Analysis of the Way Conan Doyle Portrays Sherlock Holmes...

Analysis of the Way Conan Doyle Portrays Sherlock Holmes The course of this GCSE assignment I will be focusing my discussion of Conan Doyles portrayal of Sherlock Holmes style of detective work and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle engage readers with the text. I will also provide evidence to support my observations of Sherlock Holmes from the following short stories which I have studied; The Adventure of Speckled Band and The Red-Headed League. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After leaving school he went to study medicine; and it was his encounter with one of his medical lecturers, Dr Joseph Bell, that was to have a profound influence on the subsequent creation of the fictional†¦show more content†¦The name Sherlock Holmes is synonymous with images of the gloomy, foggy streets of Victorian England. The Style in which the stories are written. Who is actually telling the story? With the exception of The Speckled Band The Red-Headed League all the short stories are told as if by Watson. However, it often seems that it is Conan Doyle we hear when instructing the reader. What do you think is intended by this? Possibly Conan Doyles deliberate attempt to manipulate and direct the readers response? Dr Watsons narration shows his clear admiration for Holmes ability to solve the cases which present themselves. The first-person narratives (by Watson) allow heightened tension and suspense. E.g.: In The Speckled Band Watson declares: In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‚ ¦ The character of Sherlock Holmes Interestingly, Conan Doyle said the pictures of Holmes usually depict him as handsomer than he imagined him himself. 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