Supernatural And Symbolism In The Hound Of The Baskervilles

At first a reader may wonder why the hound even in the book? Only when the hounds symbolism is revealed is the question answered. In the story the Hound acts like the enforcer of the no book law that has been enforced for many generations. When more people started to be on the earth they made it so all the authors had to write the same books so people would read them. However because all the books were the same and boring people stopped reading altogether. The hound is the same way because the hound is society. The hound scares people into acting just like today's society teaches people to act and look a certain way. Montag is affected by this because while he is on his journey of enlightenment the hound just like society tries to change him. On page 133 the announcer on the TV Montag was watching said all these terrifying things about the hound. It's said “---nose so sensitive the Mechanical Hound can remember and identify ten thousand odor indexes in ten thousand men without resting!” Just like society the hound was scaring Montag however he stood up and got away from the temptation of giving

Thirdly, the Mechanical Hound is a meaningful symbol. The narrator describes the hound as follows, “the Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live…it was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that overrich nectar, and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself” (24). At the beginning of the novel, Montag greatly fears the hound and says, “it doesn’t like me”(26), but towards the end of the novel he overcomes his fear and kills it. The Mechanical Hound represents the fear of government that the state has instilled upon the people of their futuristic society. The hound has no emotions and its purpose in being is to make one afraid or to kill someone. The Mechanical Hound is Bradbury’s chief image of technology (Wolfe 70).

On page 113, Ray Bradbury uses the mechanical hound to personify the future of the people and their ignorance. This unsightly creature seems to be something only those who are blind to their surroundings, like those in Fahrenheit 451 and in the era of slavery, are able to imagine. While this beast shows the inner conflict of Montag with what he knows is right versus what he has been taught, one can also cross apply the analogy to that of the lives of slaves and free men in America. Looking toward the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, the analogy is furthered in meaning by Douglass's courage and ability to overlook the flaws of Christianity and to keep his faith, as seen on page 158 of the novel. Simply looking at the history of slavery, it is clear to see that many people refused to see the theoretical hound and instead chose to be blind to the terrors

The hound comes up many times in the story and it tries to hunt down any who repulses their conflicting society and will stop at nothing to put down people that rebel. “ Quote back mechanical hound eerily being there”. The hound symbolizes rapidly advancing technology, this idea can be very dangerous changing a machine to kill without thinking about who or what. The government uses technology to oppress people by placing fear into people and implying destruction in any way possible. This society is dangerous and can destroy dissenters easily through

The book states, "The Hound half rose in its kennel and looked at him with green-blue neon light flickering in its suddenly activated eye-bulbs"(Bradbury 25). This imagery describes an eight legged mechanical hound. Bradbury has a fierce tone, phrases such as "light flickering" and "activated eye-bulbs" shows something fierce. Normally, rescue dogs are supposed to rescue people from fires; however, the mechanical hound tracks down and kills/tranquilizes the people who break the law. Most importantly, people love rescue dogs and becomes friendly towards them. On the other hand, people in the society are in fear of the hound (even Montag) and never tries to get close to it. This imagery allows the readers to make a picture in their minds to help understand the situation more. Imagery will be have a certain words that are very descriptive that allows the readers to know the author's tone. Technology in this society has a lot of power. Bradbury is criticizing technology because they are ruining the society instead of help the society become a better place. In addition, the book states, "Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb-world where no sound from the great city could penetrate" (11). When the author particularizes this imagery with a negative tone. Words such as "darkness", "windows tightly shut" and "no sound" makes the author's tone negative. This quote describes the homes as an unhappy and miserable place. Therefore, the author compares the homes to the chamber a tomb-world. Every home is individual and separate that makes the neighbors have an unsocial life with each other. This imagery will help create a dark place that allows the readers to figure out that the tone is negative. Imagery will create an image in our head to know the situation and the author's voice. This quote epitomizes

In the short story," The Hound", By H.P. Lovecraft, the author seems to be using a vivid amount of personification. The dancing death fires. But the autumn moon shone weak and pale, we could not be sure. When they closed St. John's coffin, what did they see? The Hound by H.P. Lovecraft is trying to draw the reader into the story by luring us into the fact that the just robbed a dead guy or a corpse as some would call it. He tells us that the guy in the story committed suicide because he couldn't take any more of the noise and being "paranoid".

The Hound was used by the firemen to hunt down the people with books, the ones who were breaking the law. The hound injects its victim and paralyzes then. Then, they are burned or arrested. The hound is the punishment and result of not following the rules. This is one of the government's way of controlling the citizens. However, the government also uses the hound as their own protection. The government uses the hound as an instrument of war, to protect themselves against the ones who are different, the ones who are questioning

The novel had been considered by some people, mainly the higher ranked and important persons of the 19th centaury, as a criticism of ‘Victorian double morality’ meaning they felt it was presenting a false image of what went on in London. They may have also have felt that it was encouraging other people to do things considered wrong-like. This shows duality between the novel and the behaviour in London during the 19th centaury.

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).

At the beginning of the novel, Montag greatly fears the hound and says, "it doesn't like me"(26), but towards the end of the novel he overcomes his fear and kills it. The Mechanical Hound represents the fear of government that the state has instilled upon the people of their futuristic society. The hound has no emotions and its purpose in being is to make one afraid or to kill someone. The Mechanical Hound is Bradbury's chief image of technology (Wolfe 70).

This society has abused technology, such as the hound that’s a robot and tv that cover a whole room. After Beatty leaves they hear someone at the door “The front door called softly. Mrs.Montag, Mrs.Montag, someone here, Mrs.Montag, Mrs.Montag, someone here” (Bradbury 67). Montag's are confused because Beatty just left but Montag knew it was not beatty it was the hound. In this society to keep order they use robot dogs to find and kill people that have books in this case the hound is by Montag door and which means he has books. The government uses advance technology in a bad way. The reason why is because they send a robot hound to attack people with books and they house. Lastly, After the hound growl at Montag he ask the Beatty how does the

In the book Holmes and Watson say “... we heard scream after scream from Sir Henry and the deep roar of the hound.”(213). Stapleton had let his hound loose which scared Sir Henry and he ran and screamed in fear of the hound. While Watson and Holmes chased the hound they showed they weren’t ruled by fear and chased the hound then killed the hound the save Sir Henry. Holmes had fired lots of bullets at the hound before killing it to save Sir Henry. After that Sir Henry needed to get away from that place and he and Mrs. Stapleton had went to Canada to get away from that horror. Sir Henry was definitely scared for life from the hound and definitely would tell the tale because he was the one who could live to tell the

The novel The Hound of the Baskervilles is written by a British author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1859. Following “nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, where he received a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success” (Doyle 1). Doyle’s financial letdown in Southsea created a need for an alternative way for him to generate profit, so he became an author. In the first of his many stories A Study in Scarlet, Doyle brings Sherlock Holmes to life; he is a detective and the protagonist of the story. Doyle’s inspiration and idea for an observant detective came from Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary. Dr. Bell

The novel is set during the Victorian era and explores the social norms, beliefs and values of popular Victorian society. The setting alternates between the east European Transylvania which represents the world as it was before the scientific and Industrial Revolution, and Victorian London where the effects of science and technological progress are evident in the social and intellectual zeitgeist of the period.

The book The Hound Of The Baskerville was written in 1901. The novel was published in serial form from 1901 to 1902. It has proved to be a great success even today and is considered by some Sherlock Holmes scholars to be Doyle’s best work. It has inspired more than twenty film and television reinterpretations, made in diverse places such as Germany, Australia, Canada, the United States, and also the United Kingdom. The most recent such reinvention of this story can be seen in the BBC series Sherlock, although this is in fact very much different from the original novel.