Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot are two of literatures well known characters. Both have a keen sense of detecting, and are eccentric, egotistic in brilliant different ways. Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in “Study in Scarlet (1887). He introduced his character to an audience who grew to love the character so much, they demanded …
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories of Detective Sherlock Holmes, the city of London itself is an important character and has a very active role. The city interferes constantly with the story and places itself dominantly in the novels. It is important to note how the city of London is represented and what kind of …
Coursework Question: Why is Sherlock Holmes stories still popular today? In 1891, Sherlock Holmes was a character very much of his time and place, who appealed to British readers directly by confronting the messy, changeable world they lived in. It was the time in which science challenged long-held beliefs and the status quo was threatened …
Theatrical Reason In Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes uses his famous reasoning abilities to read a woman in order to solve a problem. After all, according to Holmes a woman’s emotions always give her away, making it easy for him to find Irene Adler’s hidden photograph. The apparently rational assumptions about …
