The Hound Of The Baskervilles "How Does the Author use Pathetic Fallacy in his Descriptions of the Settings and the Effects of this Open the Reader".

English Higher Coursework-The Hound Of The Baskervilles "How Does the Author use Pathetic Fallacy in his Descriptions of the Settings and the Effects of this Open the Reader" Helen Allman The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is an excellent book, and is held up as one of the best mysteries in the literary world. Holmes, the well-known detective, is asked to investigate the death of Charles Baskerville, which many believe to be the work of the ferocious hound, a curse brought about by the misdeeds of Charles' ancestor, Hugo Baskerville. When Sir Henry inherits the estate, Holmes must solve the mystery before another Baskerville meets his end. This essay will analyse how Doyle uses pathetic fallacy in his descriptions of the settings and the effects of this upon the reader. This book is absolutely bursting with personifications, alliterations, metaphors and similes which all add to the drama and excitement which flows throughout. Doyle has a great use of language to help keep the reader interested and wanting to know more and more as the story gets more thrilling and intriguing as it progresses towards the end. Doyle deliberately leaves each chapter on an increasingly dramatic cliff hanger, which has an over powering knack of getting the reader to turn that page and read on. For example; ""Footprints?" "Footprints. " "A man's or a woman's?" Dr.

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"The Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb" and "The Destructors" are both crime stories - I am going to discuss the authors' contrasting approaches to story telling and to the subject of crime.

English Coursework - Compare 2 stories "The Adventure Of The Engineer's Thumb" and "The Destructors" are both crime stories. I am going to discuss the authors' contrasting approaches to story telling and to the subject of crime. "The Adventure Of The Engineers Thumb" has a first person narrator: Dr Watson. This is a good choice of narrator because the reader is given the impression that as Watson is a doctor he can be trusted, this amplifies mystery and suspense; being Sherlock Holmes' assistant and dear friend, Watson is the stand in character for the reader. In the first paragraph of the story, Dr Watson explains that he will tell the story in such a way that "the facts slowly evolve before your own eyes and the mystery clears gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads on to the complete truth." He tells the story as an account of what happened, and not from his own point of view. This keeps the reader in suspense, right up until the mystery is solved at the end of the story. However, "The Destructors" has a third person narrator. This is a good choice of narrator for this story because there are always a lot of things going on. For example, when they are tearing down the house from the inside, each person is doing a separate job, and by having a third person narrator, you get to see what everyone is doing; the main characters of the story are

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How does Conan Doyle Engage the Readers Interest and imagination in "The Speckled Band"

How does Conan Doyle Engage the Readers Interest and imagination in "The Speckled Band" The Speckled Band is a story written by Conan Doyle, and is based on the famous detective; Sherlock Holmes. It is a very exciting story, and is filled with many twists and turns. Conan Doyle uses many techniques to make this an interesting and exciting story throughout. I decided to write about it because I thought that it was very cleverly written and because the characters were very intriguing and entertaining. The story is about a woman who goes to Holmes for help, and she asks him to solve the mystery of her sister's death. Holmes accepts and starts to work straight away. He finds out that it was Dr. Roylott who committed the murder, so that she would not get married and inherit some of his fortune that her mother had promised each girl when they get married. The characters are entertaining, and make you want to read on. This was shown when Sherlock Holmes met Dr. Roylott for the first time, and when threatened and bullied by him, instead of cowering down, Holmes grabbed the bar that Roylott was holding and bent it showing that he also had power, and was not afraid. This was unexpected because Holmes isn't made out to be physically powerful before that point and it comes unexpectedly. Holmes is also a very clever man. We notice this many times during the story, but it is probably

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Compare and contrast the ways in which tension and suspense are created in,

Compare and contrast the ways in which tension and suspense are created in, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Stolen Bacillus," and "Napoleon and the Spectre." All the above mentioned narratives contain suspense and tension throughout and they all belong to the "short story" genre. This is significant as in short stories the form doesn't allow the opportunity to write long descriptions or to create a strong relationship between the reader and the characters, so instead he or she needs to pack the tale with almost immediate tension to grip the reader from the outset. I also think the time in which all the stories were written is significant, as each of the different stories includes a contemporary fear that would definately have provoked tension and suspense from a reader in a Victorian society. In Victorian England the country and society was beginning to be transformed due to the Industrial Revolution. There was still an obvious hierarchical class and patriarchal structure. Women, for example, were still treated as inferior. In "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Stolen Bacillus" this is evident as the women in those stories are presented as either the damsels in distress (the Stoner twins,) or the silly interfering wife (Minie the Bacteriologist's wife.) In Victorian times short stories also became popular and were published regularly in magazines and

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A Comparison of how Fear and Tension are created and Used in Talking in Whispers and “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

A Comparison of how Fear and Tension are created and Used in Talking in Whispers and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" Both authors use fear and tension in their stories. "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" was written in the nineteenth century and is set in Victorian England, whereas Talking in Whispers is set in Chile, and was written towards the end of the twentieth century, but both contain similar elements of fear and tension. The authors use different techniques in order to create tension and fear, and I will examine some of these in the course of my essay. I will begin by looking at Watson's novel. Fear and tension are created in three main ways in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"; namely character, setting and plot. First, I will look at character. The character that creates the most fear and tension in the story is Dr. Grimesby Roylett. He is a very angry, loud and impatient man. He is powerful and intelligent. He once "beat his native butler to death". He is the "terror of the village" near his manor. He has no friends at all and says of himself, "I am a dangerous man to fall foul of". He is described as "a fierce old bird of prey", and he keeps wild animals. Doyle creates lots of fear and tension through the character of Roylett. He is described by his stepdaughter as a short tempered man with fits of rage approaching to mania, and then when

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Arthur Conan-Doyle is the acclaimed author of the infamous Sherlock Holmes short stories.

Arthur Conan-Doyle is the acclaimed author of the infamous Sherlock Holmes short stories. His stories, although often different in setting and subject follow certain characteristics that link them all together. The characteristics enable us to distinguish Conan-Doyle's stories from stories of a similar genre, and allow the reader to stay interested in the whole series of stories as certain main features of the stories such as the relationship between Holmes and Watson can remain fairly consistent and yet there may be slight changes to keep the reader on their toes. The first characteristic of a Sherlock Holmes short story is the introduction made by Watson, although it is not always Watson telling the story it is always the good Dr who introduces the reader to the next exciting adventure. In most occasions Dr Watson does continue to narrate the whole story as most of he stories are recited to us from Watson's notes. However, on certain occasions like in the case of the Musgrave Rituals it is Holmes telling the story of a past case to Watson. From the Musgrave Ritual we begin to realize how much Holmes is admired by Watson. This is another important characteristic used by Conan-Doyle as it begins to outline the two detectives great if unconventional friendship. In the Musgrave Ritual we learn that Holmes' expeditions started before his 'biography had come to glorify' him.

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hound of baskervilles

Discuss the use of cultural context and suspense in chapters 1 and 2 of "Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle The story is set in 1886, during the reign of Queen Victoria. Crime was rife and prostitution, drug abuse and murder were commonplace. Public hangings were just part of everyday life. There was much poverty and ill health; poor people lived in cramped, dirty and squalid conditions. Smog caused by the factories weighed heavily on the city, creating a dark, dreary place. Jack the Ripper, an infamous murderer, was loose on the streets of London, attacking women. The Victorian people feared crime greatly. The Police could not catch Jack the Ripper and were seen as their methods were seen as inefficient. Many Victorians had a deep resentment against the Police in London, as they did not appear to protect the public. This resentment reached it's peak when many officers were exposed as corrupt. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is part of a collection of short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story follows the investigations of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate the story of an age-old curse and mysterious deaths within the Baskerville family. The setting for the story came from Doyle's visit to the English moors. While there, he visited prehistoric ruins and heard tales about escaped prisoners and a local legend about a dog. From

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Re-read the following Sherlock Holmes stories - In terms of narrative of the characters, the use of language, Structure and the authors view point and then compared them.

GA6 Lewis Woodall 11LR Newfield school Pre 1914 prose We read the following Sherlock Holmes stories; "The adventure of the veiled lodger", "The speckled band", "The red headed league", "The crooked man" and "The silver blaze". In detail I studied "The adventure of the veiled lodger", "The speckled band" and "The silver blaze". In terms of narrative of the characters, the use of language, Structure and the authors view point and then compared them. In "The veiled lodger" Holmes is passed on a message by a landlord, from a tenant. It said do you wish to find out what really happened to Mr. Render. When Holmes and Watson got to the house they find out that the tenant was Mrs. Render. They also found out that Mr. Render did not die the way they originally thought, which was being attacked by a lion, but it was a murder carried out by Mrs. Render and her lover called Leonardo. They did this because of the way that Mr. Render treated Mrs. Render, he would abuse her when she commented on how he had other women. They made the murder look like it was a lion from the circus attacking him, by using a club with nails attached, to look like claws but the plan went wrong. They managed to attack Mr. Render but when Mrs. Render opened the loins cage to let the lion loose from the cage the smell of blood had sent it wild and it turned on Mrs. Render. "The Speckled Band" is

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Compare / Contrast 3 villains and 3 victims from The Speckled Band, Twisted Lip and The Cardboard Box.

Sherlock Holmes Coursework Aim Compare / Contrast 3 villains and 3 victims from The Speckled Band, Twisted Lip and The Cardboard Box. The three villains which I am going to compare / contrast are Dr Roylott from The Speckled Band, Mr Neville St Claire from The Man With The Twisted Lip and Sarah Cushing from The Cardboard Box. The three victims I am going to compare / contrast are Helen Stoner from The Speckled Band, Mrs St Claire from The Man With The Twisted Lip and Susan Cushing from The Cardboard box. Dr Roylott is a stereotype villain. He is feared by his neighbours and is very violent and threatening. He is described as being "a man of immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable anger". I can say this because "he beat his native butler to death." He even abuses Helen physically "and covered over her injured wrist." This is when Holmes observes her. Helen finally falls in love with Percy Armitage who asks for her hand in marriage but Dr Roylott "offers no position to the match." This shows his selfish personality, he only cares for himself and not his stepdaughter's happiness. He hangs about with criminal gypsies but he is in fact worse than the gypsies. "He has a baboon and cheetah which wonder freely over his grounds" This shows his weird, strange hard character. He is also quite a bully because Helen says, "for a long time we did all the work of the

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How does Conan Doyle make the reader believe in Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson?

"When we talk of Sherlock Holmes we invariably fall into the fancy of his existence." T.S. Eliot. How does Conan Doyle make the reader believe in Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson? The stereotypical image in most people's minds whenever the name "Sherlock Holmes" is mentioned is the magnifying glass, deerstalker hat and smoking a pipe. He has more or less become a part of our English culture, almost as much as English tea, Yorkshire puddings and cricket. Few of the number of people who can picture that stereotypical image of Sherlock Holmes have actually read the books. There have been other sources which have informed society of Holmes' features; there have been, numerous television productions, approximately two hundred and fifty Sherlock Holmes films, many newspaper interviews with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the author of the amazing book and documentaries on the story. Nevertheless, in the original publications in "The Strand" magazine the detective's stereotypical image was never described in the way it has evolved. These ideas have all been created and drawn from the media. This was an effort to make the famous detective easily recognizable to a wide range of audiences. As the tale was originally serialised in "The Strand" all Sherlock Holmes stories have been slightly affected, this is due to the fact that there had to be a cliff-hanger at the end of each week's

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