The Hound Of The Baskervilles

Entering the office and showing Holmes and Watson an 18th century manuscript, Dr. James Mortimer tells the myth of Hugo Baskerville. Hugo captured and imprisoned a young country girl at his estate in Devonshire. He then became the victim of a hound of hell as he chased her along the lonesome moors late one night. Ever since that day, James Mortimer reports, the Baskerville family has been haunted by a mysterious and supernatural black hound. The recent death of Sir Charles Baskerville has brought back suspicions and fears. The next of kin, Holmes and Watson find out, has arrived in London to take up his post at Baskerville Hall, but he has already been intimidated by an anonymous warning note and the theft of a shoe.

Suddenly, a low sound seems to ring through each of our ears, a moaning howl that I heard that I heard on the moor that afternoon with Stapleton. Sir Henry keeps questioning the sound and wondering what the locals say about that sound, but I try to change the subject, finally admitting that it is the howl of the Hound of the Baskervilles. As Sir Henry starts to sound very superstitious about the Hound, we spot Selden just as he seems to realize that he has been found. He took off and ran across the moor, and we chased after him we realized that he had too much of a head start. Standing on the moor, I gaze out into the distance on the moor and spot another tall figure of another man outlines against the moor. But then, a split second later, the man was gone. I am quite interested in who the tall figured man out on the moor was, and who might've been helping Selden. And why Stapleton acts so strange at times, but then covers it up and is all normal again. They are many suspects that I have thought up and a lot of mystery going on at this time Holmes, I wish you were here to investigate along with me. I will check in with you soon with much more information I

The main character in the story is Sherlock Holmes; he is the hero of the book, a very important factor in a mystery book. The Victorians would have loved this character because he was not a part of the police force; he was a character that could be relied on, when the police force was so corrupt. Holmes’s life was his job, as the reader gets further into the story; they see that Holmes works for personal satisfaction, ’my profession is its own

But some of these scenes are very intense, and it may scare the younger audience, and put nasty, disturbing pictures in people’s head. It may not be for the faint-hearted. The Hound of the Baskervilles movie contained graphic scenes that the book did not. The book can contain very descriptive detail that can be disturbing, in which in a few scenes, it did. It contained some really intense action as well, putting the audience on the edge of their seats.

(74) Watson meets the Stapletons of Merripit House.(92) Watson observes Barrymore, the Baskerville’s butler, hold a candle up to the window overlooking the moor, and learned that he was going to give Seldon, Mrs. Barrymore’s brother and the most dangerous criminal in Europe, food. (131- 134) While Watson was out on the moor he saw a mysterious silhouette of a man.(141-142 ) He later found out where the man was staying and decided to wait for him and meet him. When the man came to the prehistoric house it was none other than Sherlock Holmes. (179) Sherlock found out that that the Stapletons are actually husband and wife, and Stapleton was actually a teacher for a while that lead him to the conclusion that he was the murderer (185). The hound came chasing after Sherlock and Watson in the moor, but Sherlock shot it with his

I prefer the 1939 film adaption of The Hound of the Baskervilles better than the 2002 film adaptation because it is more appropriate, and sticks to the novel. The 1939 film adaptation was less violent and definitely less gory. I personally don’t think that violence and gore are necessary in order to get the point across. The 1939 film adaptation, featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes, was more suspenseful than the 2002 television movie. I feel like the definition “scary” of movies nowadays is because they have a lot of violence and gore. In the classical movie era, “scary” was suspenseful (Alfred Hitchcock, Bogie and Bacall). In the late sixties, the rating system developed. That signified the end of classical movies and the introduction to the “new and improved (not)” movie. Rotten Tomatoes, the biggest movie base rates almost all movies from 0-100. The 1939 film adaptation has an 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Other films with an 100% include, All About Eve, (Bette Davis, Celeste Holm) The Band Wagon, (Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse) and Silk Stockings (Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse). To give that some perspective, The Hunger Games has an 84%, The Hobbit has a 59%, Harry Potter has a 91%. Notice as a pattern, the older a movie gets, the higher the rating. The Princess Bride has a 97%. I guess my point is that the older movies are more appropriate. The 1939 adaptation is Not Rated. That means there is no need for it to be rated. There is no bad material. So you would be like, “The 2002 movie would be G. Right?” Not! It is a television movie so it has no Rotten Tomatoes rating, but it is rated 15 in England.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyal’s novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, is based on how a man full of greed is killed by a sort of beast none could imagine, and how his family for generations has to deal with this beast as it hunts them as well (Doyal 16). As the next heir to the fortune, Sir Charles Baskerville becomes the next victim of the hound; he dies on a walk near the moor. Sir Henry Baskerville, the next Baskerville to inherit Baskerville Hall, faces a dilemma: a note warning him to stay as far away from the estate as he can or history will repeat itself arrives in the post (Doyal 42). Since Hugo Baskerville’s greed and malice affects the young girl, karma, in the form of an enigmatic hound, comes and avenges the Baskervilles at Baskerville

Sometimes it is genuinely surprising how different novels and cinematic arts can be, don’t you think? One example of this comparison is found in the Hound of the Baskervilles novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The novel written by, Arthur C. Doyle, while the movie adaptation(2002 edition) directed by, David Attwood. In the movie adaptation Richard Roxburgh plays as Sherlock Holmes and Ian Hart plays as Dr. John Watson. These two different portrayals of the same story show how much a novel and a movie can vary.

The author uses background information to build suspense, and lead into the story. Dr. Mortimer was worried about telling this story to anyone. He was trusting that Mr. Holmes would be able to solve the case. Dr. Mortimer also was afraid that Mr. Holmes would not believe him, because he thought he was killed by a mysterious animal. He also uses Sir Charles health, to show that he was healthy, and was

Considering they both are first class citizens, Justice Wargrave is selfsame to Sir Charles Baskerville. In And Then There Were None, it always talks around how rich Justice Wargrave is since he gets a judge’s salary. In The Hound of the Baskerville, it states that Sir Charles Baskerville is a scion of “nouveaux riches” (Doyle 19). Not only that, nevertheless they both have a sort of psychotic sense. It states in The Hound of the Baskerville “you could tell that the anger had still been carried on” to a few of the character traits of the current Baskerville descendants (Doyle 60). In And Then There were none, it talks around Justice Wargrave’s madness in wanting to commit a murder; It shows how demented it made him to think that people could

Within the first sections of the novel, the main plotline is revealed. Following Sir Charles Baskerville 's death, Dr. Mortimer pays a visit to Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes and notifies them of his passing, which occur under troubling circumstances. Dr. Mortimer explains the family curse that plagues the Baskervilles, since the death of Hugo Baskerville. After explaining how hounds have troubled the family, Dr. Mortimer begins to elaborate upon the specifics of Sir Charles Baskerville’s death. Dr. Mortimer reveals that Sir Charles Baskerville had become obsessed with the fable surrounding his family and that he began to fully believe it. This leads him to develop a paranoia about hounds. However, on the night he died, Dr. Mortimer recounts that Sir Charles Baskerville was meandering around the moor and remained by the gate. The next morning, he was later found dead near this location, however, there were no signs of a struggle or confrontation. Due to the lack of wounds on Sir Charles, the investigators concluded that he had perished due to a heart attack. Dr. Mortimer is intelligent enough to accept this conclusion, as Dr. Mortimer

In The Hound of the Baskervilles, various factors of Arthur Conan Doyle’s early life, popularity, perspective, and status were all expressed in multiple ways. Spiritualism played an crucial role in his life, greatly impacting his work, specifically “The Hound.” Additionally, his birthplace and upbringing, along with the time period, inveigled his writing. Furthermore, Doyle characterized the people in the story in along with real life scenarios.

In the book a young woman comes to visit Holmes very distraught her sister had been murdered and she suspected her father had done it and was frightened the same thing would happen to her. Holmes and Watson go and investigate the room and find a vent leading to nowhere they then decide to spend a night in the room and soon find out that a snake had been sneaking into the room via the vent which had thought to have been leading to nowhere the snake wound up turning back around and biting it's owner which was the doctor.

It is important to the story that Watson is the narrator. This creates continuity throughout the series. In chapter seven, Watson is helping Holmes investigate the mystery in the moor. Holmes has to stay in London to work on other cases, so Watson is alone with Sir Henry. When reading a story, especially a mystery, it is nice to know a lot about the clues but not everything. If the reader knew everything, the mystery would be solved very quickly. By having Watson as a narrator, the audience is unaware of all that is going on, which keeps creating suspense. If Sir Henry was the narrator, we would not know enough information to solve the crime. He is not told all the details by Holmes and Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are written in first

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.