Having read a range of detective stories by Conan Doyle, compare the
presentations of victims and villains in The Speckled Band and two
other stories.
In this essay, I am going to look at how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has
written the Sherlock Holmes stories, looking at the victims, villains,
Holmes and his dear friend Watson. The Sherlock Holmes, stories are
written in the detective genre, all of the stories that I have looked
at to compile this essay, have a crime, victims, and villains. It also
shows this as there is always a crime that Sherlock Holmes solves, by
his intelligence. The intended audience of the stories, I think is for
adults, even though there maybe some younger readers, but they may not
understand the story line. There are lots of stories within the
collection of Sherlock Holmes. These include The Speckled Band, The
Cardboard Box, and The Red Headed League. Other stories within the
collection are, ‘The Man With The Twisted Lip’, this story, is set in
the East of London. The crime to be solved is a disappearance of
Neville St Claire, the villain if Hugh Boone, this is actually Neville
disguised, as he faked his own death. Another of the stories within
the collection is, ‘Silver Blaze’, the crime in this story, is that of
a race horse that has been stolen and also the murder of the horses’
trainer. The story line is of, a horse race in which one of the people
competing murders another of the competitors so they can have an edge
in the race.
Our expectations of the victims in the stories of Sherlock Holmes, are
that the victims, are quiet rich, posh and vulnerable, and they are
expected to easily get attacked by the villain or villains in the
story. We also expect the victims to be adult,...
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...he crime solving then at least
tell Sherlock Holmes what happened straight away.
In conclusion all three stories follow the same pattern of being a
detective story with Sherlock Holmes solving the crime and his physic
Dr. Watson being there if he is needed. The presentation of victims
and villains within the stories may have been like what the victims
and villains were like at the time when the story was written, but
nowadays the description of them in the story would not be classed as
correct, this is due to the boom in technology. I prefer a quick read
with more action and less description, as if you are going to put a
lot of description in a short story, it can dramatically add to its
length. But at the same time the characters must be detailed and the
storyline must be fully developed, for the reader to be able to see
what is happening in the story.
The birth of classic detective fiction was originated just in the mid nineteenth century, and was producing its own genre. Classical detective fiction follows a set of rules called the ‘Ten commandments of detective fiction’. The genre is so popular it can bee seen by the number of sales in any good book stores. Many of these books have been created a long time ago and there is still a demand for these types of books. The popularity is still ongoing because it provides constant entertainment, and also the reader can also have a role of detective trying to solve the crime/case committed. Classical detective fiction has a formula, the detective story starts with a seemingly irresolvable mystery, typically a murder, features the astute, often unconventional detective, a wrongly accused suspect to whom the circumstantial evidence points, and concludes with a startling or unexpected solution to the mystery, during which the detective explains how he or she solved the mystery. Formula that includes certain elements such as, a closed location to keep the number of suspects down, red hearings spread around the stories to keep the reader entertained yet interacted.
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