How Does Doyle's Research Have Influenced His Writing?

Sherlock Holmes novels are the face of mystery, featuring literature’s greatest detective, but one might ask, how does The Hound of the Baskervilles fit into the genre’s common conventions? Mystery being a sub genre of genre fiction novels, it has many common conventions found throughout the majority of the novels. In the average mystery, the plot focuses around a crime, commonly a murder or a robbery, in which the culprit must be found by the protagonist. The crime in Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles is that Sir Charles Baskerville has been murdered, or frightened to the point of death. Generally the protagonist who solves the mystery, has a dominant character flaw and/or defining characteristic which aids them in cracking

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, who lived in the 19th century. The literary critics tend to believe that he was the writer to invent the genre of detective fiction. As for the peculiarities of his writing style, it should be noted that he preferred gothic style, which was more appealing to the public. Among the topics he described were death and its signs, loss, darkness, etc. As for the biographic influences, it should be noted that Poe’s parents died when he was young and, therefore, this may partially serve as the explanation of the dark motives in his writings. There were many obstacles in his life and one of them was that he was earning his living by means of writing only.

HOW DOES CHARLES DICKENS CREATE SUSPENSE IN THE SIGNAL MAN? Dickens creates suspense in 'the signal man' by keeping us interested in a number of ways. He portrays the mysterious and deadly setting, the introduction of the signal man and the impression of the narrator fully.

In this essay, I am going to look at how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has

Edgar Allan Poe’s influence on American literature was nothing short of great; not only was he the creator of the detective story and the horror thriller, but he also influenced many great writers, among those William Faulkner and Fyodor Dostoevsky. While Poe is best known for his horror thrillers, being the creator of that particular genre, he has also fashioned two other literary genres, like the detective and the science fiction genre. Throughout his life, Poe read, reviewed, and critiqued many books for various magazines and papers. Poe did not hesitate to attack what he deemed inferior. “Is purely too imbecile to merit an extended critique,” he once wrote of a novel. Because of his readiness to attack what he believed to be unworthy,

Did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle plagiarize Edgar Allan Poe? This idea has been contested for over a century and has come to a consensus that Doyle did indeed base Sherlock Holmes off of Poe’s character known as C. Auguste Dupin. In Stephen Bertman’s, “Kindred Crimes: Poe’s “ The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and Doyle’s The Sign of Four”, he looks deeper into the debate by comparing Doyle’s The Sign of Four to Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, and analyzing whether Doyle plagiarized Poe’s plot. Bertman’s essay may be considerably short in length, but it does make a fair analysis on whether or not Doyle plagiarized Poe. His essay’s credibility as a

Since the 19h century, American Gothic fiction started to exist independently from the British type. In fact, the latter was marked by its use of fantastic, externalized and metaphysical elements as opposed to the boundaries of American Gothic fiction in which were expressed by historical, internalized, racial and psychological characteristics. (Edwards, XVII) In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Fall of the House of Usher and The Tell-tale heart and The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and in Charles Broken Brown’s Edgar Huntly expresses a transformation of certain gothic conventions to an American setting which are the result of 19th century

Poe's detective fiction or mystery fiction can best be felt in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is one of the best knows detectives in the history of literature. His fame can be spotted in the books that have been written and the movies that have been produced about Holmes. Poe's works were able to influence the author of the Sherlock Holmes series, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which he based the character of Sherlock Holmes off of one of Poe's characters whose name was Dupin who was used in the mystery story The Murders in the Rue Morgue. The similarities between the two characters are quite grand. “Both are solitary men who prefer to live quietly in either isolation or in the company of one close companion.”(“Nineteenth Century Influenced Poe”). Both men also tend to shift to the bottom of their mysteries without a large amount of clues that other detective writers appear to have in their stories. The impact that Poe has had on authors and stories cannot be matched. His stories have provided a model for future authors to use, in the hope of growing the notoriety of mystery fiction or the horror genre.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born into a family that possessed prominent Puritan ancestors, and the shame he experienced as a result of their actions, as well as his odd fascination with them, had a significant impact on his life and his writings. Though it would be an overstatement to say that Hawthorne's knowledge of the Puritan way of life was his only source of inspiration, this knowledge was certainly influential as it is often reflected in the majority of his work. Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804, Hawthorne was born in a town whose Puritan past is well-known as a result of the infamous Salem witch trials. Though he was born well after the time of the Puritans, growing up in a town so steeped in Puritan history is likely why

In addition, to his talents Doyle was a faithful patriot, as well as an imperialist, likewise, he was an advocate for judicial errors in which he corrected two unjust causes. As a matter of fact, Doyle was a man with a compulsive need for adventure, which brought forth inspiration for his stories. A discerning man, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose talents and achievements were immense. In fact, Doyle started his career as a medical practitioner and his accomplishments exceeded beyond just being a

Poe’s story, “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” influenced Doyle’s writing in “The Speckled Band.” In Poe’s story, C. Auguste Dupin is a private detective that seeks cases that interest him and often solves cases for free. Dupin and Holmes both have common character attributes. “He did not speak much German because he was surrounded by other English boys, but he discovered the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, such as “The Gold Bug” and “The Murder in the Rue Morgue,” which later exerted a great influence on his detective fiction”(Diniejko). Furthermore, Doyle felt that “The Speckled Band,” was one of his top favorite stories.

Creepy moors, killer hounds, this is what makes an awesome mystery. In the mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the elements, and specifically mystery elements, that were used were: main conflict, setting, characterization, and the author’s techniques of giving clues. This book is top-notch.

Edgar Allan Poe was an early American writer, poet, and critic whose life could be described as chaotic and troubled. Poe’s life was plagued by disappointments and surrounded with death and, by using these experiences in his writings, he captivated audiences. Nicknamed “Father of the Detective Story”, Poe’s writings are eerie yet easy to understand and have remained popular into the 21st century ("Edgar Allan Poe”). While he was considered part of the American Romantic Movement, the writings of Edgar Allan Poe still continue to frighten readers and inspire writers more than 160 years after his death.

supernatural. The majority of the book is dominated by people either believing that there is a giant hound that committed murders of a human did. Dr. Holmes is one of the strong believers in naturalism. He refuses to believe that there is a curse of Baskerville and that there is no giant hound responsible for the murders. He exams every set of clues that point to a logical real world solution. Although he still keeps the supernatural explanation tucked away behind his real life scenarios. Holmes keeps the supernatural explanation as a last case scenario. Holmes uses his intellectual' faith and logic, for examining facts to find the answers. He questions everyone who believes in the myth the same questions “What does it eat?” “Where does it hide?” and “Why do we never hear bark or bay?” Watson on the other hand believes that there is a curse and that a giant hound is out there. He uses evidence around to back up his belief in the hound. Throughout the story the common folk are the ones who goulole enough believe in the supernatural. While men like Mortimer and Sir Henry have their doubts about the legend. In the end the common man ends up looking like a fool for believing in the hound. The Hound of Baskervilles themes stress the importance of believing in the supernatural and not but also the social hierarchy in nineteenth century

While I sat down to read Charlotte Bronte’s 1853 novel Villette, I began to notice some elements within the context of the work that made me begin to rethink my hypothesis that the Victorians did not write anything about the supernatural. As a researcher of the paranormal, I was completely and utterly stunned as to my findings that Villette was indeed a novel filled with references to the realms of the unearthly. I began to imagine methods by which I can show some connections of supernatural elements between Charlotte Bronte’s Villette and Jay Anson’s The Amityville Horror. My obvious intent of finding the connections between these two works written during two different time periods seemed to become the focus of my research into something that I found the results of my investigation to be very intriguing.