Essays on John Watson

There are many theories as to how a person may become who he or she is. Some people believe that they are directly shaped by the events that happen in a person’s past, while other thinkers state that people go through different dialectical stages that led up to one’s current state. In this sense, there are many elements that one must be aware of in order to adequately analyze one’s life development. Three of the most important development theorists are B. F. Skinner, John Watson and Erik Erikson; these three men founded Operant Conditioning, Behaviorism and ...

Canon Doyle’s version of characterization is entwined with social issues, especially with regards to relationships. The time and the context of Doyle’s stories gives a critical, yet contrasting relationship developed between male and female partners. Thus, the concept of sexually comes in, and Doyle is keen to express this concept through his stories involving Sherlock Holmes and his acquaintances. However, this concept would hold a different social paradigm in the modern society, as Sherlock’s nature would be interpreted otherwise. Asexuality is defined in Sherlock’s stories as lack of taste, mood, or interest in women and ...

Taken from the posthumous memoir of Dr. John Watson, published on the 25th anniversary of his passing, in which the prolific chronicler of England’s most celebrated amateur detective frankly admits to the many and fanciful misrepresentations of his friend’s character - falsehoods which Watson confesses to have perpetrated upon an unsuspecting and admiring public. To wit, that Sherlock Holmes was, in fact, bored speechless and rendered irremediably irresoluteby excessive detail. “Of the many compelling investigations carried to a happy and just resolution by the ‘observational powers’ of my friend Sherlock Holmes, few if any can be ascribed ...