- Analyzing the situation beforehand. Holmes tends to walk around and think the case through even before he attempts to collect any clues.
- Ensuring he does not make any assumptions before he has analyzed all the evidence.
- NEVER guessing. He feels that it is very wrong to predispose oneself before acquiring a firm footing of evidence to base one's beliefs on.
- Collects all the facts in a very diligent and systematic manner, keeping all his assertions to himself unless asked to divulge them by Watson. Even in this event, Holmes may decline to offer any thoughts lest he preempts himself or offers wrong conclusions.
- Most importantly, applying his keen methods of deduction to all the evidence that he finds. He does this by applying a lot of prior knowledge that he has acquired from his work and studies on previous cases, since he believes that no murder is ever really 'new' and that everything has been done before but with variations. Most cases Holmes comes across he is able to compare to one that he has come across previously.
- Finally, Holmes believes in an objective flow of thoughts, uninhibited by emotion and impartial to all sentiments. Such is the attitude that Holmes exhudes, one of objectivity to emotional attachments especially in the case of women and falling in love.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Final notes on Holmes
Holmes' sleuthing comprises:
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Okay, this has nothing to do with your blog. But, on Facebook I took a quiz that was "Who is your Gothic boyfriend" Yah, I did, i got Sherlock Holmes.
That's all I had to tell you
Yah, but now to get to the real work. You seem to have really analyzed Holmes, and I agree, i think it's time that we have our final notes on him. The biggest thing that i noted from your writing is that Holmes seems like an arcetypal character in this genre. Even today when it comes to "solving" cases, such as in Criminal Minds, CSI, and Law and Order, taht this character is repeated many times, so making this list of traits was a great idea. In your future books when you come across a character, you may reconize such traits and then be able to make infrences and predictions based on them. Another thought, just occured to me, do you think that Holmes method is productive, well no, not productive but I guess successful, I know that he does solve the cases, but does he suffer a bigger cost? I don't know, it seems that there is a lot of emotional sacrifice going along with the sleuthing job.
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