The Hound Of The Baskervilles Essay

A ring comes at the bell; a step is heard upon the stair. The dropping eyelids lift, and the nostrils quiver with the eager thrill of the chase. “Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot!” (Smith). I must have been a small fourteen year old kid rummaging through the school library, when I found that yellow booked which looked like jaundice had left it barely alive. It was torn and the print was faded, but still the title stood in big bold letters: The Hound Of The Baskervilles. I took the book home, and within few pages I was darting through the moor, running from the hound, and pitying a young woman on her condition, and all that while admiring one peculiar detective named Sherlock Holmes. I was hooked. Needless to say, after reading all the

Sherlock has all three of these in scarce amount. John Watson, although a friend, is more of a family to Sherlock whereas Mycroft Holmes, despite being a brother is more of distant relative character in his life. They have a deep sibling rivalry, but it cannot be denied that there is mutual respect between the brothers. Sherlock said of his brother that he was “The most indispensable man in the country… there were time when Mycroft was the British Government.”(The Adventure Of Bruce Partington Plans, 11). Sherlock goes as far as to believe that his brother could solve a case without ever leaving his chair, but because of laziness, would rather be proved wrong. .” Whenever one thinks of Sherlock, there is another character, holding cane for a bad leg and smoking pipe, that comes into mind:John H. Watson .Holmes declares Watson as his only friend time and again. Watson is his sidekick in most of his adventures, and his very own biographer. They have one of the earliest bromances in the history of literature. He is dismissive of Watson most of the time, yet he cares a lot. During one of their adventures, Watson is shot in front of his eyes and gets injured, full of rage and concern, Sherlock comes out of his usual cold and calm demeanor, and attacks at full blow to the assailant, and threatens “If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.“Every fairy-tail needs a good old fashioned villain” remarks Moriarty in BBC’s Television Series Sherlock. If Sherlock represents the positive embodiment of human mind and its genius, Moriarty represents the dark side of ingenuity. Titled, “The Napolean of crime” he is both feared and respected by Sherlock, Moriarty is an anti-thesis to everything Sherlock stands for. Sherlock describes Moriarty as a spider who has waves all around in the criminal circle and asserts that every criminal