Sherlock's other adventures
Any good story of a literary and screen character is a story of knowing oneself, all as the wise Greeks bequeathed to us. Sherlock's story is undoubtedly good, so it's also a cornerstone motif. But we have a detective here, so knowledge should bear traces of the genre, lie, so to speak, in the detective plane. The authors made an incredible and brave move - in addition to the external saturated plot, they put the mystery in the detective himself and throughout the series offered us to guess it. Not directly suggested, no, rather as a game without rules, which must first be caught in the first place, isolating from the dense flow of storylines and frank trolling, and then play and have fun. Insidious authors tangled this ball all the time, only at the end of throwing us a thin tail, which could have pulled and reached the solution.
Let's spin this thread from the end, that is, from the fourth season of the series, and see where it will lead us. The key character of the fourth season, of course, is an ultra-genius, completely devoid of conscience representative of the Holmes family, unbelievable even by their standards. Let's leave genius alone for now and try to understand our humble mind, who is Evr Holmes, as a representative of the genus Homo Sapiens. Let's turn to medicine and look at the following set of features:
Emotional and interpersonal features - chattiness and superficiality:
-egocentricity and pretentiousness;
-absence of guilt and regret;
-absence of empathy;
-cunning and tendency to manipulate others;
-superficiality of emotions.
Features of social behavior:
-impulsiveness;
- weak behavioral control;
- the need for mental arousal;
-irresponsibility;
-problem behavior in childhood;
-antisocial behavior in adult life.
Let's remember the communication with the warden of the prison; pretentiousness - Fort Boyard in Sherrynford, appropriately furnished; absence of guilt and regret - killed as a result of the quest, killed by a psychotherapist; cunning and the tendency to manipulate others - subordination of all the staff of Sherrynford; superficiality of emotions - there is no understanding of them at all, there is only an attempt of demonstration; about problem behavior in childhood and antisocial behavior in adult life should not even be mentioned, everyone remembers everything. The above signs, taken from Haer Robert's book "Deprived of conscience. Frightening the world of psychopaths", fully describe the image of a classic psychopath. The conclusion is obvious: Eure is a complete psychopath, just like from a textbook. In general, the theme of psychopathy and its carriers in the series is just a red neon line of huge size, it is difficult to remember the serial villain with good old motives - money, jealousy, revenge, envy, love in the end. There are petty criminals, but they are lost against the background of the main, so to speak, contingent: Jim Moriarty is a psycho of the first article, and it does not demand proofs, the taxi driver from Et here, despite selfish motives, enjoys murders, and it is a sign of mania, Magnoussen is looking for no benefit, he likes to humiliate and destroy, about Calverton Smith, having fun with corpses, and there is nothing to say, one of this fact is enough. The world of evil in Sherlock is a world of at least unhealthy scoundrels. The spiritual health of the "gray" characters is also in question. Mary, who did not hesitate to shoot at a man who she considered a friend, and whose profession of killer does not involve excess conscience, is clearly the same kind of psychopath. A more socially adapted version, but nevertheless. As Magnoussen correctly remarked, because the fisherman sees from afar, the Watson family - "Mr. and Mrs. Psychopaths".After revealing Mary in the "Empty House", in scene 3-3 on Baker Street, to which we will return, Sherlock literally describes all this impossible world: "John, you chose a wife-killer, you chose a friend, a psychopath, and the mistress of our former pylon worker, because you are the one and you like it all. Now let's reread the signs of a psychopath once again. Who else gets under them? Ba, of course, Sherlock himself is a liar, he is a manipulator, he knows how to charm (poor Molly), regularly unscrupulously and quite calmly sets up Watson in a big and trifling way (let's remember how John was thrown with a can of paint "at the scene of the crime" or the same Baskerville, not to mention missing Tuesday). Plus in life psychopaths love to walk on the edge of the blade, they are fearless, because they are emotionally poor, they know how to benefit where others will be ashamed, and they have no sense of guilt.