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Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes is one of detective figures who became the
forerunner of other detective figures in the next era. He is a chemist (besides criminalist) with high
analysis and deduction skills which helped him in settling many unsolved cases.
Realizing his high expertise, Holmes became a man with high self-esteem and excessively
high ego. In one of his records, Watson has written about Holmes:
"I was repelled
by the egotism which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my
friend's singular character."
When examining Watson’s writing about their cases, Holmes
criticized Watson for writing a few cases with more emphasis on the sensationality
of the case rather than the sharpness of deduction of Holmes himself. It showed very much of his high ego.
Holmes has a very 'Victorian' personage, with a high
appreciation on nobility. He preferred to deal with cases of the nobles and
respectable people, or dealing with an opponent who has the elegance in their
actions. He has a little regret when he was more often dealt with cases of
ordinary people.
"The days of the
great cases are past. Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise
and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into
an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies
from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched bottom at last. "
I think Holmes is someone with more logic than passionate
feeling. When he helped a client, it is mostly for the challenge in the case
Itself that he did it, rather than for offering a help. When he failed to
prevent his client from a murder, Holmes was sad not for failing to save the
life of a human being, but for his own failure in the first place.
"That hurts my
pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. "
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“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position.”
Sherlock Holmes is famous mostly for his intelligence and also his uniqueness in conducting his jobs. Other than that, his unique marks of personality (using magnifying glass, lighting his pipe every time he does his thinking, his skill of undercover), are the aspects that have set his fortune throughout the world. Other than that, I think, he is not such interesting as a person.
