Dr. Roylott's The Adventure Of The Speckled Band

The reason why Dr Roylott murdered Julia was the intention that he would gain money which shows his greediness and the extent he would go to to get what he wants. Also, when he meets Holmes he treats him with hostility and bends a "steel poker" into a curve and throws

When H.H. Holmes arrives in Chicago, he looks like any other ambitious young doctor braving the journey to the Windy City to start a new life. “He walked with confidence and dressed well, conjuring an impression of wealth and achievement. He was twenty-six years old… He had dark hair and striking blue eyes, once likened to the eyes of a Mesmerist,” describes the author. Larson cites a physician, John L. Capen, “‘Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes’” (35). In including this citation, Larson clues the reader in on Holmes’ true nature in addition to eliciting a feeling of unease through his diction. With this first impression, the reader is already wary of Holmes and his actions. Larson further solidifies this distrust with the following passages. “The city had impressed [Holmes], he said later, which was surprising because as a rule nothing impressed him, nothing moved him. Events and people captured his attention the way moving objects caught the notice of an amphibian: first a machinelike registration of proximity, next to calculation of worth, and last is a decision to act or remain motionless.” (37) With this quotation, Larson explains how Holmes chose

Doyle makes the solution in “The Speckled Band” very unreasonable. Doyle makes the solution where Roylott is using a snake to kill off his daughters, but the clues and evidence do not lead in that direction. Holmes must think creatively to come up with that solution, but readers would not have come up with that same conclusion based off the evidence.

Beginning at a young age Hermet Mudgett, who later changes his name to H. H. Holmes, was intrigued by the life style present in the city of Chicago. He believed Chicago was “a city that allowed a broader range of behavior than as tolerated in the town in which he was born” according to Larson. However looking into his even younger years it can be seen that Holmes was a child full of fears rather than someone to be feared. As a child he was afraid of doctor’s although some childhood friends forced the fear out of him, leaving a curiosity that followed throughout the rest of his life. This traumatic experience as a child being forced to look eye to eye with a skeleton lead him to being intrigued rather than distraught. Holmes described this experience in the

Holmes had everything he could ever want, which was great for him of course. His childhood was very privileged, and he enjoyed it. People told his family that he was a very intelligent kid for his age. Holmes was treated well. As he grew up, he got interested in the art of medicine. He graduated from the University of Michigan. Holmes was married twice. Holmes was treated well there as well. He passed his exam to practice medicine. He was always treated well, he was smart. He was looked as an equal. This led Holmes to animal experiment and also used corpses as experimental subjects. Holmes also stole corpses and used them to make fake insurance claims. There were rumors that indicates that he was responsible for his friend’s death. That was the first rumored victim of Homes later on he got a job in a pharmacy. Which Holmes convinced the pharmacy wife’s owner to sell him the pharmacy due to his suppose claims that the owner had “passed away”, and it was rumored that he killed the owner of the pharmacy. Then one day the wife went missing, to which Holmes claimed that she had moved to California. But it’s

Holmes impulses to experiment with animals did not cease throughout his childhood after those events. He would discover forest animals close to his home in the neighboring woods, and dismember them to learn more about their anatomy and physiology. (Bailin, 2008). This didn’t only provide Holmes the knowledge of how to dismember, but it also provided him the psychological enabler to fuel his delusions. It is quite possible that Holmes obsession with death may have driven him to murder at the young age of 11, disguising it as an accident. Holmes had a friend who was older than him named Tom, and they would sometimes hangout. On one particular occasion, Tom and Holmes were exploring an abandoned home. Holmes recalls during their exploration, seeing Tom Fall off a landing to his death, but many speculate that Holmes may have pushed him. (Schechter, 2003).

As an investigator, Sherlock Holmes was not guilty for the demise of Dr. Roylott. The story, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, when in the room of Helen Stoner, waited for evidence for the cause of Julia Stoner’s death. When both men traveled to the room of Dr. Roylott, they saw that Dr. Roylott was dead, with the speckled band-the deadliest snake in India- wrapped around Dr. Roylott’s head. The cause of Dr.Roylott’s death was not Sherlock Holmes’s accountability. Dr. Roylott had knowledge about animals from India; therefore he should have been able to control the snake. Additionally, Dr. Roylott never ended up dying when trying to kill Julia,

“SUICIDE?” I exclaimed. The eyes of my father and investigator Christensen fell upon me, burning holes through my flesh. “Yes Sherlock, suicide.” Father said. My older brother Mycroft kicked me under the table. “Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” investigator Christensen said glaring at

Dr. Holmes was an infamous con artist and serial killer. Born as Herman Mudgett, Dr. Holmes, experimented on pets and other common forest animals. He tortured these animals, dissecting them while they were still alive, practicing and increasing his knowledge on how long a living animal could survive with the excruciating pain deriving from Henry’s torture. As an adult, Henry documented in his autobiography that while visiting his doctor as a child, older boys would shove human display skeletons in his way, terrifying him. Therapists and the

While Mr. Holmes was a serious and a brilliant London-based detective. Holmes is renowned for his ability at using rationale and an intelligent observation in solving the case. “It is murder, Watson refined, cold-blooded, deliberate murder.” The Hound of the Baskerville, page 144. As Watson said, “All of my unspoken instincts, my vague suspicions, suddenly took shape and centered upon the naturalist.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle explores mysteries through the eyes of Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes’s assistant. Holmes is able to amaze the people around him with his deductive abilities and can quickly determine aspects of a person’s life by just looking at them. This allows him to solve mysteries that others cannot wrap their heads around. He uses his skill to first help the King of Bohemia recover a picture of him with a former lover. Next, he investigates the disappearance of the Red-Headed League. In both of these mysteries he experiences a unique challenge due to the intelligence of his opponents and the unusual situation surrounding the case. The cunning and cleverness of Holmes, Irene Adler and the conspirators of the Red-Headed League are shown in the stories “The Red-Headed League” and “A Scandal in Bohemia”.

Before Sherlock and Watson could prepare for their departure to Stoke Moran, Dr. Roylott barged into Baker Street-the residence of Sherlock. Dr. Roylott had aggressively threatened Sherlock, Sherlock replied with a calm and cold face. Dr.Watson, brave and loyal to Sherlock as ever, stood beside Sherlock in the face of the blaze and bluster of Dr.Roylott. The rude doctor left Baker Street; he had achieved enmity with Sherlock on top of his conflicts

The Speckled Band by Sherlock Holmes Detective stories first became popular in the Victorian era following the emergence of organized police forces in the 1830's. Fascination with the criminal heros accompanied a corresponding interest in the methodical uncovering of crime. Public hangings were frequent and Victorian people feared crime greatly. This meant that when the detective stories came about they felt the fictional character that cracked every case became the perfect detective i.e. Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes. SherlockHolmes was actually an amateur detective not a member of the London plaice force and the Victorians had a deep resentment against the police, as they were

[said Dr. Holmes] in the most amiable way in the world. “Talking nonsense to frighten your wife?”” (Woolf, p.94). As the doctor, Dr. Holmes should not have said that. Dr. Holmes showed a disregard for Septimus’ issue and treated it just like all the other people (human nature) of the time by disregarding his illness and looking at it as nonsense.

In the story “A Scandal in Bohemia,” we get a glimpse of Holmes’s character, a natural mastermind, through John Watson's narration. As with any narrated scene, our perception of Holmes