The Method Of His Madness

The legendary fictional character Sherlock Holmes was constructed by a basis of a French criminal expert and a famous police investigator. He is known for his prowess in perception and analysis. On the other hand, Holmes sympathy towards people is near absent. Holmes loves to breakdown the story of each person he comes in contact with it. However, he does make a mistake occasionally. Although, there are many positive representations of Holmes, the Downey-Holmes is the best.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was and still is one of the most prominent figures in world literature, especially in the mystery genre. While many works of literature belong in the mystery genre, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series stands out the most. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous literary works, A Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and A Scandal in Bohemia share a common theme: the importance of justice and the pursuit of righteousness.

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

While Mr. Holmes was a serious and a brilliant London-based detective. Holmes is renowned for his ability at using rationale and an intelligent observation in solving the case. “It is murder, Watson refined, cold-blooded, deliberate murder.” The Hound of the Baskerville, page 144. As Watson said, “All of my unspoken instincts, my vague suspicions, suddenly took shape and centered upon the naturalist.

Sherlock Holmes is considered to be one of the most popular fictional characters in literary history with many movies, plays, and books about him. First of let's take a look at Sherlock’s way of deduction or in other words solving mysteries. My first example was in The Hound of the Baskervilles

"I shall soon be in the position of being able to put into a single connected narrative one of the most singular and sensational crimes of modern times." -Holmes pg.

Sherlock Holmes is a literary figure that has withstood time. He has been written and re-written, brought to life in film, and portrayed on television shows. Holmes has changed with society, aging as if he was not fictional, but as if he was very much alive. As people in American society become desensitized to violence and crave gore, Sherlock Holmes has been forced to adapt to meet the ever-changing demands made by society over the content they consume.

Comparing the fictitious Sherlock Holmes to the mid-20th century retelling the famous Christie serial murders, there is a shift on how evidence is collected and impacts a criminal investigation. Sherlock Holmes, although not apart of commissioned law enforcement, is very generalized in investigation. His minute level of training in the criminal justice field, demonstrated that the best detectives are not found within any state institution in the 19th century. In the eyes of the reader, any citizen could be a detective with little training if you were smart enough. He not only examines background information, but collects evidence, interprets it, and takes justice into his own hands. With little help from Watson, Sherlock Holmes epitomizes the

Sherlock Holmes and Dupin are both very good detectives, however they both have their merits and disadvantages. In this essay I will argue that Sherlock Holmes makes a better Detective than Dupin. Dupin is arrogant, selfish, and imaginative, while Sherlock Holmes is Selfless, Confident, and he is also imaginative like Dupin, but he does not let that imagination interfere with is work. Even though Dupin and Sherlock Holmes both have merit with imagination, Sherlocks ability to not let his imagination interfere with his work and his selflessness makes him a better detective, even though he may not always get his case right.

Present day America’s values shown in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows greatly differed from the Victorian values in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. These works contained contrasting elements of violence, action, emotional elements, setting, and suspense, which demonstrated the importance of violence, entrainment with little intellect, and emotional satisfaction in 21st Century America. The lack of violence in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the substantial presence of violence and war in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows showed the values of war and brutality in 21st Century America. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes often solved cases with logic and little violence, such as discovering that John Turner committed murder and acquiring his confession with only evidence (Doyle 74).

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is not the most well-known author, but his characters are perhaps some of the most iconic literary figures of the nineteenth century. Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Watson, Professor Moriarty, and even Mrs. Hudson are all familiar to readers and non-readers world-wide. Over the course of his career, Conan Doyle published more than 50 short stories and novels about the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Doctor John Watson. Holmes’s popularity was so great that, after killing him in a desire to move forward with other projects, Conan Doyle was forced by distraught fans, including his own mother, to resurrect the character. Holmes’s fame has continued to grow, particularly due to the variety of adaptions to the stage, film, and other mediums. Organizations such as the Baker Street Irregulars, the Conan Doyle Literary Estate, and numerous Sherlock Holmes Societies are comprised of book lovers who adore Conan Doyle’s particular brand of detective fiction, from casual readers to devoted scholars. Together, these readers have worked to to analyze his works, share ideas, and apply Holmes to the real world.

Taking the work of Walter Mosley and Sir Conan Doyle, we can see that the protagonists live in distinct worlds. We have Easy Rawlins from “Devil in a Blue Dress” by Mosley. Easy is a former veteran of The Second World War, he lives in the segregated part of L.A where he struggles to pay off his house mortgage. He takes on a job offered by Mr. Albright to look for a woman, turning his peaceful life upside down. We also have Sherlock Holmes from “The Sign of Four” by Doyle. Holmes is an exceptional detective who can notice little details that can get him a big win for his case. In crime fiction, we have a perfect world, where the detective, in this case Holmes, has the power to access any resources needed and the imperfect world in which the

Does this mean that only Holmesians can be “real” fans of Sherlock Holmes? This seems to devalue the contemporary fans of the television series as it seems to suggest that they are merely “crazy” people who only appreciate the more superficial aspects of Sherlock Holmes (such as the attractiveness of the actors). However, as new technologies emerge, it is clear that their passion for Sherlock Holmes is different, but no less intense than more “traditional” enthusiasts who focus solely on the original stories. Through the Internet, fans of the show are producing original fiction, artwork, videos and various multi-media works based on the show. There is also a staggering amount of meta-text surrounding the show, with fans deconstructing and interpreting

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

One of the things that made the Sherlock Holmes stories so unique when it came out were the fans. The original Sherlock Holmes fans are now widely considered to be the world’s first fandom (Brown). Self dubbed the Baker Street Irregulars after the group of street children Holmes employed in the original canon (although more recently rebranded as “sherlockians”) fans of the series have always