John Watson

Merrian-Webster Dictionary defines a short story as “a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.” Yet, doing so is more complicated. A writer creating a novella does not have the capacity as a novelist creating a tedious book. In order capture a reader’s attention and to relay the theme of the story, a writer uses writing techniques. In short stories such as “Button Button”, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

Theme The most prevalent theme of this book is superstition in the face of logic. Throughout the novel the logician, Sherlock Holmes, is faced with something quite the opposite of logic: a supernatural hound. The reader can see in many places that the supernatural beliefs of the townsfolk and neighbours of the Hall swayed the reasoning of those trying to unravel the layers of mystery surrounding the investigation. This intersection of rational thought and irrational belief is first presented by

detail is defined as an individual feature, fact, or item, in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson have to use details to investigate the curse of the Baskervilles. Detectives Sherlock Holmes and Watson have an amazing attention to detail, however, sometimes they struggle with what is important; Holmes and Watson have to decide what is pertinent information, keep their minds on track, and be able to do both of those in order to solve the Baskerville

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle utilizes many detail-oriented literary elements to develop the many adventures of the famous fictional British detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, John Watson. Long winded description and complex vocabulary are infused into Doyle’s writing to accentuate Holmes’s great intelligence. By incorporating such a heavy, educated tone upon the mysteries, the tales of Sherlock Holmes are expressed as very complicated stories that challenge readers in comprehension as well as encourage

Sherlock starts to feel love even though he does not understand it and knows it will interfere with his work. On Sherlock, the emotions of Sherlock Holmes have changed. Sherlock has obtained a love for Irene Adler. He also has grown a close attachment to Watson. The Sherlock of the modern television show is different than the Sherlock of the literary series as can be seen from his differing emotions between the television show and the books.

In the beginning of the story the red headed league, as the protagonist hero. Sherlock Holmes say his life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace or ordinary life. Sherlock Holmes does not live a commonplace or ordinary life because in the text it reads that Sherlock Holmes finds a clue. Sherlock Holmes sees that the man with the trousers that is was torn up from where the knee are. Sherlock Holmes knows that is a sign of a man that had been digging a tunnel from one place to

protagonist. The protagonist is better understood in relation to the second. Conceptualize the various types of relationships between the protagonist and the second across various narratives this essay will connect with Sherlock’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Hannibal’s Hannibal Hecter and Will Graham, and True Detective’s Rusty Cohle and Martin Hart. The devoted sidekick introduces the “crucial, complimentary foil by which the main protagonist can be compared and contrasted” (Baudains). The sidekick

Holmes and Watson in the Detective Genre The detective performs a key role in the story and provides hope to the reader, especially in the time when Sherlock Holmes was written. Victorian life was hard, law-less and dangerous and especially in London. In every story Conan Doyle A vital component to the detective genre is the sleuth himself who in these stories is portrayed as a convincing, sharp, and witty character; a gentleman with intelligence, more so than the reader and side kick

The new version of Sherlock by the BBC is similar to the old novels in many ways. It is still about the great detective Sherlock, and his friend, Watson solving mysteries together. However, it uses the items in the story, the elements of the story, and its cultural narrative to move the stories into the 21st century. In the Modern Version of Sherlock, there are many gadgets and objects that were not present in the 19th century. There many examples of these gadgets in the tv show. The most obvious

projecting himself into the target’s perspective…[by] a process we now call ‘mindreading by mental simulation.'” ( Wu 1) He can narrate your history just looking at you. In “The Red-Headed League” He was able to describe the history of his partner Watson, just by seeing him once and the Sherlock Holmes detective head asks if he knew him for a long time. He is a very hypothetical thinker due to his Scientific research background. He is addicted to his work. When a person is addicted to drugs and so