The Moor Monologue

William Shakespeare, one of the most prolific playwrights of all time, has a select number of elite plays. One such play, Macbeth, tells the story of a brutal, 11th Century, Scottish power struggle. Towards the beginning of the theatrical, a legendary battle occurs, and subsequently, a military captain tells the king, Duncan, how the campaign transpired. The Captain's’ monologue, recounting to Duncan the timeline of the bloodshed is vital to the play as a whole, due to it setting a bloody precedent for the rest of the theatrical to follow.

The mission directors chose a ship full of queers, so we didn't spend every last minute agonizing about the family we left back on the Blue Marble. They wanted a crew of men who loved each other and desired each other's company, so that we could be happy where we were. And for the most part it worked.

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

It was not because of the nervousness fueled by the unknown; it was something familiar and known that troubled her.

Mr. Barrymore, Sir Henry’s butler, is a red herring. I have been planning the murder of Sir Henry Baskerville ever since I was informed that he was the new heir of the Baskerville estate. After the many years that my family has served the Baskervilles it was only natural

Knowing this situation was dire, he declared Stoke Moran would be visited by him and Dr. Watson later that day, as his companion was unswervingly loyal. Wise Helen Stoner accepted this plan, proceeding to leave for home. Once she was gone, however, Dr. Roylott arrived. The man’s assertive and violent nature became prominent while he accused Holmes of meddling with his personal life. On the other hand, Holmes made it evident he was persistent and clever when he made snide remarks for each of Dr. Roylott’s threats.

and Mrs. Barrymore, and most importantly Stapleton. Laura Lyons is a girl who was in love with Sir Charles Baskerville and sent a letter to him on the day of his death, but conveniently she “never went” (Doyle 143) to the place of his death. When Watson asked her why, she replied “That is a private matter. I cannot tell it”(Doyle 143). Doyle continues to confuse the reader and introduces another suspect Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore. They became the second suspect when Watson caught them lurking around Baskerville Hall and shining a candle into the window. Watson asked him what he was doing and he lied to him, saying he was checking if the windows “fastened”(Doyle 114). Watson knew he was lying and he asked him to tell the truth and he replied with “it is not my secret, and I cannot tell it” (Doyle 115). Now there are a few people who have been considered suspects, but the most obvious one is Mr. Stapleton. Mr. Stapleton is a sly devil, in the very beginning appears quite odd, when he chases a butterfly towards the Grimpen Mire. Since he told Watson not to go there, then a lady rushes towards him, warning him to “go back! She said go straight back to London” (Doyle 86). Turns out that this lady was Mrs. Stapleton and she thought Watson was Sir Henry, inferring that Stapleton is up to something. Lastly, the final suspect is the hound, but is it real or a supernatural

I am not guilty of anything! All wrong I have done has been in self-defence. I was the victim here! I was set up by my brother Edmund and had to run and hide. I had to take “the basest and most poorest shape” (2.3.7), and posed as a mad, homeless beggar with the name ‘Poor Tom’. I had to go without. I had no home, food, or comfort and nobody knew my name. I was anxiously trying to stay alive and prayed to nature and the Gods because the “gods are just and of our pleasant vices” (5.3.206). I was lucky enough to meet the king, his fool and his servant Caius. However, they believed me to be mad and had no idea who I was. The king listened to me while I desperately tried to convince him of my made-up form of madness. Lear almost

In the first half of the monologue, the line “And live a coward in thine own esteem” is key (Macbeth Act I Sc 7 li. 48). In these words Lady Macbeth toes the line of acceptability. She is a woman in 1040 Scotland calling her respected warrior husband a coward. This is, in fact, the most important word in this line; it is openly insulting and emasculating to Macbeth. This humiliation along with similar instances throughout the scene, ultimately provides the pressure for Macbeth to murder King Duncan. This particular line stands out due to its use of the word ‘coward’, a stark and highly offensive insult, particularly coming as it does from a woman to her husband at this time. It provides key motivation for Macbeth’s murder of the king.

Wastion reveals when we states ‘ “ There was the footprints of the hound besides him… Come on!.. We stumbled slowy along in the darkness… There is nothing…{just} a pitch dark night… But at least we could see when it came”’(136). This reveals when Stapleton and Watson went to the moor they were scared but then they went along the moor even though it was at night and pitch dark. In reference to what Watson was staying him and Stapleton were ruled by fear the sernio they were in when they walked across the moor. For the reason of what happened to Sir Charles and how the hound frightens him to death. As well and coming in contact with the hound did not scare the two enough. They both had to worry about walking across the moor and coming out in one

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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

As a reader would know, Stapleton chooses to commit crimes and attempt at murder throughout Watson and Sir Henry’s time in the moorland. Because Stapleton must be quite old to have been depicted in the portrait on the wall, he could have very well influenced the

The townspeople rushed to the market in Stratford-upon Avon. It was the time of year where the birds sang, and the kids gathered to play on the delicate green grass of the field beside the market full of a busy crowd of people. Drops of dew were splattered on the benches and parents had to call their children to settle down for a picnic lunch on the field.

Throughout the story characters who are of higher status have prejudice towards the moor and those who inhabit it. This is very evident with Watson, who describes the moor as a place where “you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.” (ch. 8) The description of the moor presents itself as a regression to a primitive state according to Watson, which aids in linking the moor and its inhabitants to the idea of devolution. However, Watson is an unreliable narrator. At the very first chapter the reader is shown that Watson jumps to conclusions as Holmes himself states "I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous” (ch. 1) when Watson attempts to discern who owned the misplaced cane. The reader sees again and again how