ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

Comparison of Jung's and Maslow's theories with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life and career



Comparison of Jung's and Maslow's theories with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life and career

Introduction

There are writers who become overridden by their own characters, so much so that everyone gets to know who this character is and his adventures, but ignores the full name or know who the creator of the character is. A striking example of this is Arthur Conan Doyle. The literary style of Arthur Conan Doyle is very unique. For example the characters: the bad guys are bad in all respect, without any trace of kindness and define a simple look. Characters are usually featured with dark eyebrows, face almost prehistoric, with primitive and fierce look, and are generally ugly and unattractive to others. That is, they look that defines them. This paper in its first section critically analyzes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life and career in a biographic manner in order to look precisely into the minute details of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life and career. In the second section the paper discusses the two theories that have been compared and contrasted to each other with reference to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life and career. Finally in the third section the comparison and contrast is given.

Discussion

Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 22, 1859. His mother, Mary Foley, Irish and was a descendant of the famous Percy family of Northumberland, in the line of Plantagenet. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was a little ambitious officer who nevertheless had some artistic talent. When he lost his job, he sank into alcoholism and was interned after severe seizures, before dying in 1893. Three brothers distinguished themselves in England: James wrote The Chronicles of England, Henry was director of the National Gallery in Dublin and Richard was one of the most famous illustrators of Punch (Booth, 2000).

Arthur is the second in seven children (Annette Constance, Caroline Innes, Ida and Julia). His education begins at home then a small school in Edinburgh. At age nine, he entered the Jesuit College of Hodder in Lancashire to prepare for admission to the Public School Stonyhurst. It does two years later and already starting to get excited about literature: Walter Scott, Jules Verne or Macaulay. He even founded a small magazine: Le Figaro Stonyhurst. However, Jesuit education does not suit little and when he left school in 1875; he completely rejected Christianity, preferring to be agnostic. However, he spends another year in a Jesuit school at Feldkirch in Austria to improve his German. In 1876 he began his medical studies at the Faculty of Edinburgh (Barsham, 2000).

There he met two men who influence the selection of its future hero of romance: Professor Rutherford, whose Assyrian beard, booming voice and wide chest, inspire him to Professor George Edward Challenger, and Dr. Joseph Bell, professor of surgery, whose amazing deductions on his patients and their disease did germinate the idea of ??a detective ...