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How Does Sherlock Holmes Relate To Social Psychology

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Sherlock Holmes has fascinated many people with his smarts over the years. Sherlock Holmes originated from the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There have been books, movies and other various things based on the fiction of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock I want to focus on, however, is the Sherlock played by Benedict Cumberbatch. This is the TV show called ‘Sherlock’ that is written by Mark Gattis. This show, not only has extremely high ratings and love from people, but it also shows many sides for social psychology and other forms of psychology. Sherlock Holmes in ‘Sherlock’, is a consulting detective that lives in 221B Baker Street. This is a present day Sherlock Holmes series and is taking place it London. The show starts off with introducing …show more content…

But there is also something else with Sherlock. When it comes to social thinking, Sherlock isn’t much of a social person. He talks to people, but wants nothing to do with them. He stays to himself, and several times in some episodes he even mentions how he only has only a couple friends. (John Watson and his land lord Mrs. Hudson.) He often hurts others feelings because he doesn’t know when to stop with things. He will carelessly state things that he and the person he is talking to only knows, and they will end up getting upset or mad at Sherlock. He doesn’t tend to know his boundaries and he at times doesn’t know how normal people can’t even think like he does, he says it ‘must be boring’. In social situations, Sherlock doesn’t tend to think of others feelings or what is going on, he tends to just think how he can solve a crime and how he can show off his …show more content…

Whether it’s with Watson and Sherlock, Sherlock and his brother, or Sherlock and his landlady. But one of the most important social relations was the one of Sherlock and his enemy Jim Moriarty. Every episode of Sherlock consists of Sherlock and Watson solving crimes and telling others the truth behind crimes and stories. But how these stories get there, and how the murderers decided to do what they do, is all because of Jim Moriarty. This social relation in the show really feeds off one another. Moriarty is a ‘consulting criminal’ that makes all these puzzle like murders and things like that. Sherlock has to figure them out and Moriarty always has something else for Sherlock to do. Moriarty eventually dies, and everything knows he is dead, but even while he is dead, things are still happening because of him. He planned many things out for Sherlock to figure out. The feeling of them two together always changes, but it is never good. Their relationship is always one of an enemy like feel. Without their social relation, this whole show and series wouldn’t even exist. Their social relation is a very important one and makes the show what it

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