Hound Of The Baskervilles And The Maltese Falcon: An Analysis

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We first discussed our research question, To what extent do Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett use their characters to explore the immorality in their texts The ‘Hound of the Baskerville’ and The ‘Maltese Falcon’?, which she disagrees with due to its broadness of the topic. She recommends discussing justice between the two texts instead of immorality, which I found is difficult to focus, especially with the amount of research I’ve completed so far. We later found that the research question, To what extent are the moralities of the central characters in ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ and ‘The Maltese Falcon’ comparable?, is more specific in a way that I will be researching on the main protagonist and antagonist of each of the texts. Furthermore,

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