Sherlock is a man of many faces. From the classic tales written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the modern adaptations such as BBC’s Sherlock, the man that is Sherlock Holmes has been around for centuries. While there may be various modern Sherlock Holmes’, there is one that is far superior to the rest, one that takes on the characteristics of the original Sherlock Holmes. This Sherlock Holmes was well represented in these movies and was accurate to the stories that I’ve read. The best Sherlock Holmes I’ve seen is the one portrayed in the 2009 movie adaptation “Sherlock Holmes”, with Robert Downey Jr. This Sherlock is my favorite as I feel Robert plays Holmes extremely well. I believe that he was able to take the character of Holmes and make…
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…
Author (Sir) Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, in year 1886. Transcending literature onto stage and screen, Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate audiences to this day. The Sherlock Holmes exhibition of The Museum of London titled “The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die”, London’s first on the detective since 1951, uses early film, photography and paintings plus original Victorian era artefacts to recreate the atmosphere of Sherlock’s London, and to…
“You see but you don’t observe.” This is a quote from the famous detective, SHerlock Holmes. The man behind the notorious novel series of Sherlock Holmes is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He has earned a special…
Comparing Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Boone Did Sherlock Holmes himself encounter any form of autism? Do you think Sherlock Holmes and Christopher Boone encounter differences instead of sharing similarities? Sherlock Holmes was known as a famous autistic detective in the 1800 's (Sherlock Holmes biography). It was unclear how he could solve crimes on such little knowledge of the information. Sherlock Holmes was not autistic. For a long time, everyone was sure he had a case of the…
In article entitled, “Sherlock Holmes: Father of Scientific Crime and Detection” written by Stanton O. Berg, he addresses that there is more to the Holmes stories than simply providing entertainment. “I feel a strong case can be made that the famous sleuth had a decided stimulating influence on the development of modem scientific crime detection” (Berg 446). Sherlock Holmes as the inspiration for crime detection was a theory that he was interested in researching. When he compared the crime…
Stories have always infatuated audiences. Tales of warriors, leaders, and heroes captivate the populace and fill it with wonder. Many look to these fictional stories for comfort and meaning, but when readers follow only the stories they miss the opportunity to enjoy the greatest men and women of all, the authors. The authors are the ones who create the amazing worlds that are filled with people worth reading about. There is no author that has done this as well as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle…
Sherlock Holmes has become known as a tremendously intelligent and unique individual who has a strong passion for solving mysteries. In fact, his name has almost come to stand for, someone who almost seems to have telepathy. Sherlock in the new adaptations, Elementary, House M.D. and Sherlock Holmes, has the ability to look at any given character he can distinguish their life story without even speaking a single word to them, just using his observations. Within the BBC vision of Sherlock, he…
Baskervilles The movie the Hound if the Baskervilles is about a story happened around Sherlock Holmes, who is a wise, clever detective written by Conan Doyle. “The Baskerville family has supposedly been under a curse since the era of the English Civil War, when Hugo Baskerville offered his soul to the devil for help in abducting a woman and was reportedly killed by a giant spectral hound. Sir Charles believed in the curse and was apparently running away from something when he died.” (Wikipedia,…
Sherlock Holmes: Finding Fact Embedded in Fiction Did you know that one in five modern day Britains believes that Sherlock Holmes was a real person? To this day, mail still arrives addressed to him at 221 Bakers Street, an address that did not even exist during the time of Sherlock Holmes. Did you ever wonder why this is? In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories, readers are entertained by the ability of the eccentric and erratic detective’s ability to solve unsolvable…