Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective with his own series of books written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between the late 1800’s and early 1900’s otherwise known as the Victorian era in England. The stories were set in London on Baker Street. The people of Victorian
England loved Sherlock Holmes because he always got his man, and the police in their time could not get anyone.
Another reason the English people from the Victorian era loved
Sherlock Holmes is the way he solves the crimes. He is observant, intelligent, has a sense of humour, brave and makes deductions very well from almost nothing. Sherlock is a tall slim man with sharp piercing eyes, square shoulders, and known for his hat and pipe, which …show more content…
In “The Speckled Band” we learn that Sherlock is a bit scared and nervous, strong, sarcastic, remorseless, loves his job and of course deductive. He is strong ‘He picked up the steel poker and with a sudden effort straightened it out again.’ You know he is sarcastic when he says to someone ‘You have done wisely’ when the person really hasn’t done wisely. You know he is scared and nervous when Watson says
‘I could, however, see his face was deadly pale and filled with loathing.’ He was quite remorseless too because of when he says ‘But I cannot say that it is likely to weigh very heavily upon my conscience’ and as always he was very deductive ‘In admiring the rapid reductions as swift as intuition and yet always founded on a logical basis.’
In a brief explanation what happens in “The Final Problem” is
Professor Moriarty is on a hunt for Sherlock Holmes. Moriarty being a dangerous man scares Holmes and makes him flee; he eventually catches
Holmes and fights him to the death. Both of them fall off the water fall and die. Moriarty is just as smart, strong and even more remorseless as Sherlock and throughout “The Final Problem” Sherlock knew he would have to confront him so he was frightened ‘… allow me to leave your home presently by scrambling over your back garden wall’ yet still brave ‘Danger is part of my trade’ and