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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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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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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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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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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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 Introduction Oscar Wilde ’s most successful play‚ The Importance of
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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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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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of Sherlock Holmes” As a detective‚ Sherlock 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 detective‚ Holmes 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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