Descriptive Writing in Detective Mystery Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
The author is a man who brought detective stories into the world. The
word detective had not been made until three years before Arthur Conan
Doyle was born. Before Arthur Conan Doyle people used to read
criminals confessions. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh on 22
May 1859. His parents were Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle. He
was one of ten children and only seven of these survived. Charles
Altamont Doyle was a civil servant and Mary Doyle ran a boarding
house. In 1874 Arthur Conan Doyle passed his university matriculation
exam. During the summer of 1878 he worked as a doctor in general
practise. In 1879 Arthur Conan Doyle sold his first short story to
Chambers' journal. Arthur received his masters in Biology in 1881. In
1883, a short story entitled "Habakuk Jephson's statement" was
published. Arthur received a M.D in 1885. Arthur started to write
adventure stories to gain extra money. He became a doctor in 1887. His
first Sherlock Holmes book came out in 1887. The character was based
on Edgar Allan Poe's detective C. Auguste Dupin and Eugene Francois
Vidoq. By 1891 he had become a full time writer. In 1892 the first
collection of Sherlock Holmes stories where published. In 1917 the
last Sherlock Holmes story was published. By 1920 Arthur was one of
the highest paid writer in London. On July 7, 1930 Arthur Conan Doyle
died from heart disease.
Sherlock Holmes was not a real person but when Arthur Conan Doyle
wrote about him he based him on a man called Dr Joseph Bell. This man
shared many qualities with Sherlock Holmes. Although Sherlock Holmes
was based on a dear friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, the sidekick to
Sherlock Holmes Dr Watson was based on himself. 'The events in
question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes,
when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Backer Street." This quote
from The Speckled Band helps us to see that Arthur Conan Doyle, in the
create a novel out of an actual event. He had thousands of notes on the subject,
Because of the English Stories that Delaney reads in school, Delaney’s vision of perfection is very specific. He hates when kids tell lies and when they are not true to themselves, or others around them. He wants it to be just like the books he reads in school, where the young kids have a high moral standard and refuse to tell a lie unless it is for someone else’s sake: “...they always told the truth, unless someone else was with them, and then even if they were to be expelled for it they wouldn’t give his name…” (O’Connor 210). This shows the idea that the only right time to tell a lie is to keep a partner out of trouble. If these kids are caught telling a lie, nobody will want to be friends with them because, above all, they are a liar at heart: “They never told lies and never talked to anyone who did” (O’Connor 210). This is Delaney’s idea of perfection. A world where everyone tells the truth, and lying is almost never accepted.
The Appeal of Arthur Conan Doyle's Stories Over 120 years ago the lived a fictional character called "Sherlock Holmes", who lived at 221B, Baker Street. Arthur Conan-Doyle created the character in 1887 and the stories are still popular today. In 1887 Doyle was going to stop writing the stories but he got death threats telling him to keep Holmes alive, he did what they asked. I am going to examine and write about three stories: "The Speckled Band" "Silver Blaze" "The Cardboard Box" "The Speckled Band" is a murder story set in the countryside and is about a man who kills his step-daughter because of the money she will inherit on her marriage.
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The Victorian Era started when Queen Victorian inherited the throne in 1837 and lasted till 1901. Over those years, England underwent “technological, commercial, and social developments that fundamentally changed English life, replacing the world into which Victoria was born with one that looks much more familiar to the twenty-first-century eye.” (Nelson 1). According to Houghton “never before had men thought of their own time as an era of change from the past to the future.”(1). England was in the period of transition, the change from the Middle Ages to the modern period. The old doctrines and institutions were attacked and modified and a new order was proposed. The Victorians had to live between two words,
To what extent do the detective fiction stories looked at imitate The Murders in the Rue Morgue in terms of the character and the creation of tension? Question: To what extent do the detective fiction stories looked at imitate 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' in terms of the character and the creation of tension? This essay will explain, discuss and examine the effects of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' had on other authors writing detective stories during the 19th century. ' The Murders in the Rue Morgue' was a new kind of story and Edgar Allen Poe had many authors imitate him.
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The idea of a detective catching an elusive convict or solving an improbable crime has been prevalent in all corners of the world, spread throughout many cultures and societies. The detective genre is held as the idea that an individual has to solve a crime. This detective usually has nothing to gain from solving the crime, but they see it more as an obstacle. The detective doesn’t always take every case, as human beings, we are too often curious of the impossible; our natural instinct is to question why and how things work in this world. People crave mystery, to taste a bit of improbable, to see what the detectives see, to see what is overlooked by many. The idea of an intelligent witty, sharp “sleuth” with an obedient sidekick has been prevalent
First, Holmes is the first scientific detective. Second, all of his cases ended up solved so therefore there are no flaws in his method. Well after researching in and out of books and web sites, I finally found the "true" way Holmes solved crimes. The site I found such spectacular information is Sherlockian.Net. This sight was helpful and it made me understand most of the stories by Conan Doyle.
Next was college he attended Princeton for a semester but left because of the his Addison’s disease. He enrolled to London School of Economics but he never went. The final College was Harvard. He enrolled in the fall of 1936. This time in school he was know as a ladies man. He was good at swimming and golf. But during a football practice he ruptured a spinal disk. When he was in the hospital he wrote a book called “Profiles in courage”. The book won the Pulitzer Prize award in 1937.
Edgar Allan Poe is a wonderful writer. He is most widely known for his hair-raising stories. His writing style is unique in that he uses subtle details to add suspense to his stories. He also uses dark details to help his audience figure out lingering questions they might have upon finishing his stories. One perfect example of his famous style of writing is, “The Cask of Amontillado”. Throughout the story there are four important details that help the reader realize that the murder of Fortunato was not perfect revenge.
My vision Frankenstein’s monster is it being about seven feet tall, with lanky arms and legs, it does not have a lot of muscle as it was created, it is all skin and bones. However, what makes the monster scary are all of the stitches where its joints and limbs are attached. They look like this, ≠, with red around them because of scarring, and the fact that the bones are dead and cannot join together naturally. His face looks almost alien-like, with a big forehead, big brown bug eyes; his nose is crooked almost as if it was broken. The lips are the biggest feature of the face, as they have stitches on them like the ones on his body, but they can move and speak as he pleases. His voice is deep and raspy, with a very commanding tone that intimidates
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia, demonstrates how a specific character can be used to expand upon the complexity of the story’s main character. Specifically in the case of Irene Adler, Conan Doyle does not go into much detail about her, as much as he uses her as a contrast to Holmes. Adler’s presence in the story is the antagonist, but seems much more than that to Holmes’. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s use of Adler seems to be very unique and creative compared to some of his other works, though after her appearance, Conan Doyle’s works with Sherlock all come to a similar structure, that Sherlock seems to come to adore the villains, more so the villains intellect, and put up with the people that hire him.
The book that got everything started for Conan Doyle, and brought him fame world wide
In both the movie and the book, many characters have different personality traits as well as being portrayed in a different light. The short stories of Sherlock Holmes and the movie, starring Robert Downey Jr., have done just that. The way these entities depict Holmes seems to be quite different. It’s amazing to see how someone can reveal an absolutely different side of Holmes.