Sherlock Holmes

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SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle

Contents:

• By who Sherlock Holmes was inspired ?
• his personality

• His line

SHERLOCK HOLMES

By who Sherlock Holmes was inspired ?

Since 1887, Sherlock was introduced to the world in A Study in Scarlet. Inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, one of the teachers at the medical school of Edinburgh University. Arthur Doyle was seventeen years old when he first met Dr. Joseph Bell, who was then thirty-nine. The doctor left an indelible impression upon the young student. This is how Conan Doyle described Dr Bell: A “thin wiry, dark” man, “with a high-nosed acute face, penetrating grey eyes, and angular shoulders.”

SHERLOCK HOLMES

His personality

Holmes has essentially an obsessive personality. He works compulsively on all his cases and his deductive powers are phenomenal. He is also known to run chemistry experiments in his spare time to the dismay of both Dr. Watson and his landlady Mrs. Hudson. In His Last Bow, set in 1914, Holmes is described as being 60, indicating that he was born in 1854. Sherlock Holmes is one of the most famous icon of the British culture, the world’s first and only “consulting detective”. Also in The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, he talk about his obsession with violon. And in the serie, we see him playing violon many times.

SHERLOCK HOLMES

His line

"I'm not a psychopath, I'm a highly functioning SOCIOPATH"

SHERLOCK HOLMES

DEATH

Holmes faked his death in all three. He was originally meant to die inthe novels but Doyle reincarnated him due to popular demand.

SHERLOCK HOLMES

THE HOLMES FAMILY TREE

Mr. Holmes

Mrs. Holmes

Eurus Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Mycroft Holmes

DOCTOR WATSON

Dr. John Hamish Watson is a fictional character created by Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes saga. He is an English M.D(doctor of medicine)which shared lodgings with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and was his biographer and friend. At first Arthur Conan Doyle named the character as Ormond Sacker. But he changed his mind afterward and renamed him John H. Watson.

Contents:

• His physical appearance
• His family
• Marriages
• His life
• His meeting with Sherlock Holmes
• His relationship with Sherlock Holmes

DOCTOR WATSON

His physical appearance

Watson was a middle-sized, strongly built man, square jaw, thick neck, with a moustache He was a rugby player for Blackheath. We don't known a lot about his family : - His father initial was H. Watson. He died many years before the case of The Sign of Four (1888) - He had an elder brother. He threw away his chances, lived for some time in poverty, and, finally, taking to drink, he died (before 1888) He was married at least two times. With Mary Morstan in 1889 (she was Sherlock Holmes' client in The Sign of Four) and to another woman in 1903 as Mary Morstan died between 1891 and 1894 by an unknown cause. John H. Watson was born beginning of 1850. As a child he lived in Australia, but soon moved to study in England. In 1878, he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.

His family

Marriages

His life

DOCTOR WATSON

His meeting with Sherlock Holmes

In 1881, Watson is introduced by his friend Stamford to Holmes, who is looking for someone to share rent at a flat in 221B Baker Street. Concluding that they are compatible, they subsequently move into the flat. Watson considered Sherlock more than just a friend. In March 1882, the friendship between the two men was so good that Holmes asked him to accompany him to the crime scene of what will became the first story A Study in Scarlet Watson had the position of a partner and a confident. However, Holmes's affection showed itself at only some occasions, but Watson was his closest friend and also his only one. But when Watson was married, their relation changed to some extent and had drifted them away from each other...

His relationship with Sherlock Holmes

ARTUR CONAN DOYLE

He was born on May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, scotland. He later died of a heart attack in Crowborough in England on July 7, 1930.

Novels

In 1887, his first novel was published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, under the title A Study in Scarlet which introduced us to the immortal Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. In 1893, to Doyle’s readers’ disdain, he had attempted to kill off Sherlock Holmes in order to focus more on writing about Spiritualism. In 1901, however, Doyle reintroduced Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of Baskervilles and later brought him back to life in The Adventure of the Empty House so the lucrative character could earn Doyle the money to fund his missionary work.

ARTUR CONAN DOYLE

ARTUR CONAN DOYLE

His death

Having been diagnosed with Angina Pectoris, Doyle stubbornly ignored his doctor’s warnings, and in the fall of 1929, embarked on a spiritualism tour through the Netherlands, before coming back home and dying the following year.

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After his death

Conan Doyle dedicated The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Bell, who gave credit to the author for Sherlock Holmes's genius: “You are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know it” he wrote him. The realism even ends up misleading the public. Arthur Conan Doyle, 1927: "Many people in the world were perfectly convinced for years that Sherlock was a real human being. I even received letters addressed to him on October 4, 1911." The New York Times announces the death of Dr. Bell, the one without Sherlock would surely not have seen the light of day. At 221b Baker Street in London, the character's original apartment, is now a museum in his honor. Even today, the museum receives about fifty letters a week from all over the world, addressed to Holmes.

BOOKS

There was more than 55 short stories of Sherlock Holmes and 4 novels like The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, His last bow, A study in scarlet and The return of Sherlock.

MOVIES

There are 9 silent movies of Sherlock Holmes (1900-1922). And more than 41 movies/series about him like the most known played by Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch or also Henry Cavill.

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