How Did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Influence His Work?
There are numerous instances in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories of Sherlock Holmes in which Doyle brings aspects of his own life into the stories he writes. The way Doyle was raised by his mother and father, and the characteristics they possessed carried into his writing. Other people such as his teacher at Edinburg University also influenced his work in major ways. Also, Doyle's occupation and studies prior to writing his stories built the narrator of the story, Dr. Watson. Finally the events he faced in his life probably have one of the largest effects on his short stories of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle's mother, Mary Doyle, had a passion for books and was a master story teller. She always told stories to young Arthur (Dover, n.d.). She
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The only way this could have been productive in Doyle's youth was to set an example for which he should not follow. This is present in the first story Doyle writes, A Study in Scarlet. In Doyle's first book, Holmes is investigating his first murder and after a while he comes up with his first suspect, a drunk (Doyle43, 1894). Most likely Doyle did not mean to make his first suspect a mirror image of his father. The distasteful attitude that Doyle had towards his father and his father's alcohol problems was carried on into the suspect of Doyle's first book about Sherlock Homes. But the drunk is not the only character modeled off of a person in Doyle's …show more content…
Doyle graduated from Edinburg University as a doctor in 1885 and went on to work as a doctor's assistant (Merriman, n.d.). Watson, the narrator in the Sherlock Holmes series, is too a Doctor. Peters explains that “Doyle’s war experiences influenced much of his later work and ideas” (Peter, 2009). In the beginning of A Study in Scarlet, "Watson is settling in London to recover from a wound and illness he sustained while acting as a military doctor during the Second Afghan War"(LLC, n.d.). To add to that... Doyle goes on in 1900 to serve as a doctor at the Longman Hospital during the South American war (Merriman, n.d.). So, to get our facts straight, we have a doctor's assistant, Doyle, writing about a military doctor in the afghan war, Dr. Watson. Doyle then goes on to connect even more to Watson's character by serving as a doctor during the South African
The only way this could have been productive in Doyle's youth was to set an example for which he should not follow. This is present in the first story Doyle writes, A Study in Scarlet. In Doyle's first book, Holmes is investigating his first murder and after a while he comes up with his first suspect, a drunk (Doyle43, 1894). Most likely Doyle did not mean to make his first suspect a mirror image of his father. The distasteful attitude that Doyle had towards his father and his father's alcohol problems was carried on into the suspect of Doyle's first book about Sherlock Homes. But the drunk is not the only character modeled off of a person in Doyle's …show more content…
Doyle graduated from Edinburg University as a doctor in 1885 and went on to work as a doctor's assistant (Merriman, n.d.). Watson, the narrator in the Sherlock Holmes series, is too a Doctor. Peters explains that “Doyle’s war experiences influenced much of his later work and ideas” (Peter, 2009). In the beginning of A Study in Scarlet, "Watson is settling in London to recover from a wound and illness he sustained while acting as a military doctor during the Second Afghan War"(LLC, n.d.). To add to that... Doyle goes on in 1900 to serve as a doctor at the Longman Hospital during the South American war (Merriman, n.d.). So, to get our facts straight, we have a doctor's assistant, Doyle, writing about a military doctor in the afghan war, Dr. Watson. Doyle then goes on to connect even more to Watson's character by serving as a doctor during the South African