The Hound of Baskerville The Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a very unique story‚ but just how unique is it? The series Doctor Who originally created by Sydney Newman‚ C.E. Webber and Donald Wilson contains many of the same elements our famous detective’s story has. The series Doctor Who is the story of an advanced alien time traveler known as The Doctor. Throughout the series The Doctor goes through time and space accompanied with his
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the basis of gender. However‚ Sherlock Holmes is not sexist within the book‚ dramatization and modernized episode. In the novel‚ “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Conan Doyle‚ the protagonist Sherlock Holmes is not portrayed to be a sexist character. To begin with‚ Sherlock insists on having Doctor John Watson remain alongside with him. Just before the King of Bohemia enters for his consultation with Sherlock Holmes regarding his case‚ Watson offers to leave but Sherlock responds by saying‚ “[n]ot a bit
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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE’S LIFE AND SHERLOCK HOLMES Gabriel Bingei March 4‚ 2013 Mrs. Marie Thompson English In this paper‚ every OPINION from someone else has been acknowledged in a parenthetical citation. I realize that the mere presence of a parenthetical citation does not avoid plagiarism. If I have used the exact words‚ phrases‚ clauses‚ or sentences of someone else‚ I have enclosed that information in quotation marks; but I have stated those opinions in my own words. I have also introduced
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November. 2013 A Comparison of Writing Styles and Themes From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Musgrave Ritual” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold Bug” It was well documented in his Biography that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his character‚ Sherlock Holmes on his teacher and mentor‚ Doctor Joseph Bell‚ a surgeon that Doyle studied under at Edinburgh University (Hodgson 4). We can see another influence on the stories written about “the great detective” in the works that came some 50 years earlier
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The whole first half of the book could really be considered front matter‚ since no conflict occurs besides the confusion of the previous death of Sir Charles Baskervilles. The reader is introduced to a Mr. Sherlock Holmes‚ and his partner‚ Dr. John Watson. After receiving and accepting the case of the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskervilles‚ John travels to Baskerville to meet the people of the moor and solve the case. The rest of the first few chapters
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influenced for Sherlock Homes‚ who borrows similar elements from Poe’s work. The character of Dupin reflects Poe’s ability to decode and solve the unsolvable; meanwhile the narrator of the story is the reflection of the reader. Although several elements are exaggerate in the story‚ as the reader becomes immersed‚ Poe’s true intention is to get reader to not rule out any possible outcomes Edgar Alan Poe’s work on The Murder in the Rue Morgue share striking similarities to Sherlock
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Literary Analysis “A scandal in Bohemia” At the beginning of this story‚ Victorian readers learned that there was only one woman cold-hearted Sherlock Holmes esteemed. That one was Irene Adler. She was an opera singer‚ and therefore presumed to be a woman of easy virtue‚ but this presumed stain on her character did not taint his admiration. When the story begins‚ she has had an affair with the King of Bohemia‚ who now wishes to make a dynastic marriage‚ a union which will further the aims of his
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Woman Who would have ever thought that the great Sherlock Holmes would be wrong from time to time? Certainly not any fan of the series of stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle’s A Scandal In Bohemia proves this to be untrue. A Scandal In Bohemia is a Sherlock Holmes story that is different from most others. This particular tale‚ contrary to many of the other Holmes stories‚ does not involve a crime. Even more unusual‚ Sherlock Holmes is not only wrong about his conclusions and deductions;
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novella‚ A Study in Scarlet‚ introduces to us the story of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson first joining forces and beginning their friendship and business of solving crimes together. Yet‚ in A Study in Scarlet‚ we learn about Holmes playing the violin for the first time. We also learn that he occasionally talks about topics that have to do with violins‚ such as different kinds of violins‚ going to violin performances‚ and what others have said about music in general
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photo or hearing a song from our past. Yet for Erica‚ it is unhealthy. It consumes her from inside until she presumably takes her own life. By the novel’s end‚ it is driving America into a future of unsustainable consequences. It is also a form of ‘cocaine’ for Changez’s family-unable to deal with their new world. Nostalgia can numb the pain but also
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