What Are Sherlock Holmes Failures

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Sherlock Holmes’s Failure in “The Five Orange Pips”
Failure is the lack of success, if a person who never fails and is always successful makes one small decision to cause his own failure it will decimate their pride. Crime during the 1800’s was incredibly easy to get away with. Police during this time period would only look at cases in isolation and not use facts from other sources. A man who persistently used the method of analyzing the facts and drawing facts from other sources would certainly be very successful at solving crime cases. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses a theme of failure in his short story “The Five Orange Pips” to prove that even the most persistent human beings make mistakes. “The Five Orange Pips” was written in 1891. Doyle thought that this short story would enhance the realism of Sherlock Holmes if failure were involved (Klinger 75). The story is told in first person view of Dr. Watson. Watson is a friend and partner of Holmes …show more content…

He believes that Openshaw can remove his danger by satisfying the sender of the letters. Yet, in this particular case Holmes oversees the danger and sends Openshaw home and dives directly to the mystery, “In all previous cases the superiority of Holmes has been evident, but in this case, Holmes is shown not to be infallible, and fails to bring the case to a conclusion” (“Colin Quarter” Letterpile.com). Holmes knew that Openshaw would be in danger but did not know he would be murdered shortly after leaving Holmes safety. This case hurt Holmes’s pride and his moral deeply because of how he failed. He cannot live with himself knowing the murderers of John Openshaw are unjustified so he must find them. Though Holmes has failed to keep his client alive, he plans on justifying the murderers because his failure has become a personal matter in which he must

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