Importance Of Chaos In John Arthur Doyle's 'Five Orange Pips'

“Upset the established order and everything becomes chaos…you know the thing about chaos? Its fair (Heath Ledger as the Joker in “The Dark Knight”)”. Now, these pip killers are no Joker, however, in both of these tales, it shows that a little chaos can eradicate the established order. The Joker showed us that civilized people are only as civilized as the world allows them to be and in “Five Orange Pips” the pip killers showed us that even the most careful can fall from grace. The Five Orange Pips by John Arthur Doyle is about chaos and reveals that chaos is a catalyst for fear and vengeance. Chaos is unpredictable and from that unpredictability comes fear. In the Five Orange Pips by Arthur Doyle, the Openshaws are all affected by the letter

We, as a people, universally say that vengeance is bad because it doesn’t solve anything and most cases makes things worse. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that all kinds of vengeance are bad. In many cases, it seems justified. For example, in “Taken”, Liam Neison’s character goes on a rampage trying to save his daughter from a Russian sex trafficking gang. We, as an audience, had no issue with this, because we believed that those Russians deserved to get throat punched. This explains to me, that not only do we, as a society, believe in order and justice. We also see the fairness and the self-satisfaction of vengeance. Doyle tries to display this idea in the “Five Orange Pips”. At the conclusion to the short story, Holmes is explaining his findings to Watson and mentions, “We did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a …boat was seen swinging in the trough of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is all which we shall ever know of the fate of the Lone Star.” (page 20). This provides satisfaction for the reader, knowing that these murderers got what they deserved makes the audience feel relieved. If you think in a moral sense, that seems barbaric because if mankind were truly masters of order and justice we wouldn’t receive any satisfaction from men being killed on a