Summary:
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is a dominant and "in-control" traditionalist of great brilliance. The character captivates readers without technology, fanfare or hype.
Sherlock Holmes Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes's stories all straight forward and understandable. They all contain Shakespeare's English in some phrases. His adventurous stories are very entertaining and fascinating and they are still valued by most of the readers.
Just like all the writers he has an introduction for each chapter.
Although he has a good choice of words, some of them are difficult to analyse like in chapter 1 of the "Red Headed League", which says,..."Watson", he said CORDIALLY. Same applies to the "Speckled band", chapter 3) page 52 it says,."..and this she BEQUEATHED to Dr Roylott..."
His good choice of words make it difficult for the reader to part with the book because they make the reader curious and wanting to read on and on to find out what really the outcome was. They contain no fiction and are fairly controlled.
His introduction of characters to the audience is of great brilliance. Starting with Holmes himself personally, he is present in all the chapters and Watson almost features the same presence as the main character like Holmes.
Holmes is presented as dominant and always in force excitement. His part is portrait as energetic, incisiveness, challenge and that of general sense. He keeps the audience entertained and plays a very important role in the play. His part is that of great consistency and attracts the readers. Among most of the characters, Holmes seems to inspire and honour Watson.
The introduction of Watson is also brilliant. Mostly he is presented as a sympathetic character. He is more affectionate, less practical and more romantic than Holmes. His imagination is of more significance to the audience-it provides them with unanswered questions, for example in chapter 2"The man with the twisted lip" when he thinks of his wife, forks who were in grief came to my wife like birds..."
Although other characters are not described and not brought to the front, they all are sufficient and of great significance to the stories produced, for example Wilson in chapter 1 the red-headed league.
In his stories there was very little technology to be referred to, for example letters were written by hand. In "The retired colour-man" they presented their form of communications with the appearance of the telephone. The style and structure of his stories, we could hardly tell who is laying down the story. We wonder if it's himself or Watson. They all refer to the third person. The stories tell the third person in hand what is happening.
In paragraph 1 of "His Last Bow" we can clearly read that it is Holmes himself who tells the story by very unique actions. The voice heard obviously in all the chapters if Watson is absent is Holmes.
However this proving that the heard voice is Holmes due to instruction and forcefulness.
Like Shakespeare his stories are old fashioned but they attract all readers ans still are valued
This is the complete article, containing 472 words
(approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page).
