SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DOCTOR WATSON - Lola M, Rosa M and Aina P

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 SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DR
WATSON

INTRODUCTION:

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are two known characters created by the British author Sr. Arthur Conan Doyle and they are very famous for their mystery stories and adventures being detectives.

 

SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective, referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories. Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic sense, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard.

In appearance, Holmes is tall and thin. He has black hair and grey eyes, thin lips and a 'hawk-like' nose. Holmes is scrupulously clean and is always dressed neatly.

Holmes seems to be an unemotional person at first glance, but he is not. He cares deeply about his friends and is often concerned for his great friend and biographer Watson.

 

DR WATSON

John H. Watson, known as Dr. Watson, is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Watson is Sherlock Holmes' best friend, assistant and, in most of the cases redacted by him, flatmate, and the first-person narrator of all but four of these stories.

He is described as a classic Victorian-era gentleman, unlike the more eccentric Holmes. He is astute and intelligent, although he fails to match his friend's deductive skills.

Watson was a middle-sized, strongly built man, square jaw, thick neck, with a moustache. He was quite handsome, Sherlock Holmes told about his natural "advantages" with the women

 

Method for investigation: our skilled detective was the forerunner of many of the forensic investigation techniques, the same ones that were written by Conan Doyle long before they were adapted to current law enforcement and forensic procedures: fingerprints the system was originated by Alphonse Bertillon in Paris and is based on identification by measuring twelve characteristics of the body, typewritten documents has been typed on a typewriter or word processor, handwriting the type of writing is different in everybody, footprints, ciphers and dogs because they can be very significant clues.

 

INSPIRATION:

SHERLOCK HOLMES

The character's name was a tribute to one of the childhood idols of the English novelist, the doctor and philosopher Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1904), one of the most renowned American writers of the 19th century. However, the character and work methodology of the detective are inspired by another doctor, Dr. Joseph Bell (1837-1911), known for his observation skills. This character was Doyle's mentor.

Physically, there were also enormous similarities between the two, from a stringy body to an aquiline nose to piercing eyes. On one occasion, the writer Robert Louis Stevenson sent a letter to Doyle in which he asked: "Isn't Sherlock our old man, Professor Joseph Bell?" We could say that if Doyle was Holmes's father, Dr. Bell was his soul.

 

DR WATSON

It is said that the character of Dr. Watson is inspired on a real character, although the reference is not so clear. It is doubtful whether Conan Doyle used Dr. James Watson, a member of the Portsmouth Literature and Science Society, with whom the author made friends during his stay at Southsea, or Dr. Patrick Watson, assistant of Joseph Bell himself at Edinburgh Hospital.

 

COMPARISON WITH TV SERIES AND FILMS

One of the comparisons is that in the books there appear very few things about Sherlock’s family but in TV series, apart from his brother Mycroft, we know his parents and his sister, Eurus Holmes.

Sherlock in TV series is a man of the 21st century who uses iPhone and has cool pairs of clothes and in the books he is a man of the 1880’s and 1910’s and there aren’t phones.

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In TV series most people are referred to by their first names with some exceptions and in the books most people are referred to by their surnames.

 

FAKE OR POSSIBLE THEORIES

• At first, Arthur Conan Doyle thought of calling his star character “Sherrinford Holmes”. However, he ended up baptizing him Sherlock after the combination of the two names of his favorite cricketers, Sherwin and Shacklock. The last name is due to Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), one of the writers that Conan Doyle most admired.
• As many must know, in the Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock was a cocaine user. This aspect has not been directly addressed by the series (opting to address more of his addiction to tobacco) but many consider that Sherlock does indeed use drugs and the writers have planted subtle evidence of this.
• Another possible theory is that Sherlock Holmes and Watson are in a relationship and it seems that they are homosexuals.