‚ originally casted with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in the 1930’s‚ has been a classic since it first came out. Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce starred in three movies: The Hound Of The Baskervilles‚ Terror By Night‚ and The Women In Green. These were the three original films created in the late 1930’s and mid 1940’s. As years passes‚ new directors decided to create their own Sherlock Holmes film with a new cast. In 1979

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    reveals the true nature of the characters detective Sherlock Holmes and the psychologist Sigmund Freud. Although‚ both of the characters shared similarities and differences in their professional methods that they used in their career‚ the two characters were both monumental figures that changed the human history through their brilliance in work. First‚ there are many similarities between the characters Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud. For example‚ both Holmes and Freud smoked tobacco preferably both

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