Name: Sherlock Holmes

Gender: Male

Nationality: British

Born: 185 Family background during the autumn and winter of four years: Descendants of squire, their ancestors once owned land, but by Holmes's generation, the family fortunes had declined.

Family status: My grandmother is French and she was born into a French painting family. The status of the parents is unknown. Has an older brother named Mycroft Holmes. Seven years older than him. The two brothers were raised by their nanny Larry. There is also a distant relative named Foner, who is a doctor.

Education: 1. He attended an aristocratic school but did not complete his studies.

2. Graduated from Oxford University. Majoring in Chemistry.

Experience: 1. In 1877, the "Sherlock Holmes Detective Agency" officially opened. Originally located on Montague Street near the British Museum. Later, when the economy was a little better, he and Watson shared a room at No. 221B, Baker Street. Watson practices medicine and Holmes handles cases. He practiced here from 1881 to 1930.

2. The famous cases taken over are as follows:

1882 "The Study of the Letter in Scarlet"

1883 "The Spotted Belt Case"

1887 "The Reigate Mystery Case" "

1888 "Uncanny Valley Case", "Four Signs Case", "Greek Interpreter Case", "Aristocratic Bachelor Case"

1889 "Scandal in Bohemia Case", " "The Case of the Man with the Crooked Lip", "The Case of the Hunchbacked Man", "The Case of the Stockbroker's Secretary",

"The Case of the Boscombe Valley", "The Case of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Five "The Orange Pip Case", "The Hound of the Baskervilles Case", "The Naval Agreement Case"

1890 "The Identity Case", "The Red-Haired Society Case", "The Dying Detective Case"

1891 "The Last Case"

1894 "Westley House Case", "Empty House Case", "Norwood Architect Case", "Gold-rimmed Pince-nez Case"

1895 "The Case of Three College Students", "The Case of the Lone Cyclist", "The Case of Black Peter", "The Case of the Bruce-Bottington Project"

1896 "The Case of the Tenant Wearing the Veil" , "The Case of the Missing Lieutenant"

1897 "The Grange Manor Case", "The Devil's Heel Case"

1898 "The Dancing Man Case", "The Retired Paint Business Case"< /p>

1902 "The Case of the Abbey School", "The Case of Three People with the Same Surname", "The Case of the Distinguished Patron"

1903 "The Case of the Soldier with White Skin", "The Case of the Crown Jewels" , "Creeper Case", "Missing Lieutenant Case"

1907 "Retirement" Case, "Lion's Mane" Case

1912 "Last Salute" Case

< p>3. In 1891, he fought to the death with his old enemy Professor Moriarty, and they fell into the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Their life and death were unknown. But in 1895, the "empty house case" happened again.

4. In 1895, he was received by Queen Victoria and awarded an emerald tie pin.

5. In 1902, he was offered a knighthood, but Holmes refused.

Hobbies: smoking pipes, playing the violin, and attending concerts. Love taking a Turkish bath. In 1888, he got into the habit of taking cocaine because he wanted to stimulate his thinking. In 1894, he quit with the help of Watson.

Sherlock Holmes, who is proficient in various specialties required for detective business, such as chemistry, psychology, anatomy, mathematics, foreign languages ??(French, Italian, German, Latin )etc. Amazingly, as a detective, he was an extremely successful violin player. In addition, he is also good with swords. He can fight for self-defense and capture murderers. In particular, he has an observant heart and a meticulous mind that is good at logical reasoning. Once he discovers a doubt, he will devote himself wholeheartedly and work tirelessly until the facts of the case come to light. His superb crime-solving skills are often convincing and make readers marvel at the cases.

Holmes is a flesh-and-blood character who appears down-to-earth in real life.

He traveled in familiar carriages and trains, and emerged from the London fog in November. He stayed in well-known hotels, read the Daily Telegraph and other popular newspapers, and interacted with people from all walks of life. ...making it easy for readers to believe that he is a member of social reality and feel real and unforgettable.

Holmes has superb detective talents, which are the result of his continuous learning, research and practice. He specifically rented a house on Baker Street, next to the British Museum. There, he used all resources and opportunities to study the experience and science of detectives, developed the habit of being good at thinking, and mastered the correct thinking methods. Therefore, the various detective stories he conducted were logical and reasonable; his explanations and judgments on various cases were sound and logical, making it easy for people to accept and believe.

Character evaluation

On the creation of a rational image - the world in the eyes of Sherlock Holmes

All 56 stories about Sherlock Holmes written by Conan Doyle The same basic pattern follows: The detective asks the client to explain to himself the problem to be solved. Holmes often demonstrates his superior intelligence and establishes his authority by making a series of inferences about the narrator or the client, or both. During the investigation, he identifies vital clues and develops hypotheses to solve the problem. The other characters are almost always unable to follow his reasoning or draw the correct conclusions from the information presented to them. Once the culprit is identified, he is forced to confront witnesses or have Holmes explain his reasoning to an admiring audience. A basic pattern runs through the adventure stories of Sherlock Holmes, which shows the conventionality of traditional detective novels. Conan Doyle's successors even proposed to systematize this genre of detective novels, so that people can regard this genre as the full expression of the common elements of all traditional detective novels, that is, through a closed A unique, self-contained work that envisions an orderly and harmonious reality.

Holmes's opponents' flaws and mistakes are so obvious that even their theories become ridiculous. Often, official detectives behaved stupidly and unimaginatively, and were sometimes condemned for being self-righteous and derelict in their duties. For example, in "The Sign of Four," Ethelney Jones declares at the beginning of his investigation: "Facts are better than theories." Like a positivist, he hypothesizes that "facts" are what is seen, but His observation wasn't quite right. Holmes had to draw his attention to some important clues. Because Jones put forward a hypothesis before mastering all the relevant facts. If he believes that this is just a temporary hypothesis that needs to be tested and can be modified if necessary, then this hypothesis is not impossible to adopt. However, the dull Jones refused to modify this initial hypothesis. He was stubbornly stubborn and would have been stubborn if Holmes had not pointed out to him the factors that contradicted his hypothesis. Contrary to Fuchs, he tried his best to "accommodate" his theory with facts. He mistakenly believed that a hypothesis could explain known data that did not belong to his conception. However, the hypothesis used to explain it was not very reliable. His conclusion is based on a series of assertions, each of which seems reasonable when viewed individually, but there is no necessary connection between them. Therefore, this so-called conclusion cannot be accepted by people.

Holmes' extraordinary intelligence does not in itself explain the incompetence of his opponents. It seems incredible that neither a detective from the prestigious Scotland Yard nor a medical doctor - a trained scientist - could do anything to solve the case or at least draw some correct conclusions from it. The dual purpose of such a distorted portrayal is to confirm Holmes's unimpeachable status as the best detective, and to suppress dialogue to explore the truth. And this means an evaluation of huge rationalism.

Holmes' own view is that "detection is, or should be, a rigorous science, and should be treated in an equally calm and non-emotional manner." He expressed his opinion about his commission. People adopt a point of view that is completely independent of personal emotions; that is, one should regard each client as just "a part, a factor" in a problem. This kind of relationship between cognitive subject and cognitive object The objectivity of time separation has become the basis for a hidden deterministic view in traditional detective novels: the assumption that phenomena can be explained clearly and positively based on causal relationships, fixed laws, and a stable and definite order.

This traditional assumption of determinism actually believes that objective reality is fixed and not affected by the observer at all. However, this assumption was denied due to the discovery of quantum theory, which proved that the object of study can Varies with experimental setup and observer perception.

The authority of Sherlock Holmes's deduction method is based on strict premises that can never be questioned. It also stems from the attributes of the detective himself: he is described as a superb, even supreme wise man:

"A most perfect machine for reasoning and observation.", "Extremely precise and sensitive" Holmes himself pointed out that this is a "job" (i.e. reasoning) that requires extremely high skills and acumen.

The opposition between Holmes and his client also includes this opposition between the expert and the layman. For example, in "The Soldier's Adventure", James M. Dodd was baffled by Holmes's deductions. He described him as a "wizard" and said in an exaggerated tone: "You know everything." To Dodd, who did not know the inside story, Holmes's inference seemed to be an almost incomprehensible secret. In the Sherlock Holmes stories, the strict boundaries between the insiders and the rest form the basis of a rigid and unshakable power structure. In a world where secondary characters (and readers) have complete faith that order will be restored and crimes committed will be punished by the highest authority, traditional detective novels always present a world shaped in the image of classical reason and governed by fixed universal laws. Return to a stable state. Although Holmes valued "method", he did not care about the construction of theories and systems. The problems he solved were always, without exception, of a practical nature. His task is not to reveal universal truth or ultimate meaning, but to seek explanations through "comprehension" of the data he has mastered, and to confirm the deterministic world order through reasonable analysis. In this way, seemingly trivial plot details become meaningful and have a place in the overall structure.

Brain and Heart

In A Scandal in Bohemia, Watson's evaluation of Holmes is: "He is simply a most perfect machine for reasoning and observation" and Holmes also said in the Four Signs that "emotions will affect clear reason." He also had two famous sayings: "Human beings are small, work is everything", "My mind is everything to me, and my body is just an accessory." These are enough to prove Holmes, as Watson said, "is a most perfect machine for reasoning and observation." And this means that he must stick to his principles. Introduction

Professor James Moriarty, referred to as Professor Moriarty, is a fictional character who is the main opponent of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Recognized as the first example of a supervillain, he was a criminal mastermind who Holmes dubbed the "Napoleon of crime." He built a criminal empire in London. He was responsible for almost half of the cases in London, and he escaped cleanly every time and was never caught.

Arthur Conan Doyle, the original creator of Sherlock Holmes, created Sherlock Holmes from the image of a real Metropolitan Police inspector. Adam Worth, whom the inspector once arrested, is a real-world replica of Macavity.

To pay homage to Sherlock Holmes, Thomas Sternus Eliot used the same term in his work "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" The character Macavity.

In the novel "The Last Case", he fell into the waterfall with Sherlock Holmes.

Life experience

He was born well, received an excellent education, and had extraordinary mathematical talent. At the age of 21, he wrote a paper on two theories, which became popular in Europe. Because of this, he got a teaching position in mathematics at a smaller university in England. From all aspects, he had a very bright future before him. However, this man inherited an extremely cruel nature, with criminal traits in his blood. Moreover, this nature, not only did not weaken due to his unusual talent and intelligence, but instead greatly increased his danger. Rumors of this began to spread in his university town, and he was eventually forced to resign his teaching position and come to London. There he appeared as a military trainer.

In "The Last Case", it is written:

It is with a heavy heart that I write down this last case to record the outstanding achievements of my friend Sherlock Holmes. of genius. From the moment A Study in Scarlet first brought us together to his intervention in the Naval Agreement case, which undoubtedly prevented a serious international dispute, albeit incoherently. , and I deeply felt that the writing was extremely inadequate, but I always tried my best to record the strange experiences that he and I shared. I had intended to stop at the Naval Agreement and say nothing about the case which had caused me so much sorrow throughout my life. Two years have passed, but this melancholy has not diminished at all. Recently, however, Colonel James Moriarty published several letters defending his late brother. I have no choice but to make the truth known to the public completely and truthfully. I was the only one who knew the whole truth, and I was convinced that the time had come when there was no use in keeping it secret any longer.