Prose Coursework: Sherlock Holmes.

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Prose Coursework: Sherlock Holmes

Study both stories and find and copy out evidence, to do with the following:

  1. Sherlock Holmes Character and personality.
  2. His appearance.
  3. Dr Watson’s character and personality.
  4. His Appearance.
  5. Evidence of a relationship between the two characters.
  6. Look for any evidence that the story is set in the 1800’s.
  7. Find examples of uses of language, which is old fashioned. What clues are there in the language that theses stories were written over hundred years ago?

Sherlock Holmes is very good at his job, he is a detective, he is better than others because he has the ability of deducing things very well, and he knows this, so he does tend to gloat now and again. He is able to look at a person and tell you what he had for breakfast, where he lives where he is going and where he works and how he gets there. Holmes enjoys drugs, such as heroin cocaine and marijuana. Dr Watson once described him as not the best human being but a very good observing machine.

Sherlock Holmes is described as tall and thin, he is not look muscular but is quite strong, we know this because in the book “The Speckled Band” Dr Grimsbly Roylott (who is supposed to be quite a large man) bends a fire poker at an attempt to show Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes how powerful and dangerous he his, Holmes just bends it back just as easily. At this point we get to see another great attribute of Sherlock Holmes, his ability to remain Calm at the worst of times, Dr Grimsbly Roylott had insulted Homes quite badly, but Holmes told him to leave and when Dr Grimsbly Roylott knew that he wasn’t afraid he left. Dr Watson tells us that “homes was a master of disguises” he could not only change his look, but his manner and the way he talked, all though he appearance in general is very professional, tow distinguished features that Sherlock Holmes has his hat which is a “deer stalker” with matching overcoat and his pipe, sometimes he is also seen with his very high powered lenses.

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Dr Watson is an intelligent man, but is often but he doesn’t seem like it when he repeatedly says “ oh you make is sound so obvious”, “ but of course “ and “ how absurdly simple”. He is often overwhelmed by Holmes skills and because of the time they have spent together he is picking a few things up skill up himself. Dr Watson narrates all the stories so we do not know so much about he personality and can only pick up a few things we tend to know what the doctor is thinking at the time. When ...

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