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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intense and exciting point of the short story. ‘Adventure of the Speckled Band’ created suspense when Dahl describes the room. ‘On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open‚ throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe‚ the door of which was ajar’. By doing this‚ Dahl hopes to create a picture in the reader’s mind of the room where the event occurs. As the story continues‚ Holmes whispers ‘The band! The speckled band!’ ‘I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear
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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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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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