Watson And The Victorian Age Essay

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While poetry was the most dominant genre up to the Romantic Period, the Victorian Era can be considered as the age of the novel, not only did the Victorian Era revolutionized the novel in those times, but it also made it as the most popular form of literary writing that has remained up to present times. The Victorian Era was named after Queen Victoria, who was the first English monarch to see her name given during the period of her reign whilst still living. Victoria’s reign lasted over 63 years, lasting from June 20, 1837 to January 22, 1901, consequently making her reign longer than any English monarch. The Victorian Era was distinguished by a long period of peace and prosperity, furthermore making Britain reach its pinnacle in advances …show more content…
Watson. Conan Doyle’s most apparent style in all of his detective Sherlock Holmes novels was his extensive use of adjectives to give better a detail to us, also the story is told in a liner, first-person point of view of Dr. Watson. With attention to Dr. Watson in his stories, he makes Watson recount a tale in a mysterious manner so you can extract the foreshadowing in the reading, additionally, each of the novels are told in past tense with the intention to create more suspense and anticipation throughout the novel. “A Study in Scarlet” is significant for the recalling of the state of the politics, criminal science, law enforcement, thus science itself. The story starts with Watson coming to London after he was assigned to wartime as an assistant surgeon. He was running out of money and knew no one in London, until he saw an old acquaintance that told him that another man in the name of Sherlock Holmes, an eccentric and brilliant man, was looking for a roommate. They met and decided to live together, furthermore, Holmes reveals that he is a consulting detective that allows him to help clients and solve clients as a result of his power of rational observation and deduction. Holmes tells Watson that there have not been any good cases lately, then in a moment, Scotland Yard detective Gregson asks him to help him solve a crime, Watson accompanies him to travel to an empty house in London. Holmes was able to subdue the killer named, Jefferson Hope, and the case was later solved. When Hope was taken to the police, he asks to tell his tale because he would not be able to go to prison. He got a job as a cab driver and tracked Drebber and Stangerson, he poisoned Drebber while he was drunk, thus he stabbed Stangerson when he tried to do the same but fought back. The next day, Hope died of aneurism and the novel ends with Sherlock and

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