Rationalism And Superstition: A Critical Study Of The Hound Of The Baskerville By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Introduction
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.
Doyle was inspired to write the novel when he was staying with his friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson in 1901. He named the character Sir Henry Baskerville after the gardener of Robinson named Harry Baskerville. Doyle had met Robinson on a return voyage from South Africa and Robinson told him about a legend from his home region of Devon, England. Later, Robinson showed Doyle the moor known as Dartmoor, upon which the story is based. It is the largest open space in the southern region of England. Doyle also wrote a letter to her mother commenting that the moor was “a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, huts and graves”. And this is where Doyle got his inspiration from. The atmosphere of a place which is not inhabited by any man is pervasive in the story
Analyse the use of Dr Watson as the narrator of The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The supernatural hound and the moor from the Baskerville legend reveal the reason for Sir Charles’ fear. When Dr. Mortimer, Sir Charles’ doctor, came to meet with Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson about Sir Charles’ recent death, he told them about the Baskerville legend and that “the idea of some ghastly presence constantly haunted him,” (24). The “ghastly presence” mentioned here is none other than the hound, and Sir Charles was constantly in fear of it. All Sir Charles thought about was the supernatural, beastly creature. After analyzing all of the facts about Sir Charles’ death, Holmes stated that his fears
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How far would you go to protect your family. I believe that Mr.Stapleton was the murder. In The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Charles died out of nowhere from someone to have been fine one day to dying from heart exhaustion it did seem a bit odd. Some believe this could be a murder case or even an old family legend that a haunted hound was the culprit to this mysterious death. I believe Mr.Stapleton was the murder.
Have you ever believed in an outrageous superstition? Sometimes we believe in crazy myths that we know aren’t true or at least question in the back of our head. We still believe in them because nobody has proved them wrong. Or do we choose to believe in them because we are scared to find out the truth. We even try to link a past even in our life with a superstition to prove to ourselves the superstition isn’t a superstition but a fact. Most of the time we only believe in the superstition because of what has happened to a family member or friend and this is exactly what happens to the Baskerville family in the Hound of the Baskerville. Sometimes it is better to actually find out if the myth is fact or fiction.
The Hound of the Baskerville The legendary author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Hound of the Baskerville. The story is all about solving the mysterious mystery of the death of Sir Charles. Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson are trying to find out that the murderer is and how would they solve it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses Stapleton as a foil to Holmes to highlight between good vs. evil, compare each character's personality, and how their actions lead to solving the mystery. As far as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the story, Stapleton was the greedy person in which he was the murderer.
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In the book The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are helping Sir Henry Baskerville. There will be lots of fears and they will solve the mystery of the ghastly hound that has terrorized the Baskervilles for years. Throughout Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, the book develops the theme “don’t be ruled by fear,” by showing that the people fear the Hound of the Baskervilles and the dangers on the moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the movie The Hound of the Baskervilles directed by Jeremy Bret are two works of art that are mainly telling the same story. There are, however, many differences about the book and the movie. Those differences don’t affect the outcome of the story, but they give less impact to the story. Along with the differences there are many similarities, and those similarities give you confidence that it is the same story.
In his third of four novels The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, to demonstrate the theme of practical control opposed to supernatural power; he does this symbolically through British culture by discovering, investigating, and resolving mysteries.
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.
The aim of research in the entitled is Conflict analysis in sherlock holmes novel “the hound of the baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The goal of study is to know what are the conflict in this novel. To analyze the conflict in this novel, will use the structural approach. The structural approach is an approach the assuming literary work as made of several elements such as character, characterization, setting, plot, point of view and theme. The author use qualitative research method to analyze the conflict, and the population that use in this research is all the story in the novel “the hound of the baskervilles, the author will collect the data by reading that novel and then will explain what are the conflict in that novel by
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