Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Research Paper

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For almost a decade it was surprising to see the fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle always had an indication of his believes in supernatural elements. As shown in his few works which I have researched, the Hounds of Baskerville (1902), the brown hand (1899), lot no. 249(1892). One could not understand the reason behind it, until he showed his genuine interest that was spiritualism when he gave his first lecture on spiritualism on October 1917. He needed to exhibit the realities, as he knew them, for the advantage of humanity. Despite the fact that he knew his notoriety and vocation would endure he turned into a frank advocate for the development. The sole reason for hiding the fact that he is true believer in spiritualism, supernatural world …show more content…

However this was a comeback which was appreciated and loved by one and all. The reason being when Doyle had killed Holmes eight year ago it brought shock and misery. Hence when this was published, people burst out with excitement hoping for something new from Doyle and guess what he brought his audience with something with really new, something which no one had read before, a climax which turned around the whole table of story and fetched the readers with a conclusion no one would have imagined. He brought the contradiction in his beliefs come to play in the game and twisted the story in a way which one wouldn’t have expected to come. Hence this brings to the rise of our research …show more content…

He was a”consultant detective,” who used to solve cases, one would never have heard of, never have thought of. There had been great detectives in literature before Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, like Edgar Allan Poe’s detective C. Auguste Dupin, who was an inspiration to Doyle. However, it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who gave literature a new rise, who brought a character of a scientific detective in the form of one and only Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock called himself a “high functioning sociopath” the reason being he had no real friends, he couldn’t understand human emotions very well; he believed it was beyond what can be studied. He used cocaine to keep his brain “active” (as per his beliefs). His character in the adventures is very confusing. He is believed to be beyond intelligent yet he didn’t really know that it wasn’t the sun which revolved around the earth but vice-versa. The irony lies in the fact that He tends to forget all the things which are not directly relevant in solving the case despite his eidetic

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