permission of the publisher. For complete copyright information on these eNotes please visit: http://www.enotes.com/importance−being/copyright Table of Contents 1. The Importance of Being Earnest: Introduction 2. Oscar Wilde Biography 3. Summary 4. Characters 5. Themes 6. Style 7. Historical Context 8. Critical Overview 9. Essays and Criticism 10. Compare and Contrast 11. Topics for Further Study 12. Media Adaptations 13. What Do I Read Next? 14. Bibliography and Further Reading
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Sherlock Holmes is a truly great character in literature history. He is such a interesting character that can be brought alive from paper to film or television. Sherlock is a character that can be portrayed in many manners and each one will bring something different to this all in detective. With that being said Cumberbatch-Holmes is the best portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes in the movie played by Robert Downey Jr. and in the show Elementary played by Jonny Lee Miller are enjoyable and
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Hunter Byars Andrew Kelly ENG1123 July 24‚ 2013 Dr. Joseph Bell: Doyle’s inspiration for his Sherlock Holmes character Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of the very popular Sherlock Holmes series. He wrote many adventures about Sherlock Holmes‚ a consulting detective who is extremely intelligent and sees the world differently than most people. Although Holmes is a fictional character‚ Doyle was inspired by one of his University professors‚ Dr. Joseph Bell‚ who was an expert in deductive reasoning
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He deviated from both the norm and the image of a Gentleman in many ways. Holmes indulged in several strange hobbies‚ such as indoor target-practice‚ and malodorous experiments that would sometimes explode. The rooms of 221b Baker Street were also painstakingly organized in increasingly odd ways. The unanswered correspondences of Sherlock Holmes were fixed to the center of his desk with a jackknife. Holmes‚ was an expert on‚ and‚ like most gentlemen‚ an avid smoker of tobacco. The specific
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Holmes Character essay The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes‚ written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ is a book‚ composed of the many adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson‚ which introduces various crimes to be solved by Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr.Watson.Throughout the stories we read‚ “A Scandal in Bohemia”‚ “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League”‚“The Man with a Twisted Lip”‚ “The Musgrave ritual” and “The Final Problem” depicts Sherlock Holmes’s existence and his perspectives
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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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Theatrical Reason In Arthur Conan 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
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Holmes is correct in his conclusion that "doctors make the greatest criminals." In his story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" we learn about a doctor who kills his one step daughter and is planning to kill his other step daughter to get this late wife’s money all for himself. "When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals He has nerve and he has knowledge" stated Holmes. I agree with this statement because physicians are experts in medication which can be toxic. Doctors also know
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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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The Adventure of the Speckled Band The story is called ’The Adventure of the Speckled Band’ and is a detective fiction. It is set in the year 1983. Evidence from the text to show this is where it says‚ ’year ’83’. The main settings are Baker Street (city) and Stoke Moran (countryside). The story is very appealing as it has use of the ’Locked Room’ mystery; which in those days was very popular. The mentioning of exotic animals is also very exciting and has a good effect on readers. It may
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