Introduction
“The Hound of the Baskervilles” was first published by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle in 1901 where it was printed chapter by chapter in the
Strand newspaper. It was well written for a newspaper, as the chapters
were left on a cliff-hanger which makes you want to read the next
edition. Only a year later the novel was printed in the form of a
novel by “Newnes” a well known book publisher at the time. The
narrator of the story is Doctor Watson and is told entirely from his
point of view, although the author regularly switches from straight
narrative to diary form also letters home.
It is in chapter 2 when a hint of fear is first introduced into the
novel. Doctor Mortimer reads the legend of “The Hound of the
Baskervilles” to both Sherlock Holmes and Watson. This legend is
written in a very old and archaic fashion, and uses very vivid
language. It is within the legend where fear is started with the
revellers reaction to the Hound “Their skins turned cold” also “Raised
hair upon their heads” The same part also states that of the men that
died that night the rest were “broken men for the rest of their days”
As the chapter continues along with the legend we begin to get told
descriptions of the hound. These add to the fear by giving the hound
larger than life features, almost supernatural “blazing eye… Dripping
Jaw” also “larger then any hound mortal eyes had rested on” The fear
is heightened at the end of the legend as it gives a warning to future
Baskervilles “forbear from crossing the moor… When the powers of evil
are exalted” I think this last line really adds to the atmosphere. As
we continue the fear is collapsed by Holmes’s logic “only interesting
to a collector of fairy tales”
The next part of the chapter involves Doctor Mortimer reading an up to
date newspaper article regarding Sir Charles’s death. In particular
the description of Sir Charles’s face after his death re-instates the
fear, “incredible facial distortion”. Also that Doctor Mortimer, (One
of Sir Charles’s closest friends) could not recognise him.
At the very end of chapter Two the fear is brought to a climax as
Doctor Mortimer tells Holmes and Watson that near Sir Charles’s body,
he had seen the “footprint of a gigantic hound”
It is in the third chapter that Holmes takes in all the new
information Doctor Mortimer has informs him. In my opinion the legend
has had an impact, especially on Watson “A shudder passed through me”.
Doctor Mortimer gives the idea that there is a hound strength he
At the beginning of the novel, boys were fighting and dying, and yet, the only person who seemed to realize that t...
fear, this fear persuades the reader of this idea by making the reader experiencing the horror of
the chapter he goes to visit the mother of his dead friend, Kemmerich. While there he tells
of the novel is that at the beginning of the extract we do not know
Hound Of The Baskervilles & nbsp; & nbsp; Setting - About 1884-85, most of the story takes place at Baskerville. Hall in Devonshire, England. The introduction and the conclusion of this classic mystery occurs in Sherlock. Holmes' residence on Baker Street in London. Plot- We begin our story on Baker Street where Holmes and Watson talk to James.
builds on top of this fear. Once he is in contact with Mary, his fears and hate
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from sympathy to fear within the readers. However, out of all the notions and events that
the beginning of all the bad events that occur in the remaining of the novel.
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