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Essay / Sherlock Holmes - 856
Sherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective with his own series of books written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between the late 1800s and early 1900s, otherwise known as the era Victorian England. The stories took place in London, on Baker Street. People in Victorian England loved Sherlock Holmes because he always had his man, and the police of his time couldn't catch anyone. Another reason why Victorian English people loved Sherlock Holmes is the way he solves crimes. He is observant, intelligent, has a sense of humor, courageous and is very good at making deductions from almost nothing. Sherlock is a tall, thin man with sharp eyes and square shoulders, known for his hat and his pipe, which he smokes a lot. He sometimes acts stupidly to catch criminals or uses role reversal and mistakes criminals for fools. SherlockHolmes is considered an amateur detective you can count on. In "The Red Headed League", Holmes shows that he is truly a great detective by changing his personality to handle suspects. He uses sarcasm, intelligence, his ability to appear calm and relaxed, his sense of humor and of course his deductive and observant mind. But in this story he mainly uses his observant mind and sense of humor. “Until the comic side of the matter so completely prevailed over all other considerations that both burst into a long laugh.” He makes a criminal copy of a dictionary for no reason, which is quite amusing. Then he uses both his sense of humor and his observant spirit when he says: "Behind the evidence that he has already done manual labor, that he takes snuff, that he is frank -mason and that he did a lot of writing. " .... middle of paper ...... plus, since Sherlock Holmes was a cocaine addict like most middle-class people at the time, this appealed to them in addition to the fact that he was like the justice that they didn't receive because he always got it. her man. The stories are popular today because they are set in London but not in modern, Victorian London. Since they were written in the Victorian era, the plot and structure of the original stories are considered well-written, highly imaginative, and including a variety of characters, crimes, and types of clues. Additionally, since the Victorian era police couldn't solve anything, Sherlock Holmes was considered a hero because he always solved his crimes in a unique and perfectly constructed way and as he was the first literary superhero to working to help the modern-day oppressed, myself included. , we must respect our stories, whether we like them or not.