Gender: male

Nationality: UK

Birth:1family background during the autumn and winter of 854: the descendants of the squire once owned land, but by the generation of Sherlock Holmes, the family had declined.

Family status: My grandmother is French and was born in a family of French painters. Parents are unknown. I have a brother named Mycroft Holmes. Seven years older than him. The two brothers grew up under the care of nanny Larry. Another distant relative, Foner, is a doctor.

Calendar: 1. I studied in an aristocratic school, but I didn't finish my studies.

2. Graduated from Oxford University. Chemistry major.

Calendar: 1. 1877, Sherlock Holmes detective office officially opened. Originally located in Montag Street near the British Museum. Later, when the economy was a little better, Watson and I shared a room at 22 Baker Street1B. Watson practices medicine and Holmes handles cases. He practiced medicine here from 188 1 year to 1930.

2. Accepted the following cases:

1882 "case study of blood characters"

1883 "spotted tape box"

1887 "riddle of ridgate"

1888 "uncanny valley Case", "Four Signs Case", "Greek Translation Case" and "Noble Singles Case"

1889 Bohemian scandal, crooked mouth man, hunchback case, securities broker employee case,

Bos Combi Valley, Engineer's Thumb, Five Orange Grains, Baskerville Hound and Naval Agreement.

1890 "Identity Case", "Red Hair Club Case" and "Dying Detective Case"

189 1 "the last case"

1894 "Westley apartment case", "empty house case", "Norwood architect case" and "Phnom Penh glasses case"

1895 "Three College Students Case", "Riding Alone Case", "Black Peter Case" and "Bruce Burton Plan"

1896 "masked tenant case" and "missing captain case"

1897 Glanz manor case and devil's heel case

1898 "dancer case" and "retired pigment dealer case"

1902 "temple public school case", "three people with the same surname case" and "powerful client case"

1903 soldiers with white skin, jewels in the crown, reptiles and the missing captain

1907 "retirement" and "lion's mane" cases

19 12 "Last Greetings" Case

3. 189 1 year, he fought to the death with his old enemy Professor moriarty and fell into the Swiss Reichenbach Waterfall. Life and death are unknown. But 1895, he returned to the "empty house case".

4. 1895, Queen Victoria received her and gave her an emerald tie clip.

1902, he was knighted, but Holmes refused to be knighted.

Hobbies: smoking a pipe, playing the violin and attending concerts. I like to take a Turkish bath. 1888, I got into the bad habit of taking cocaine because I wanted to stimulate my mind. 1894, he quit with the help of Watson.

Sherlock Holmes is proficient in all kinds of majors required for detective business, such as chemistry, psychology, anatomy, mathematics, foreign languages (French, Italian, German, Latin) and so on. Surprisingly, as a detective, he is a very successful violinist. Besides, he is also good at sword dancing, which can not only defend himself, but also catch criminals and robbers. In particular, his observant heart and meticulous mind are good at logical reasoning. Once a doubt is found, he will devote himself to deliberation and stay awake day and night until the truth of the case comes out. His superb crime-solving skills are often convincing and even more amazing to readers.

Holmes is a flesh-and-blood figure, and he appears in real life with a down-to-earth attitude. He took a familiar carriage or train and wandered in the fog of London for 5438+065438+ 10. He stayed in a famous hotel, read the Daily Telegraph and other popular newspapers, and met people from all walks of life ... This made it easy for readers to believe that he was a member of social reality and felt really unforgettable.

Sherlock Holmes has superb detective ability, which is the result of his continuous study, research and practice. He rented a house in Baker Street next to the British Museum. There, he used all resources and opportunities to learn detective's experience and science, formed the habit of being good at thinking and mastered the correct thinking method. So his various detectives are logical and reasonable; His explanations and judgments on various cases are clear and logical, which makes people easy to accept and believe.

Personality assessment

The Shaping of Rational Image —— The World in Sherlock Holmes' Eyes

The 56 stories about Sherlock Holmes written by Conan Doyle all follow the same basic pattern: the detective asks the client to explain the problem to himself. Holmes often shows his superb wisdom by making a series of inferences about the narrator or the client, or both, thus establishing his authority. In the process of investigation, he identified extremely important clues and put forward the hypothesis to solve the problem. It is difficult for other characters to understand his reasoning or draw correct conclusions from the information provided to them. Once the criminal is confirmed, he is forced to confront the witness, or Holmes explains his reasoning process to an envious audience. A basic pattern running through Sherlock Holmes' adventure stories shows the tradition of traditional detective novels. Conan Doyle's successor even suggested that this genre subordinate to detective novels should be systematized, so that people can regard this genre as the full embodiment of the same elements of all traditional detective novels, that is, they hope to imagine an orderly and harmonious reality through a closed and self-sufficient work.

Holmes knew his opponent's flaws and mistakes, and even their theory became ridiculous. Usually, official detectives are very stupid and unimaginative, and sometimes they are accused of being self-righteous and neglecting their duties. For example, in Four Symbols, Eseni Jones declared at the beginning of his investigation: "The fact is conclusive, better than theory." Like a positivist, he puts forward that "fact" is the hypothesis he sees, but his observation is not completely correct. Holmes had to draw his attention to some important clues. Because Jones put forward a hypothesis before he mastered all the relevant facts, if he thinks that this is only a temporary hypothesis to be tested and can be modified if necessary, then this hypothesis is not unacceptable. However, the dull Jones refused to revise this initial assumption. He is desperate to stick to his point of view, and he will stick to his point of view if Holmes doesn't point out to him that those factors contradict his hypothesis. Contrary to Foucault, he tried to "accommodate" his theory with facts. He mistakenly believes that a hypothesis can explain the known information that does not belong to his idea, but the hypothesis used to explain it is not very reliable. His conclusion is based on a series of conclusions, each of which seems reasonable in isolation, but there is no necessary connection between them. So this so-called conclusion is unacceptable.

Sherlock Holmes' extraordinary wisdom cannot by itself explain his opponent's incompetence. Incredibly, neither the famous Scotland Yard detective nor the doctor of medicine, a trained scientist, can solve this case, or at least draw some correct conclusions from it. This distorted description has two purposes: one is to prove Holmes' impeccable position as the best detective, and the other is to suppress the exploration of the truth through dialogue. This means a great evaluation of rationalism.

Sherlock Holmes' own view is that "detective work is or should be a rigorous science, and people should treat detective work in the same calm and unemotional way." He took a completely unpretentious attitude towards his client; In other words, people should regard each customer as only "a part and a factor" in the problem. The objectivity of the separation of cognitive subject and cognitive object has become the basis of implicit determinism in traditional detective novels: the hypothesis phenomenon can be clearly explained according to causal relationship, fixed law and stable order. In fact, this traditional determinism assumes that the objective reality is fixed and completely unaffected by the observer, but the discovery of quantum theory denies this assumption, which proves that the research object can change with the experimental device and the observer's point of view.

The authority of Sherlock Holmes' deductive method is based on the strict premise that it will never be questioned. It also comes from the detective's own attributes: he is described as a superb, even supreme, wise man;

"A perfect reasoning and observation machine." "Extremely accurate and sensitive" Holmes himself pointed out that this is a "job" (that is, reasoning) that requires extremely high skill and sensitivity.

The opposition between Holmes and his client also includes the opposition between experts and laymen. For example, in The Adventures of Soldiers, James M. Dodd was puzzled by Holmes' inference. He described him as a "wizard" and said in an exaggerated tone, "You know everything." For Dodd, who doesn't know the inside story, Holmes' inference seems to be almost an incomprehensible secret. In the story of Sherlock Holmes, the strict boundary between experts and others forms the basis of a strict and unshakable power structure. Minor figures (and readers) fully believe that order will be restored and illegal and criminal acts will be punished by the highest authorities. The world displayed by traditional detective novels, shaped according to the image of classical rationality and dominated by fixed universal laws, always returns to a stable state. Although Holmes attaches importance to "method", he does not care about the construction of theory and system. The problems he solves are always of a practical nature. His task is not to reveal universal truth or ultimate meaning, but to seek explanation through "understanding" the information he has, and to confirm the determinist world order through reasonable analysis. In this way, seemingly insignificant details become meaningful things and occupy a place in the overall structure.

Brain and heart

In the Bohemian Scandal, Watson commented on Holmes: "He is simply the perfect machine for reasoning and observation", and Holmes also said in Four Signs that "emotion will affect sober reason". He also famously said, "Man is small, and work is everything" and "Mind is everything to me, and body is just an accessory", which proves that Holmes, as Watson said, "It is the most perfect machine for reasoning and observation. And this also means that he must stick to his principles. brief introduction

Professor James moriarty, referred to as Professor moriarty for short, is a fictional character and the main rival of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. He is the first example of a recognized super villain. He is the mastermind of the crime and is called "Napoleon in the criminal world" by Holmes. He built a criminal empire in London, and he handled almost half the cases in London, and he escaped cleanly every time and never got caught.

Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, created Sherlock Holmes in the image of a real Scotland Yard inspector. Adam Voss, who was arrested by the inspector, is a replica of Makaui in the real world.

In order to pay tribute to Sherlock Holmes' works, Thomas Stearns Eliot used the same vocabulary to address the character Macawitt in his work The Practical Cat Book of the Old Possum.

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

Someone's (unfortunate) fate

He was born well, received a good education, and had an extraordinary talent in mathematics. At the age of 2 1, he wrote a paper on two theories, which was very popular in Europe. Because of this, he got a mathematics teaching position in a small university in England, and from all aspects, there is a very bright future in front of him. However, this man has inherited a very ferocious nature, and there is a criminal characteristic in his blood, and this nature has not been weakened by his unusual talent and intelligence, but has greatly enhanced his danger. Rumors about it began to spread in his university town, and finally he was forced to quit his teaching position and come to London. There, he appeared as a military coach.

In the last case, it is written like this:

With a deep heart, I wrote this last case and recorded the outstanding genius of my friend Sherlock Holmes. From the first study of the word "blood" to his participation in the case of the naval agreement-because of his participation, there is no doubt that a serious international dispute was prevented-although the writing was very incoherent and I was deeply overwhelmed, I always tried my best to record my strange experience with him. I was going to write only the case of the naval agreement, and never mention the case that disappointed me for a lifetime. Two years have passed, but this melancholy has not diminished. Recently, however, Professor Colonel moriarty published several letters defending his late brother. I have no choice but to tell the truth completely and truthfully to the public. I am the only one who knows the whole truth, and I am sure it is time. It's no use keeping a secret.