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
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them to get to know Jane Eyre like she was a friend. She gave them her
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.
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,
Gothic literature was developed during the eighteenth and nineteenth century of the Gothic era when war and controversy was too common. It received its name after the Gothic architecture that was becoming a popular trend in the construction of buildings. As the buildings of daunting castles and labyrinths began, so did the beginning foundation of Gothic literature. The construction of these buildings will later become an obsession with Gothic authors. For about 300 years before the Renaissance period, the construction of these castles and labyrinths continued, not only in England, but also in Gothic stories (Landau 2014). Many wars and controversies, such as the Industrial Revolution and Revolutionary War, were happening at this time, causing the Gothic literature to thrive (“Gothic Literature” 2011). People were looking for an escape from the real world and the thrill that Gothic literature offered was exactly what they needed. Gothic literature focuses on the horrors and the dark sides to the human brain, such as in Mary Shelley’s book Frankenstein. Gothic literature today, as well as in the past, has been able to separate itself apart from other types of literature with its unique literary devices used to create fear and terror within the reader.
A virtuoso of suspense and horror, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his Gothic writing style. His style is created through his use of punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, tone, and figurative language. Punctuation-wise; dashes, exclamation marks, semicolons, and commas are a favorite of Poe. His sentences vary greatly; their structures are influenced by punctuation. Much of his word choice set the tone of his works. Figurative language colors his writings with description. Such is observed in the similarities between two of his most well-known short stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”
British playwright W. Somerset Maugham agrees that there are no set standards to writing, and it is up to the author to find which creative elements help them portray their idea in the way they find most effective. With authors Brian Doyle and Anne Carson, both take unconventional approaches to writing to create an effect unable to be explored with a classically styled narrative. In Joyas Voladoras, Doyle uses extended metaphors and seemingly randomly inserted facts to draw importance to certain parts of the essay. Meanwhile Carson uses perspective as a tool to find the meaning of her seemingly random short stories from Short Talks.
Watson’s narration encompasses the collective stories of the three main male characters and their characterization of Irene Adler. Therefore, his failure is equally theirs and points to a larger failure of the masculine discourse to properly identify and codify the Woman. With the theory of optics in mind as well as the narrative structural patterns in secrete histories as a guide, we can conclude that Watson, and therefore the masculine discourse, fails as an accurate observer because the information he obtains not only is unreliable, but stems from the misperceptions of the masculine discourse.
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.
a chance to play the role of the detective to try and solve the crime,
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
In “The Purloined Letter,” Edgar Allan Poe’s use of complex literary devices reveals his unique writing style. These literary devices include: allusions, metaphors, irony, foreshadowing events, and a detailed exposition. In the very beginning of the short story, Poe provides the reader with information about the setting and timing of the story. This aids the reader to clearly identify what exactly takes place. Poe, known perhaps more for his grotesque and gothic short stories, wrote detective and mystery short stories as well. Within one of his most famous detective short stories, “The Purloined Letter,” Poe illustrates the theme of logic and cleverness to prove the essential nature of intelligence and detail.
There is one known very influential writing style called Gothic Literature. It is not only considered to involve the horror or gothic element but is combined with romance, superstition, women in distress, omens, portents, vision and supernatural events to name a few (Beesly). The history and beginning of this era is not well known. From a few writers came this writing style that has impacted the world. A famous artists known for this type of writing is a man named Edgar Allan Poe. He wrote many short stories and poems that include horror, gothic, and romance just mentioned.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s literature career took place in a prime time known as the Victorian Era. The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 1837 until her death in 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, cleansing emotion and self-confidence for Britain. Stevenson was born November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland, a respectable son to a middle class family. Stevenson’s writing style was known as knowledgeable and comprehensible. Essentially, his writing was easy to understand and got the point across very well. Some of Robert Louis Stevenson’s best works are based of real experiences that occurred during his prestigious life. Whether it had to do with him or something unrelated to him. His life transferred around from good to bad due to illness, depression, success and failure. Some of his writings that were connected with life experiences became very influential in his time and well after. A few examples are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. These three books are very well known around the world and show a link between the book itself and his considerable life. Stevenson was known to be a very adventurous man, always traveling the world and writing, so it would make sense that his books would be written about adventure and action.