This collection included the story The Final Problem in which Doyle killed the character of Sherlock Holmes because of a lack of literary achievement. The next collection of another twelve short stories called The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes appeared in the Strand magazine from 1892 to 1893. The stories appeared in the Strand magazine from 1891 to 1892. In 1890 the second novel The Sign of Four appeared, followed by The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a volume containing twelve short stories, many of them being the most popular ones. The story brought him no financial success and Doyle never regarded his stories as great literature. Sherlock Holmes had his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet, which was the first of the four novels. The stories became known as the ‘Canon’ and include four novels and 56 short stories. The expansion brought also a growth of building, especially railroad terminals, museums, theatres, public buildings, parks, colleges, grand hotels, stores, churches, and private houses, and with them a lot of diseases and poverty. At this time London was the greatest city in the world and it expanded between 18. (Redmond 101) Nearly all of Holmes’ cases are set in England and the majority of them in London, which Watson describes as the “great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained” (Doyle The Novels 14). Doyle exactly reflected the general concerns and everyday details of his period in his writings.
The setting of the stories is the late Victorian and early Edwardian England, from 1881 to 1904. He followed the rules of melodrama, he equipped Holmes with qualities that were recognized as masculine in this culture, science, reason, system and principle, he presents codes of class, gender and ethnicity the readers can rely on, and with Holmes preaching a new understanding of the world, he “was writing to fulfill a need for a new man for a new age” (Poore 3-4). With this character Doyle satisfied the needs of a Victorian audience. Over a period of forty years, from 1887 to 1927, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the stories of Sherlock Holmes and created a “completely new type of lead character: a private, consulting detective who produced amazing results through the application of a keen, analytical mind to the careful observation of clues available” (Weller 11). Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes 2.1 The Canon Finally a conclusion will be drawn and the most important points will be summarized.
WHATS THE NOVEL SHERLOCK HOLMES APPEARED IN MOVIE
Then the comparison between the stories and the movie will be drawn, focusing on the plans the filmmakers had, and how they were applied, on details borrowed from the source and changes made, especially watching the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. The next important foundation will be laid by the explanation of adaptation theory, examining the notion of fidelity, and answering the questions if a strict fidelity is possible and even appropriate and how it can be put into practice. John Watson, will serve as a basis for the comparison. Some general information about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, as well an analysis of the main characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. How did Ritchie put the character of Sherlock Holmes and all his trappings into a modern context? Which details out of Conan Doyle’s version were borrowed and in which way do they appear in the movie? And does he succeed in appealing a modern, twenty-first-century audience, although staying true with the source text? This paper will concentrate on a twenty-first-century adaptation, namely Guy Ritchie’s movie Sherlock Holmes from 2009, and its fidelity to the source will be examined. The different adaptations vary in a great degree in how faithful they are to the source text and how far they differ from it. Many authors tried to fulfill this needs and a lot of pastiches, parodies and adaptations were produced until today, reaching from book form, movies, TV-series, over video games, up to graphic novels (Poore 1). The world loved the stories about the genius detective and although Arthur Conan Doyle died, had a continuing demand for them. With Sherlock Holmes, “the character whose adventures revolutionized crime writing, setting the template for generations of fictional sleuths, The character whose ‘death’ caused grief-stricken readers on the streets of London to wear black armbands” (Billingham xiii), Doyle created a detective who became one of the most famous characters in crime fiction. A comparison between the stories and the movieĤ.2.2 The new Watson and his ‘bromance’ with Holmes