Essay On The Adventure Of The Speckled Band

In the story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” the author Conan Doyle portrays many different narrative techniques. He uses these techniques to provide meaning for the audience as well as help them visualize the situation that was being described. The different techniques used are narrative discourse, suspense, conflict, close, and focalization in his story. Narrative discourses are events, to describe a series of events that are contingent one on another. Typically focuses on one or more performers of actions. Personal experience can influence narrative discourse due to the explaining of significant events in the life of the narrator. Narrative discourse is made up of exposition/ setting, developing conflict, climax, final suspense, and conclusion. The narrative discourse is being portrait in the story by Sherlock trying to find the mystery. Helen Stoner goes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for help on figuring out the mystery of her sister’s death, and they both investigate. It all begins with the renovation that was done to the room. Holmes arrived to Dr. Grimesby Roylott’s home in order to investigate the noise that his daughter seemed to be hearing from the bedroom that the sister was killed in. Holmes describes the room “very strange” he found the ventilator open into another room as well as the bell-rope. The ventilator was the small opening between two rooms as well as the bed was fastened to the floor. “A ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who

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,

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the author of the story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”. In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” the main characters are Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Helen Stoner, and Dr. Roylott. The story takes place in April 1883 at the Roylott, Stoke Maron Manor. The exposition is when Helen thoroughly explained her case to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The main conflict is Helen Stoner fears for her life and has suspicions about her sister’s death on the eve of her marriage. After Helen enlightened the two detectives on her predicament, Helen was informed that her case was extremely dire and she should be aware of the dangers of being in the house.

Sherlock waited for a long time in a pitch-black room; Watson was near him with his revolver in hand. A hiss sounded as Sherlock had lit a match, suddenly blinding Watson. Sherlock hit something that Watson- who was narrating the story- was too blinded to see. Once Watson’s eyes had adjusted, Sherlock led him into Dr.Roylott’s room. The detective pair had found Dr. Roylott dead with the ‘speckled band’- a swamp adder- upon his head. Since Dr. Roylott had been killed, Sherlock had been released from his animosity, Helen from his abuse, and society from his scourge. Generally, everyone was content now that they were free from Dr. Roylott. Later, Watson inquired to Sherlock about how he solved the

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Roylott in The Speckled Band proves Nietzsche’s idea to be true. Roylott is in a conflict with his stepdaughters. He planned to remove both daughters before they get married because under the mother’s will, both daughters will take an amount of money with them when they get married. This angered Roylott because this meant he would have less money. Helen’s sister has died two years ago, shortly before she was about to get married. Helen had heard her sister’s words the moment before she died, “The speckled band!” but she had been unable to understand the meaning. Now Helen, too, is engaged, and she has began to hear strange noises. Holmes listens carefully to Helen’s story and agrees to take the case. Holmes and Watson arrange to spend the night in Helen’s room. Little did they know, Roylott planned to kill Helen with the same method he used on his first stepdaughter. Vivid imagery was used in the climax as they waited in the darkness; “Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. Then suddenly another sound became audible- a very, gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of stream escaping continually from a kettle.” The slight noise and dim light through the ventilator stimulates Holmes to take action. The suspense foreshadows something bad is going to happen. Holmes discovers on the bell cord the “speckled band”, a poisonous snake. Roylott’s actions proves Nietzsche’s ideas to be true because his strong desire for money has corrupted him thus leading him to do worse things such as killing his two

Due to Holmes’ suspicion he and Watson desired to investigate further; they departed to Stoke Moran. They revealed some interesting clues. First of all, the bed was clamped to the floor, there were metallic bars on the windows, along with a forged bell chord attached to a ventilator. Holmes soon found out that the ventilator was connected to Dr. Roylott 's room. This made Sherlock curious, wanting to know more. Helen was a young woman who was frightened of the strong and abusive, Dr. Roylott. She had prearranged to switch places with Sherlock and Watson so they could resolve the case once and for all. She exchanged places after Dr. Roylott was “asleep”. When Sherlock and Holmes arrived to Stoke Moran, they waited and waited. During the middle of the story, both the mood and tone shift. The mood soon became petrified. The tone soon also became something else, challenging. Sherlock Holmes and

'Lamb to the Slaughter ' and 'The Speckled Band ' are both stories based around a suspicious death. Roald Dahl wrote 'Lamb to the Slaughter ' in 1954. Roald Dahl is famous for writing children 's stories, like George 's Marvellous Medicine and James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dalh also writes stories for adults. They are usually about ordinary people doing strange things. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 'The Speckled Band ' in 1892. His stories are about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Before readings this story I knew that Sherlock Holmes was a famous detective working with fellow college Doctor Watson and Scotland Yard.

While the men in the story where playing Sherlock Holmes looking for evidence that Mrs. Wright killed her husband, they missed the bad fruit and the bread left out of the bow, a quilt that was not finished and had a few bad stiches, an unclean table and a birdcage that was empty. They were so determined to find specific clues of the murder, that they missed the clues of the emotional abuse that Mrs. Wright was subjected to from her husband. They were also so busy criticizing everything that Mrs. Wright did or did not do, that they missed everything that was right in front of their eyes. They even slipped with some sexist remarks Mr. Hale says ‘Well, women are used to worrying over trifles’, not realizing that the women were in the room.

The story “Adventure of the Speckled Band” is about a detective working through a case of a girl’s mysterious death. Accompanying this detective during the case is a friend named Dr. Watson who is the narrator of this story. Sherlock Holmes, greatest detective of all time, came to the conclusion that “Doctors make the greatest criminals” on the way up to the mansion for several reasons.

The Speckled Band “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact”(Doyle). The story, “The Speckled Band,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, is about a woman who thinks she is in danger and comes to Holmes for protection. The element that seems to stand out is the plot. The story starts off slowly, and then it gets more interesting and dramatic as Holmes and Watson solve the case. (Thesis) Plot is the main element of the story that connects Doyle’s life to the story.

Sherlock Homes entered DR.Roylott’s room to see him dead with the speckled band laying across his forehead. This made the story give off an uplifting tone because there is nothing else to worry about counting that it will not occur again. A happy mood struck all the readers with the joy that Helen could now get married and that she has the relief that no one is trying to take her money. “The adventure of the speckled Band” was indeed a foul play story. There were numerous true clues and several red herrings to support.

In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes was trying to figure out the purpose of Julia Stoner’s mysterious death. As Sherlock Holmes was solving the mystery, he was not responsible for the impending death of Dr. Roylott. Dr. Roylott stayed seated in his worn out chair on purpose. Furthermore, Sherlock Holmes was striving to protect peers from the swamp adder-

In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, a mystery suspense short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the mystery elements of of Red Herrings, many possible suspects and accumulating clues create suspense. Before Julia died, her last words said were something of a Speckled Band. Sherlock mentions this when Helen, Julia’ sister goes to Sherlock’s home to have a case created. “‘Were there gypsies at the plantation at the time?’ ” questioned Sherlock (Doyle ).

At the beginning of the story, Doyle uses the whodunit plot and lets the imagination of the readers run wild. When Miss Stoner explains the odd death of her sister, she tells Sherlock what her sister told her days before she died,” During the last few nights I have always, about three in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle.