How do you account for the popularity of Sherlock Holmes both when they were written and today?
(Using The Speckled Band, The Engineers Thumb, The Red Headed League, The Blue Carbuncle and The Final Problem)
When Arthur Conan Doyle created the Sherlock Holmes stories there was a massive effect of realism in them, which effected different people. This is because of his background, which came mainly from when he was at school. He attended a boarding school, which was connected to a Catholic Church. He attended church services although soon he became interested by spiritualism and even though he had this belief he still respected what he had been bought up to know in the Catholic Church.
A main influence in Conan Doyle's stories was a teacher called Joseph Bell, he taught Conan Doyle and his classmates about observation and always paying attention. He used an example where he dipped his finger in some acid and then put that finger in his mouth. He would then ask the class to do the same. The observational part comes when he dipped his index finger into the acid and then without using any form of illusion would put his middle finger into his mouth.
(Using The Speckled Band, The Engineers Thumb, The Red Headed League, The Blue Carbuncle and The Final Problem)
When Arthur Conan Doyle created the Sherlock Holmes stories there was a massive effect of realism in them, which effected different people. This is because of his background, which came mainly from when he was at school. He attended a boarding school, which was connected to a Catholic Church. He attended church services although soon he became interested by spiritualism and even though he had this belief he still respected what he had been bought up to know in the Catholic Church.
A main influence in Conan Doyle's stories was a teacher called Joseph Bell, he taught Conan Doyle and his classmates about observation and always paying attention. He used an example where he dipped his finger in some acid and then put that finger in his mouth. He would then ask the class to do the same. The observational part comes when he dipped his index finger into the acid and then without using any form of illusion would put his middle finger into his mouth.
