Who is the real Sherlock Holmes??

Who is the real Sherlock Holmes?? 

More than a century, after first emerging into the fog-bound gas lit streets of the Victorian London. Sherlock Holmes is universally recognizable. Even his wardrobe and accessories are iconic: the Inverness cape, the deerstalker hat, and the calabash pipe. In addition, the figures such as his best friend and housemate Doctor Watson, arch-nemesis Moriarty, and the housekeeper Mistress Hudson have become the part of the popular consciousness. As have his extraordinary, infallible powers of deduction utilized in the name of the law, his notorious drug use, and his popular catchphrase, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” Yet many of these most recognizable features of Holmes do not appear in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories.

Doyle’s great detective solves rimes in all sorts of ways, not just deductions. He speculates and at times even guesses, and regularly makes false assumptions. Furthermore, Mrs. Hudson is barely mentioned, no one says, “Elementary, my dear Watson”, and the detective and his sidekick live apart for much of the time. Moriarty the grand villain, only appears in two stories. Sherlock’s drug use is infrequent after the first two novels. Holmes is rarely enthralled to the English legal system. He much prefers enacting his own form of natural justice to sticking to the letter of the law.

Finally, many of the most iconic elements of the legend are not the imaginations made by Doyle alone.

Sidney Paget, the story’s initial illustrator, first imagined the deerstalker cap and the cape.

American actor William Gillette first chose the curved calabash pipe, so that audiences could more clearly see his face on the stage.

Author and humorist P.G. Wodehouse coined the phrase, “Elementary my dear Watson”.

According to the purists, the original Sherlock Holmes inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s university mentor Dr. Joseph Bell is the real one. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the sheer volumes of interpretation of Sherlock have largely eclipsed which has left Doyle’s detective largely unrecognizable.

~Jay Mehta

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