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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Mordechai Geiger Mrs. Lesserman 3.3.2016 Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four Sherlock Holmes is an enjoyable read. The plot is gripping‚ and the mysteries are solved brilliantly. Never-the-less‚ as the stories are short‚ it would seem that there is not quite enough time to develop all of the new characters. However‚ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle adeptly solves this problem in the short story The Sign of Four‚ by creating symbolisms between the physical attributes of the characters and their more hidden features
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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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Comparing the Speckled Band and Lamb to the Slaughter The Speckled Band was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. Lamb to the Slaughter was written by Roald Dahl in 1954. Detective stories mainly base themselves around solving murder cases; the reader is taken on a journey to find who is guilty and their motive which is normally along the lines of greed‚ loneliness and hatred. ‘The Speckled Band’ is written in 1st person and the story is narrated by Dr Watson‚ Sherlock Holmes’ partner. Helen
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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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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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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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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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Introduction Oscar Wilde ’s most successful play‚ The Importance of Being Earnest‚ became an instant hit when it opened in London‚ England‚ in February‚ 1895‚ running for eighty−six performances. The play has remained popular with audiences ever since‚ vying with Wilde ’s 1890 novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray as his most recognized work. The play proves vexing to critics‚ though‚ for it resists categorization‚ seeming to some merely a flimsy plot which serves as an excuse for Wilde ’s witty epigrams (terse
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When the word ‘detective’ is uttered‚ who cannot say that the first image to come to mind was the man in the ear hat and the Belstaff coat‚ magnifying glass in hand‚ a pipe resting upon his lips? Undoubtedly‚ Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous literary characters of all time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation is known to this day as the brilliant detective who can solve any mystery using merely the prowess of his mind‚ yet the enduring image of this ‘high-functioning sociopath’ remains an
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