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

Doing his best to solve these mysteries, Watson discovers that Barrymore's tours at night are just his attempt to help the escaped prisoner Selden, who turns out to be Mrs. Barrymore's brother. The doctor interviews Laura Lyons in order to be able to judge her involvement, and discovers that the lonely stranger surveying the moors is none other than Sherlock Holmes himself. It takes Holmes, hidden, to make sure the villain does not get to know about his involvement, to solve the case.

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 Holmes used his observance to come to the conclusion that occurred at the end of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” transcribed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In April 1883, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson experienced an encounter with Helen Stoner; Helen requested that Sherlock and Watson look into the case of her sister’s death. Holmes and Watson were recommended by a mutual friend of Helen’s. Helen Stoner and Dr. Roylott lived in Stoke Moran. Dr. Roylott, Helen’s stepfather, was an aggressive man. After Helen Stoner’s mother had perished, Dr. Roylott was left with her will until each girl got married. When married each girl would get one third of the money. Helen’s sister, Julia, had

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.

In the beginning, Dr.Watson-a medical doctor- was awoken by Sherlock Holmes because a frantic guest, Helen Stoner, was waiting to speak with them. Helen Stoner was desperate to know how and why her sister had died. While feeling this way,

Roylott’s request he travels to Stoke Moran. Due to Sherlock’s decision, he starts to form a conflict with Dr. Roylott because Sherlock is going against dr. Roylott’s request. The detectives find unusual features in Stoke Moran. For instance, Julia’s bed was nailed to the floor; therefore, it was not able to move. Too add to that, there was a rope that hung over Julia’s bed that was supposed to have a bell al the end.

In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a captivating foul-play mystery in which he developed the main character, Sherlock Holmes, into a brilliant detective. The story occurs in early April, 1883 at Stoke Moran, England. A weary Helen Stoner visited Sherlock Holmes and his close companion, Dr. John Watson, in need of their assistance. Helen feared for her life as she was soon to be married; she especially questioned the mysterious death of her twin sister, Julia, who met her demise shortly before her own wedding. Helen thoroughly described the events leading up to her sister’s death—including Julia’s piercing screams of agonizing pain and rapid convulsions.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle composed a mysterious tale “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” in which the memory of two detectives attempting to solve a strange case of a woman’s peculiar death is described. One detective, Dr. Watson, recalled one of the most unusual cases he had encountered in his experience as a detective and medical doctor. He and his friend, Sherlock Holmes were urged to decipher the unknown truth of Julia-Helen’s twin sister’s- baffling death. However, attempting to assist Helen with her bothersome situation was a slight struggle; the Stoner sisters, unfortunately, had vicious, secretly abusive stepfather who was known by almost all as Dr. Grimesby Roylott. Early in the morning of April, 1883 rose Holmes and Dr. Watson from

In this part, he shows incredulity and thinks that such thing must be the work of something supernatural. Watson’s comparison of Holmes and the people living in the Dartmoor enhances again this contrast between the city detective who appeals more to science and the superstitious servants that give paranormal meanings to the howl of a dog. A contradiction with Watson’s ideas can also be seen in this extract. He first claims to have common sense and that is what makes him deny the existence of the hound, but then after reflecting on what he had heard, he justifies this saying that ‘facts are facts’ and this generates doubts and confusion in his mind. It is important to notice how Doyle develops a mysterious and frightening scene in our minds the moment we imagine how terrifying must be to hear such sound that even Watson, another man of science, starts to doubt about the existence of this enigmatic and evil

Even after Watson moves out of his old quarters in Baker Street in order to marry Mary Morstan, whom he meets in the second novel, The Sign of Four (1890), this epistemophilic desire for Holmes still haunts him: “As I passed the well-remembered door [ . . . ], I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind” (161-2). The thought that Holmes might be on a new case proves too appealing, and Watson cannot resist stopping in to hear the news. While Watson’s desire is primarily epistemophilic, Holmes’s is exhibitionistic, but neither experiences their desire for one another as, in any straightforward way, erotic. Nevertheless, Holmes’s sexuality, especially as

The typical image of a criminal to many people is someone who is big and tough. One who steals and gets caught. One who looks suspicious and owns a gun. All of those things are thought of at times when thinking of criminals. But someone that’s big and tough and owns a gun does not necessarily have to be a criminal. In The Adventure of a Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the criminal is a doctor. A doctor who had a very successful job until he committed his first crime. Anyone can be a criminal, and just like Sherlock Holmes states “doctors make the greatest criminals.”

The falling action prevailed as the ventilator opened, and a creature ensued to emerge from it. Sherlock saw the animal earlier Dr. Watson; therefore he attacked with a cane before his acquaintance understood the severity of what was happening around him. It was after Sherlock hit the snake that a whistle was heard, causing the snake to retreat. Only a moment later though a startlingly loud cry was sounded. With tremendous haste, the detective and the doctor burst into Dr. Roylott’s quarters. They scanned the dwellings for the doctor, only to realize that he had died. Sitting near him in the room was a speckled snake, or as it was known by the duo, the speckled band. The snake had become aggravated when Sherlock assaulted it, causing it to

Correctly assuming it was Dr. Roylott who was responsible for this, the plan included Helen being confident that Dr. Roylott was completely asleep before lighting a lantern in the window, collecting anything she would need in the night, and moving into her own room. This light could be seen from the hotel Sherlock and Watson were staying in. As soon as the lantern was glowing, they snuck into Julia’s bedroom to wait out the night. The charcters were, at this point, feeling petrified. What would happen? What was the truth behind the sister’s death? This event, the detective and his partner waiting in the dark of Julia’s bedroom, waiting for something to happen is no doubt the tensest part of the story, the climax. Suddenly, a light appears in Dr. Roylott’s room through the vent, but is extinguished as soon as it is there. At this, Sherlock Holmes, who had been quiet and motionless the whole night thus far, jumped up. He hit something through the vent with the cane he was holding. A scream was heard from the room over, Dr. Roylott’s