What Is The Hound Of The Baskervilles?

Well, in this city, a hound is completely different. It is a mechanical ‘hound’ that has eight spider-like legs and has a needle which ejects euthanasia into its victims. It uses this to kill them, or hold them down. When Montag breaks the law, the hound is set off on him, keeping his scent through chemical imprint. The hound is set on Montag, there is a chase for several hours and finally Montag makes it into the forest. Upon arriving, he meets some other people, and Montag find out that the hound was used to kill an innocent man, for the government did not want to worry the public (It does not seem as though they care about the public, quite

At first a reader may wonder why the hound even in the book? Only when the hounds symbolism is revealed is the question answered. In the story the Hound acts like the enforcer of the no book law that has been enforced for many generations. When more people started to be on the earth they made it so all the authors had to write the same books so people would read them. However because all the books were the same and boring people stopped reading altogether. The hound is the same way because the hound is society. The hound scares people into acting just like today's society teaches people to act and look a certain way. Montag is affected by this because while he is on his journey of enlightenment the hound just like society tries to change him. On page 133 the announcer on the TV Montag was watching said all these terrifying things about the hound. It's said “---nose so sensitive the Mechanical Hound can remember and identify ten thousand odor indexes in ten thousand men without resting!” Just like society the hound was scaring Montag however he stood up and got away from the temptation of giving

I think this is an important part of the book, because later on I think the Hound will play a larger role in the books. Perhaps, the Hound will hunt him down or even injure him, or

Since the hound has the inability to think for itself, and because it can, “remember and identify ten thousand odor indexes on ten thousand men” (Bradbury, 127), it is the perfect solution to tracking and abolishing nonconformists. This is seen in the novel, with the search for Montag. The government’s persistence on the ridding of individualists is clearly observed when Montag destroys the first hound, and a second is immediately sent, with news reporters stating to the citizens, “--Mechanical Hound never fails. Never since its first use in tracking quarry has this incredible invention made a mistake” (Bradbury, 126). It is obvious just how desperate the government is to obliterate rebels. The Mechanical Hound is a clear portrayal of a uniform, undeviating society with a fear of anything “abnormal” or unique. It can ultimately be described as the watchdog of their society, constantly on the lookout for novelty and innovation. Montag expresses his sympathy for the hound by stating, “…all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that’s all it can ever know” (Bradbury, 25). The government is so radically engrossed in maintaining the norm, that the creature is never permitted the opportunity to know anything other than destruction. The Mechanical Hound is “a fitting representative of unrelenting pursuit and execution for those

Towards the end of the book the reader is told that the people watch the Hound hunt for Montag with unfailing interest, and great excitement comes when the Hound finally kills

The hound has a snout that projects a four inch steel needle which can inject enough procaine or morphine to kill a rat, cat or chicken within 3 seconds. It also has eight legs and when it finds something it will growl and walk silently towards its prey. The hound is supposedly made to perfection for rapid deployment and incredible accuracy. Another issue with the hound is that it can get aggressive towards certain people, for example, at the beginning of the book, it starts to react viciously with Guy Montag. Bradbury writes "the mechanical hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse" (p.21-22), the quote is an example of personification, where the mechanical hound as a machine is described as having the same life as a human in this new society. The mechanical dog is also proof that technology has caused people to refuse to

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

Analyse the use of Dr Watson as the narrator of The Hound of the Baskervilles

Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, published in 1897, is one of the most famous works of

The hound comes up many times in the story and it tries to hunt down any who repulses their conflicting society and will stop at nothing to put down people that rebel. “ Quote back mechanical hound eerily being there”. The hound symbolizes rapidly advancing technology, this idea can be very dangerous changing a machine to kill without thinking about who or what. The government uses technology to oppress people by placing fear into people and implying destruction in any way possible. This society is dangerous and can destroy dissenters easily through

The Hound was used by the firemen to hunt down the people with books, the ones who were breaking the law. The hound injects its victim and paralyzes then. Then, they are burned or arrested. The hound is the punishment and result of not following the rules. This is one of the government's way of controlling the citizens. However, the government also uses the hound as their own protection. The government uses the hound as an instrument of war, to protect themselves against the ones who are different, the ones who are questioning

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.” Montag sees her as peculiar girl, but she gets him thinking about life and his happiness. Montag just lives the day to day never thinking for himself. As Clarisse continues to walk and talk with Montag he starts to question if he really is happy. Captain Beatty later on explains to Montag that Clarisse was a time bomb and that they try to pick them off early before they can stir up any trouble. He references the books and how they were shortened and then just relying on titles and finally forgetting about them. Modern society has become about the instant gratification and how can technology improve life. Society revolves around technology, so much so that a child can operate a piece of computer more efficiently than that of a man in his 60’s. Bradbury refers to the mechanical hound with human like qualities, “The mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibration, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the fire house. The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and copper and the steal of the faintly trembling beast. Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber padded paws” (24). The hound is designed and programed to be the avenger for society, to look over and protect the people of this society. It is the Fireman’s watchdog, although it looks nothing like a watch dog. The hound is the governments’ way to manipulate control over technology, a way to instill fear in society. Does modern society have cause for concern? The government still spy’s

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 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles is written by a British author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1859. Following “nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, where he received a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success” (Doyle 1). Doyle’s financial letdown in Southsea created a need for an alternative way for him to generate profit, so he became an author. In the first of his many stories A Study in Scarlet, Doyle brings Sherlock Holmes to life; he is a detective and the protagonist of the story. Doyle’s inspiration and idea for an observant detective came from Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary. Dr. Bell

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.