Sherlock Holmes & Hercule Poirot: Analysation, similarities and differences

Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot are two of the world’s most famous, well known and well-loved detectives. Their stories have been translated into many languages and have been made into many television series and movies. Both stories are famous for their characters and cleaver plots. Both being detective stories, they share many similarities, yet are different, but how? The purpose of this thesis is to take stories of these two famous characters and analyse them. The main characters and important recurring characters from each story will be taken a look at and analysed. The purpose of these analysation is that both stories have characters that are in many ways similar yet different, and by analysing them first individually, and then in comparison to each other, the reader will be aware of both the characters themselves and the similarities they may have and their differences. The stories plot and structure is also very similar in many regards, yet both authors, Doyle and Christie, are able to make use of the same basic structure and make it their own.

Author dc:creator

• Rósa Björk Blöndal 1987-

Contributors dc:contributor

• Háskóli Íslands

• Enska
• Poirot, Hercule (sögupersóna)
• Holmes, Sherlock (sögupersóna)
• Bókmenntagreining

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1946/18000

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:skemman.is:1946/18000