Olivia Holmes Research Paper

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most prominent static characters in literature. He maintains his wit, confidence and quirky personality while dealing with adventures and compelling cases. He’s eccentric, completely ingenious and sometimes a jerk. He never changes. He is the hero of this tale, and its most popular character. He’s methodical, analytical and observant. He takes immediate action and is willing to deceive or mislead others if necessary. Although he is antisocial and impersonal, he comes off as charming.

The basis of detective fictions is a well-developed and observant character that is able to walk the audience and outside perspectives through the case. In this case, Arthur Conan-Doyle utilizes the observant perspective of Watson to describe the actions of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle characterizes Sherlock through underscoring vocabulary and the first person understanding of Watson. A series of analytical language and descriptive literary devices such as juxtaposition to portray the effects of Irene Adler on the near-perfect character of Sherlock Holmes.

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Sherlock Holmes is a well-known detective, deeply in which royalty has asked for his assistance in retrieving a photograph from Irene Adler. He is known for the excellence use of skills in solving crimes, of astute logical reasoning and of disguise. Holmes work has consistently involved

“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation” (Sign of Four 6). Sherlock Holmes can not only solve the mysteries that are presented to him, but he can solve them with ease because of his reasoning skills. In particular, he mostly uses abductive reasoning, but sometimes he uses deductive and inductive reasoning. This also overlaps into mathematics, with proofs and inferences.

Throughout the 20th century, hard-boiled detective novels were very popular and the public quickly devoured these male-centered stories. They had a major focus on plot and the characters in various novels often fit the same stereotypes, such as the cynical and isolated detective and the seductive femme fatale. However, as the years have gone on, there has been a rise in female detectives that do not fit the mold of the previous crime fiction pieces. Sally Wainright’s BBC police procedural Happy Valley gives way to a woman that is flawed, but does her best to succeed in the police force despite the various problems she faces. She is not just a female version of these male detectives, but rather carves her own path in the police force and the genre. In addition, the format of the series itself is different from the predecessors since it is character-driven and the plot is only secondary.

Sherlock Holmes, as a private investigator, is not confined to the law when determining justice for the criminal. He in no way can be said to be closely tied to the police, as is evident in his irritation with them in certain investigations such as “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.” It is evident that Holmes believes he is mentally superior to the police force of London, priding himself on always being one step ahead of them. In “A Scandal in Bohemia” Holmes states to Watson that he and the police force “see, but… do not observe” (Doyle 146) while Holmes does observe, giving him the ability to solve seemingly insolvable cases. However, he does work with the police to help them close cases when need be.

Sarah (Centre) – Main Detective, graduated from Ryerson University. Tough, alert and abrupt, apart from being beautiful and a good person, great daughter and soon to be a great wife…

Edgar Allen Poe and Agatha Christie are pioneers of the detective genre who both used the shared conventions of classical detective – ethos of a supreme detective and false suspect – to help create an enticing detective story. To establish the ethos of a supreme detective, the narrator, customarily a sidekick, describes the detective as an outlier who has superb analytical thinking skills, does not emotionally get attached to a case, and always solves the case. In addition to giving the detective a godly stature, it is typical in amateur detective stories to see a false suspect be blamed for a crime he or she did not commit. Agatha Christie advances the classical detective subgenre by progressively revealing in “The Witness of the Prosecution”

I believe being emotionally intelligent is a defining attribute of Holmes. Getting too attached to clients or others met in the process of inquiring information in order to gain the truth only serves to hinder a detective's job. Rather than pity the victim or the victim's loved ones, or rather than trying to understand whether or not the victimizer truly is evil or not, a good detective is able to go from a to z in the order in which a series of events led to a crime. Sherlock Holmes is famous for observing several things and then making a deduction that is almost certainly correct. When he first met Watson in A Study in Scarlet, he deduced that Watson came from Afghanistan based on a few indications, such as saying that Afghanistan was the only place an English army doctor could "have seen much hardship and got his arm wounded"

Sherlock Holmes is considered a great man because of his intellect and amazing deduction skills. We see evidence of his deduction skills when he observed that his client had traveled a long way to reach him in “The Adventure of The Speckled Band”, “‘I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached the station,’”(pg 213, The Adventure of the speckled band) Sherlock managed to tell where his client was before she reached him with just a few glances. When people say that Sherlock Holmes has an intelligent mind they are talking about his thought processes, that were way before his time. Sherlock’s scientific approach to crime solving mirrors modern day forensic sciences. He had the intellect to observe small clues and gather evidence from crime scenes that helped him solve cases. We see evidence of his use of forensic analysis in the short story “The Boscombe Valley Mystery” when Dr. Watson and Lestrade watch Sherlock do something very curious, “For a long time he remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of the tree as far as he could reach,”(“The Boscombe Valley Mystery, pg. 168). The dust sherlock gathers in this moment happened to be cigar ash from an Indian Cigar that the murderer was smoking just before the murder. This evidence helped Sherlock and Watson catch the murderer. Throughout all of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures Sherlock shows his greatness through his intellect and deductive

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most recognizable characters of all-time. He has been written, he has been portrayed in movies and television shows. He continues to change in society. As the people in American society continue to become desensitized to violence, continue to crave gore, Sherlock Holmes has continually changed to meet the ever changing demands made by society over the content they consume on a daily basis.

The creation of a detective fiction novel does not always have to be based on the mystery of a crime or something recent. For an author to shake up the detective fiction world and do something outside the box is new. The woman bold enough to do this is Josephine Tey and her story The Daughter of Time.

Female criminals comes into play in many of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock series and they somehow women is able to deceive him. It comes to our understanding in the book series Holmes doesn’t judge women by her “outward appearance” because he believes one should look “at the matter clearly and fairly” (Doyle 913). That it is more than beautification, gender and sexuality, to Holmes and it

When someone mentions the occupation of detective, a single image usually comes to mind, a man wearing a cape and deerstalker, holding a magnifying glass and smoking a pipe. This entire image can be contributed to one character: Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is considered by many to be the greatest detective to ever exist, even if he only exists in the pages of books and on movie and television screens. It is impossible to escape the influence of Holmes. Countless references are made to him in all types of media and he is used as an inspiration to may more fictional characters we have all grown to love. The cultural impact of Sherlock Holmes has spread to more than just fiction; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s