John Truby: Anatomy Of Story

“The single biggest mistake writers make while creating characters, is they think of the hero and all other characters as separate individuals.”-John Truby: Anatomy of Story. How true, especially when it comes to the characters of the Sherlock. Without Watson, most would not know the true character of Holmes and vice versa. With that being said, the characters would be weakly developed, and pointless. Luckily this show, does not depict those said bad habits’. Sherlock: A study in pink embodies the five elements of a detective story, therefore having fully developed characters. The five elements are: The milieu, victim(s), murderer, suspects, and the detectives. First off will be the Milieu or a person’s social environment. The traditional

The rebel who claims the right to be almighty has two major parts. He is uncontrollably prideful, making it a challenge for the writer to conceal his pride. His end will be in three ways execution, suicide, and madness. Our murderer the cabby considered his self a genius like Holmes. “If only people would think” was a very frequent saying of his, killing his victims with chance and probability. Another show of pride was the fact that he held his hostages with a faulty gun. He omnipotence was a scam, for most of his “information” and money came from an unknown character by name of Morairty. Holmes revealed his aneurysm, divorce, and separation from his children, but most of all he revealed the killers motive. The characters, like Holmes, help build up the killer’s

The official job of a detective is to restore peace. Our two detectives are the famous Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. Though Sherlock is known as a detective he is only a “Consulting Detective” he nicely puts. He enjoys solving crimes, because it frees him from boredom or “melancholia”. He believes he above everyone, nevertheless a very intelligent man he is alarmingly arrogant. One of the inspectors called him a “psychopath,” which he insisted he was a sociopath. Watson was a military doctor, who was recently discharged and has a somatoform disorder that crippled him, most likely caused by PTSD. The show is also told from Watson’s point-of-view. Each of these unique characters transition from flat characters to well-rounded ones especially after they meet each