Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s telling of The Hound of the Baskervilles opens in 19th century England. Sherlock and his assistant, Dr. Watson, are visited by James Mortimer, friend of Sir Charles Baskerville, recently deceased with his cause of death feared to be a hound out for Baskerville blood. Mortimer shares with Sherlock and Watson the curse of the Baskervilles. The curse started with Hugo Baskerville, a horrible ancestor of the Baskervilles who kidnapped a young village girl and held her hostage. Hugo Baskerville was allegedly met by a hellish hound leading to his untimely death while he chased his victim through the moors. Since the time of Hugo Baskerville, Mortimer relates, all Baskervilles have been stalked by the hellish hound. With the …show more content…
Watson arrives in Devonshire to chaos resulting from a search for an escaped convict. Watson makes the acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore, the housekeepers, and the neighbors, Mr. Jack Stapleton and his sister, Miss Beryl Stapleton. Watson observes a series of strange happenings quickly upon his arrival to Baskerville Hall. Mr. Barrymore skulks through empty rooms, Beryl Stapleton tells Watson to leave, someone is seen in the moors, and Watson find out about a note requesting a meeting with Laura Lyons on the night he was found dead. In short order these mysterious happenings are revealed to be easily explained. Mr. Barrymore is aiding the escaped convict, the brother of his wife, Mrs. Barrymore, Beryl mistook Watson for Henry when she told him to leave because she knew her husband, not brother, Jack Stapleton could inherit the Baskerville estate, but she was too frightened of her husband to be forthcoming, and Laura Lyons is merely a player in Jack Stapleton’s villainous game. Watson learns that the man seen in the moors was Sherlock, piecing together bits of the puzzle in secret. When Watson and Sherlock convene, the mystery unravels in its
Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the greatest American novels ever written. The story is about Huck, a young boy who is coming of age and is escaping from his drunken father. Along the way he stumbles across Miss Watson's slave, Jim, who has run away because he overhead that he would be sold. Throughout the story, Huck is faced with the moral dilemma of whether or not to turn Jim in. Mark Twain has purposely placed these two polar opposites together in order to make a satire of the society's institution of slavery. Along the journey, Twain implies his values through Huck on slavery, the two-facedness of society, and represents ideas with the Mississippi River.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-02) questions the codes of masculinity and English identity not only through the characters of Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. John Watson, but also through Sir Henry Baskerville, Jack Stapleton, Selden and other characters.
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First, I’m going to talk about the belief in the curse. Without this idea, the book would have never published. In this story, those people who were in the lower class all believed in the curse, the greatest part were peasant. They were scared of the sacred hound. The legend about the dog obsessed them. Maybe it was because they had little knowledge so they believe in all the rumors. By the way, some of the upper class were believed in the curse somehow, but almost all of them did not. Of course, Sherlock Holmes, Dr.Watson, and some others did not believe it, but sir Henry. First he did not believe about it. He intended to find out all the dark behind the legend about the hound that haunted the Baskervilles. As time passed by, he progressively changed his mind. Another person from the upper class who was really scared of the hound was sir Charles. He was so superstitious and panic that he chose the way to leave Baskervilles Hall. But in the end, he died right after he saw the big hound; he died because of the heart attack, because of the fear of being haunted by the big hound. In other word, both the upper class and lower class had the same fear but with differrent viewpoints. While the lower cl...
Comparing Roald Dahl’s Lamb to the Slaughter and The Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Thousands of readers made complaints and the once well known cult figure had been feared to be gone forever. For a couple of years Conan Doyle avoided the reader's. complaints but Doyle eventually buckled under stress and wrote a book. called "The Hound of the Baskervilles". A story set before the tragic ending of Sherlock Holmes.
Charles Dickens utilizes his life for inspiration for the protagonist Pip in his novel Great Expectations. They both struggle with their social standing. Dickens loved plays and theatre and therefore incorporated them into Pip’s life. Dickens died happy in the middle class and Pip died happy in the middle class. The connection Dickens makes with his life to Pip’s life is undeniable. If readers understand Dickens and his upbringing then readers can understand how and why he created Pip’s upbringing. Charles Dickens’ life, full of highs and lows, mirrors that of Pip’s life. Their lives began the same and ended the same. To understand the difficulty of Dickens’ childhood is to understand why his writing focuses on the English social structure. Dickens’ life revolved around social standing. He was born in the lower class but wasn’t miserable. After his father fell into tremendous debt he was forced into work at a young age. He had to work his way to a higher social standing. Because of Dicken’s constant fighting of class the English social structure is buried beneath the surface in nearly all of his writings. In Great Expectations Pip’s life mirrors Dickens’ in the start of low class and the rise to a comfortable life. Fortunately for Dickens, he does not fall again as Pip does. However, Pip and Dickens both end up in a stable social standing.
The scientific and technological advancements of the early 20th century entered people’s daily lives with the intention of bringing the whole of humanity into a brighter, more modern era. However, the darker side of such immense achievement was the increasing encroachment on the previously untouched natural world. Many great minds grew weary of such advances and conveyed their apprehension through the popular literature of the time. The pivotal novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy explores the impact that industrialists with access to technology had on the pastoral countryside and lower classes. Conan Doyle expands on this message in his novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, by examining how the well-educated elite began using science to their advantage, threatening nature in the process. While each novel warns against abusing available technologies, the authors differ in how they believe nature will eventually respond and have incited a debate that has lasted well into the 21st century.
As the saying goes, “Women can do everything Men can do.” In the Gothic Novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, there is a constant theme of sexuality, from both male and females in society. In the Victorian era, the roles of male and females have caused a lot of tension. After reading Dracula, some would argue the roles men and women hold in society. As mentioned in Dr. Seward’s Dairy from Val Halsing., “Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man’s brain—a brain that a man should have were he much gifted—and a woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination” (Stoker and Hindle, 2003 250). A women’s mind is not the always the first thing on a males mind. Some would overlook what a woman really has to offer.
In The Hound of the Baskervilles, various factors of Arthur Conan Doyle’s early life, popularity, perspective, and status were all expressed in multiple ways. Spiritualism played an crucial role in his life, greatly impacting his work, specifically “The Hound.” Additionally, his birthplace and upbringing, along with the time period, inveigled his writing. Furthermore, Doyle characterized the people in the story in along with real life scenarios.
The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard For this unit, the play which we are studying is "The Real Inspector." Hound" written by Tom Stoppard, an English playwright famous for his clever use of language and ironic political metaphors. Stoppard was associated theatre of the absurd, and often his play referred to the meaninglessness of the human condition. He combined English tradition of the "comedy of manners" (a play that attacks the customs).
As Sherlock examines the estate, he could not help but notice particularly strange features throughout the building. One being a fake bell rope that hung down a ventilator and Helen’s bed being clamped on the floor. Dr. Roylott had forced Helen to sleep in Julia’s room because of construction work done on the estate and considering they never had to do modifications on the house, it had seemed suspicious. In the estate, there were many exotic animals from India such as cheetahs, baboons, and snakes. As Sherlock observed Dr. Roylott’s room he saw a worn out chair that was seemed as if it was out of place. Before Sherlock could leave, he was threatened by Dr. Roylott to not interfere with his life. However, Sherlock remained composed and was undismayed by Dr. Roylott’s threat. These events reveal that Sherlock is observant and clever. Dr. Roylott was the complete opposite since he was aggressive and intimidating. Sherlock and Watson arrange a plan to sneak into Helen’s room at night and she would discreetly stay awake as they would catch the killer and as night sets in their plan would go to action. When the time of their plan had come, the mood shifts from serious to petrifying while the tone shifts from anxious to
The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the movie The Hound of the Baskervilles directed by Jeremy Bret are two works of art that are mainly telling the same story. There are, however, many differences about the book and the movie. Those differences don’t affect the outcome of the story, but they give less impact to the story. Along with the differences there are many similarities, and those similarities give you confidence that it is the same story.
The Victorian Age was a virtuous era, full of chaste women and hard-working men. As with any seemingly utopian society, there are the misfits: those who always seem to go against the grain. Hidden in the shadows of towns were bastardized babies and public outcasts. The flourishing literature of the era attacks the societal stereotypes and standards that make for such failures and devastating tragedies. In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, Tess Durbeyfield's initial loss of innocence brings her down to an insurmountable low, and the victorian society, of which she is a part, dooms her to a horrible fate with its "normal" shunning of her innocent misbehaviors. Tess' rapid downward spiral to her death is caused by the chauvinistic actions of the men in the story, solidified by society's loss of acceptance of Tess based on the actions taken against her, and brought to home by Tess' imminent doom to the rigid ways of the Victorian society.
The Baskerville Hall symbolizes paranoia and doom to all the Baskerville members that reside there. Watson describes Sir Henry’s reaction to the hall as he looks at the hall up close. He says, “Baskerville shuddered as her looked up the long, dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end” (41). This shows that Sir Henry, the last heir to the estate and wealth of the family, feels a bit scared and is quite anxious about the ghostly atmosphere that envelops Baskerville Hall. Dr. Mortimer, a family friend of the Baskervilles and a doctor, tells Sherlock...