Sherlock Holmes Research Paper

Sherlock Holmes: The creation of Victorian Age The Victorian Age was undoubtedly the glorious period in English history. The age has been credited for producing new opportunities and tendencies not only in the fields of trade and commerce but also in the fields of literature. Apart from classical writing, there was a rise in novels and short stories which featured fantastical stories. Those stories had larger than life characters and one of them was Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective the world had ever seen, was the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes’s lodgings were at 221B, Baker Street, London; from where he and his partner in crime, Dr Watson commenced their investigations. Dr Watson used to complement Holmes in the cases and later chronicled them in his diary as stories. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used first person narrative, which was one of the characteristics of the Victorian novels, where Dr Watson narrated the whole story exactly he had seen. He narrated the stories from his own point of view. Sherlock Holmes practised for twenty three years, in which he solved around fifty six cases and was even required to fake his death in one of them. The reason that separated Holmes and kept him above other detectives was his originality. His adventures were cerebral, his powers of …show more content…
Mystery dominated over crime in the stories of Sherlock Holmes. If we go through his stories there would be not a single paragraph that would give us a hint what was going to follow. Sherlock Holmes did whatever it took to unravel the mystery. As previously mentioned, he donned fantastic disguises- sometimes he took the guise of an old man, a woman or even a person who is at his deathbed. He didn’t hesitate to break the laws, if that was required to solve the case. The cases were his life and was defeated only once in his whole career and that too by a woman – Irene Adler who featured in The Scandal in