In your view, do you think Sherlock is an empathic character?

              Last Wednesday, I watched Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Pink for Critical Literacy and I found that it is an interesting movie. This movie is full of suspicious and humor although “lame” is the first word that crossed my mind when I heard about the title. Empathic can be defined as "I can feel it too" or an understanding on others' feeling and in my opinion, Sherlock Holmes is an empathic character as he has the ability to read people life by putting himself in their shoes. At the first time, Sherlock seems to be a left-brain person as he does not care about people around him and for instance is when he is more excited to solve the mysterious crime than helping the last victim who is the pink woman. However, there are some parts where he puts himself in the victims’ place to find the right clue for the cases.

               First, the empathy moment can be shown when Sherlock asks Dr. John H. Watson to text the victim’s phone number as he said that if other people who find the phone will ignore it but if the murderer has the phone then the murderer will panic. He knows all of these things as he imagines that it was him who is the murderer.

               Second, in this movie it shows that Sherlock has helped some people who used to be criminals to others but not for him. For example is Mrs Hudson’s husband who he had been helped by Sherlock from not to be sentenced to death three years ago. It is because Sherlock put himself to Mrs Hudson’s husband position and believed that he is innocent. Other than that is he cleared Angelo’s name as a murder by proving that Angelo at different part of town at the time of a particularly vicious triple murder about three years ago.

               Third, Sherlock asked Dr. Watson “if you were dying, if you’d been murdered, in your very last few seconds, what would you say?” From this we can see that Sherlock is trying to be in the victim’s place to figure out the meaning of “Rache” that he believes as “Rachel”.

The other questions that he asked to himself are “who do we trust, even if we don’t know them?”,  “who passes unnoticed wherever they go?” and “who hunts in the middle of a crowd?” that show he is trying to be in the victims’ mind and feeling before they have been murdered.

               Fourth, Sherlock tries to figure out who shots the murderer by examining the ways of the shooter. He describes every angel and side of the shot incident as he is the one who be in that place at that time and finally he finds out that it was Dr. John Watson.

               In conclusion, Sherlock Holmes is an empathic character as he can read others’ mind, feeling and life by being in the others’ place. He even uses his speciality in solving the crimes which is his addiction.