The Hound Of The Baskervilles by Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr Watson. His stories about mysterious detection stories are still being read all over the world.
Arther Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He spent a year in Austria before taking a degree in medicine. He later drew on the method of diagnosis for the basis for Sherlock Holmes's own deductive methods and 'Elementary' approach to solving mysteries. His work was so popular because at that time detection was rising.
How do chapters 1 and 2 set in motion the rest of the novel?
At the start of a detective story, readers would expect to find out about some sort of
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Also Holmes points out the teeth marks on the stick, although he only knows what dog they're from because he seems the dog through the window, this helps show the reader that Watson believes Holmes knew the type of dog just from its teeth marks, when really it's just because he can see the dog outside the window. 'The dog's jaw, as shown in the space between these marks, is too broad in my opinion to be a terrier and not broad enough for a mastiff. It may have been -yes, by jove it is a curly-haired spaniel' (page 11).
The language used by the characters is some what different to the language used by people today. They don't tend to use 'slang' and generally talk a lot posher. "Really Watson, you excel yourself" (Holmes to Watson - page 8, line 13) People now wouldn't talk like that. Holmes also talks as if he is sort of top dog around, Watson does talk posh, however he doesn't have the same was of speech as Holmes.
Conan Doyle also spends time in building tension and suspense by concentrating on the language of horror. In chapter two, he introduces us to the legend of the Baskervilles and the death of Sir Hugo. Doyle begins to set his tone for the reader by describing Hugo as a 'Wild profane godless man'. This tells us that he is beyond the help of good and open to
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
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For my report, I chose to summarize how Brian Helgeland’s movie “A Knight’s Tale” (2001) draws its medieval themes and story from Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale”. Besides the nearly identical titles of these works and the moderately similar storyline, it can be further proven that “A Knight’s Tale” is an adaption of “The Knight’s Tale” because Geoffrey Chaucer appears as a character himself—and a vital one at that—in the movie. Furthermore, just to make certain that there is no mistake among the viewers about who they are dealing with, Geoffrey Chaucer (Paul Bettany) even refers to himself as a writer in the movie and points out his very first own work “The Book of the Duchess” in disbelief when some peasants don’t
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These dogs usually have square-shaped heads, short hair, are medium sized and have other similar features (Warnes, 2017).
Analyse the use of Dr Watson as the narrator of The Hound of the Baskervilles
must “have eyes in the back of [his] head,” since he saw what he was
of day is was also a beautiful and a romantic time of day for them
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Things are not what they seem, even the appearance can deceive the reality. It's no wonder the phrase “looks can be deceiving” is so popular. The outside appearance can often be opposing the reality or intention. This situation is investigated in depth in Sir Arthur’s celebrated mystery short-story The Hound of the Baskervilles, where Holmes must decipher the difference between the appearance of the characters and the setting and the actual reality of the situation. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery novella, The Hound of the Baskervilles, the author uses characterization and setting to assist the development of the theme that appearance can be contradictory to reality.
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” (Twain, ix) Mark Twain opens his book with a personal notice, abstract from the storyline, to discourage the reader from looking for depth in his words. This severe yet humorous personal caution is written as such almost to dissuade his readers from having any high expectations. The language in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is completely “American” beyond the need for perfect grammar. “Mark Twain’s novel, of course, is widely considered to be a definitively American literary text.” (Robert Jackson,
The Canterbury Tales is a story that incorporates a multitude of stories told by a multitude of characters. Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, he devises a novel in which each character has to narrate a total of four stories as part of a competition; on their way to visit Saint Thomas Becket, the characters would tell two stories going and two stories returning from the journey. The perspective changes through each story, and each story is introduced by a general, opening, third person prologue. Though many of the characters got to share some ideas, Chaucer unfortunately passed away before his story’s entirety. As a result, a winner was never officially clarified. Needless to say, it is evident that the clear winner would be the Miller’s Tale.
The Canterbury Tales, a masterpiece of English Literature, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a collection, with frequent dramatic links, of 24 tales told to pass the time during a spring pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. The General Prologue introduces the pilgrims, 29 "sondry folk" gathered at the Tabard Inn in Southwark (outside of London). Chaucer decides to join them, taking some time to describe each pilgrim.
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.