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How Does Sherlock Holmes Affect Society

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When most people heard “detective”, what pops into people’s mind first? Is it a killer who is a psychopath? Is it a strange criminal case? Or a detective wearing a funny deerstalker and smoking pipe while solving cases with his best partner, Dr. Watson? Sherlock Holmes, the great fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle. A Scottish doctor and novelist from Victorian era. Many of our impressions of a detective was affected by his most famous detective novel, Sherlock Holmes. Many science-based method that polices using today look normal and sensible, but those methods were first used in Sherlock Holmes. This work does not only easily affected impressions of a detective. Sherlock Holmes also have positive impacts on introduced the importance of fingerprints, restated footprints analysis skills, and the …show more content…

The importance of fingerprints was first introduced in Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes’ ability of footprints analysis also emphasised the importance. According to handwriting, Sherlock was able to develop personality, trait, and many details through an easy handwriting. These three idea appears in Sherlock Holmes as evidence many times. Not similar as other literary works simply has impact on society or thought. It had influence on more harder things, forensic science, human society, and technology, in a positive way and overall and global. Even though Conan Doyle died, Sherlock Holmes never died, the story never end. The adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson will keep going on in fans’ heart. The influence of them will be remembered. The creator of Sherlock Holmes died peacefully at his house, but his knowledge and his contributes speared widely with the greatest fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. A great literature work have to affected something deeply and

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