Analysis Of Sherlock Holmes 's ' The Empty House '

The antagonist of the novel, H.H. Holmes, is depicted as quite the ladies’ man. Larson helps the reader to recognize that Holmes’ good lucks and charms will help him lure in his future murder victims later in the novel. Holmes has no apprehension when it comes to making a mess of people’s lives’. Especially, when it comes to getting what he wants. Throughout, the story Homes continues to convince multiple women to marry him without legal documentation. He then disposes of them in various ways, gaining joy from their deaths. Holmes always concocted a story to get the attention off of him when asked

His ambition was to create a game which involved the suffering of others. Killing people created him a sort of pleasure, “Holmes was enjoying himself. He had arranged the insurance fraud for money, but the rest of it was for fun. Holmes was testing his power to bend lives of people” (Larson 355). Holmes always looked for people that he saw as weak and he used them to create his game which to him was to see how far he could go in changing a person’s life. While Geyer was investigating the disappearances of the Pitezel children he said that all criminals had a motive but no one really saw clearly what Holmes’ motive was. Later Geyer was drawn to the conclusion of Holmes wanting to have power over people’s lives. Holmes wanted to control people and produce others a suffering as he did when Carrie Pitezel was put in a hotel by Holmes in front of the hotel her children were in, without any of them knowing, that was his game. In the novel both Burnham and Holmes had ambitions but both had very different ambitions, which led their lives in different paths. Burnham by having the ambition to want Chicago to prosper became America’s best architect. Holmes’ ambition took him to jail and eventually to his death. The novel The Devil in the White City, illustrates that everything is not what it seems using the character Holmes and the creation of the World’s Fair. Holmes was known as a charming doctor that starstruck every woman that he laid an eye upon. It was said by

When questioning Holmes’s motives, one can first examine biological theories. Did crime run in his family? Did he have a bad childhood? Or maybe he was just born with a gene that would somehow trigger him to be a criminal eventually in his life. It’s very possible that he could have suffered an abusive childhood, causing him to grow up and seek a way to somehow enact ‘revenge’ for his own pains.

Holmes had everything he could ever want, which was great for him of course. His childhood was very privileged, and he enjoyed it. People told his family that he was a very intelligent kid for his age. Holmes was treated well. As he grew up, he got interested in the art of medicine. He graduated from the University of Michigan. Holmes was married twice. Holmes was treated well there as well. He passed his exam to practice medicine. He was always treated well, he was smart. He was looked as an equal. This led Holmes to animal experiment and also used corpses as experimental subjects. Holmes also stole corpses and used them to make fake insurance claims. There were rumors that indicates that he was responsible for his friend’s death. That was the first rumored victim of Homes later on he got a job in a pharmacy. Which Holmes convinced the pharmacy wife’s owner to sell him the pharmacy due to his suppose claims that the owner had “passed away”, and it was rumored that he killed the owner of the pharmacy. Then one day the wife went missing, to which Holmes claimed that she had moved to California. But it’s

Holmes wrote a history of himself, which he wrote, “ I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.”

The protagonist of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House is Eleanor Vance, an emotionally underdeveloped young woman with a dark past. As a character, she has a deep connection to the broad theme of family within the novel, and more specifically, how the lack of family when it is desperately needed leads to emptiness.

The writers don't seem to vary the settings in both novels which convey to the reader that the writer is keeping the setting in the same place so that the reader gets to know the characteristics of the setting in detail. Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes is very important to the detective-horror story genre because he satisfies most readers in terms of the personality of Sherlock Holmes by the way that he is a brilliant

Lasine’s first argument is regarding God’s wrath by looking at the book of Exodus. Lasine uses the example of “the destruction of the Egyptian first-born resembles the destruction of all living things in the Flood and the destruction of Sodom in being a divine response to human actions which God considers to be evil” (40). Lasine uses this example in his article to further demonstrate God’s wrath through his ability to destroy to create a new and better world. Lasine continues to use this example throughout the article display how much God’s Wrath is shown in the book of Exodus. It is evident that God is shown as wrathful to show his ultimate authority over his people.

Literature began to change drastically in post-revolutionary America. Newspapers, books, and other material got influenced by the newly created democracy. Different interest groups appeared and they attempted to shape the government according to their ideas and visions of democracy. A New Yorker born in 1783 by the name Washington Irving was raised in this world of democratic fanaticism. Growing up in this type of atmosphere it wasn’t surprising that he came to be a political satirist. In Rip Van Winkle this satirical nature of Irving clearly shines through. He mockingly compares the colonial life under the rule of the British against democratic life in a new and young United

The novel The Hound of the Baskervilles is written by a British author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1859. Following “nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, where he received a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success” (Doyle 1). Doyle’s financial letdown in Southsea created a need for an alternative way for him to generate profit, so he became an author. In the first of his many stories A Study in Scarlet, Doyle brings Sherlock Holmes to life; he is a detective and the protagonist of the story. Doyle’s inspiration and idea for an observant detective came from Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary. Dr. Bell

After graduation from high school, if he were to follow in his family’s footsteps, he would study art. But, Doyle instead went to study medicine in the University of Edinburgh. This University is the place where Doyle would meet his lecturer, Joseph Bell. Joseph Bell, a surgeon and criminal psychologist, would be the main platform for Sherlock Holmes’s deductive skills. One time, when Joseph Bell was studying a corpse of a dead man, he identified that the man was a left-handed shoemaker because of how his hands were shaped. This kind of studying would be used greatly by Sherlock Holmes to find criminals and arrest them. While studying in the University, Doyle met some future authors also studying there such as Robert Louis Stevenson. During his stay in the University, Doyle began to write a few short stories like the “Mystery of Sasassa Valley” which would be published into the Chamber’s Journal. This Chamber’s Journal was also the place where Thomas Hardy’s first works were published. On the same year, Doyle noticed that instead of filling phials to earn money, he could also write stories to get some money. Because of this, he wrote and published “The American Tale” in the London Society. While on the third year of his studies,

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was written by Sir Arthur ConanDoyle. The novel was first published in 1892. A Scandal in Bohemia was a short story about a woman who has pictures of herself and a high Englishnobleman. She used them to blackmail him. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a novelist, a detective-story writer, and aphysician. He was born on May 22, 1859 and died on July 7, 1930. He beganwriting The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1890 and finished writing it in1892. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was so successful in his writing that he gave uphis career as a physician only five years after the creation of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson were created by Sir Arthur

2014). Focusing on people and the needs of people are the most important part of what makes an effective leader. Leaders accept the responsibility of achieving goals or getting results through the efforts of the followers (Leonard, 2017).

Through all the stresses of family and work, Doyle wanted to eliminate Sherlock Holmes from his busy schedule. According to Theodore Dalrymple who wrote "The Eternal Detective," Doyle had his own medical practice set up in London, but no patients ever came. He would write while waiting for customers. He eventually became tired of writing and wanted to kill off Sherlock Holmes because the character was distracting him from more important issues. In 1893 he wrote “The Final Problem” where Holmes plummeted

Many authors have the option of how she or she would want their series of short stories to be structured. They can either be in the same format or play around and have the stories to be various formats. With that said, readers can then analyze the stories by taking a structuralist approach. A Structuralism Criticism is analyzing the test or narrative as a whole to understand its significance (Parker). To say it easier, readers analyze the text aesthetically (body and form) to see why the text written in this specific format is important. With the author, Arthur Conan Doyle, his Sherlock Holmes short stories follow a very similar structure which makes it easier to understand the significance. The structure throughout Doyle’s series of Sherlock