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    Personalities and Roles In Conan Doyle’s novel The Hound of the Baskervilles characteristics and skills are but few elements that Doyle uses to portray the theme of the crime solving duo, Sherlock Holmes and Dr.John Watson. Throughout the story Watson repeatedly makes the dots without detailed reasoning and Holmes connects them. ““You know my methods. Apply them!”” (Conan Doyle 15). Holmes seems to be constantly teaching Watson his ways and in turn Watson does his best to fill the gaps for…

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    Even though The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Emerald were written by different authors there were a few similarities that stood out to me. These stories were nearly identical in structure with its detailed imagery, argent and over confident main character, and an ever curious companion; however, there was one small difference that I had noticed. From the beginning of both The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Emerald you notice that the Mister Henry Camberley (main character…

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    The Hound of the Baskervilles! One of Arthur Conan Doyle’s very best works.” We turned to each other with slight reassurance, yet still remained in a state of fright. Whoever had killed Professor Mirmotahari took great care in using his teaching aids to mock us. The quote…

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    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’…

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    I didn’t dare disturb the peacefulness in the room, I just grabbed my worn copy of “The Hound of Baskervilles”, my small reading lamp and settled into bed. *** My prediction that I wouldn’t sleep that night came true. I didn’t sleep a wink, but now I didn’t feel beat or tired, no, I felt ready to go. I was used to being sleep deprived, as I had suffered…

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    Doina Musat English 254, sec: 003 12 October 2017 The Hound of the Baskervilles: Element of Surprise Arthur Conan Doyle is widely recognized as one of the most thrilling adventure novelists during the Victorian era. Through his use of linear writing style and various literary techniques, Doyle is able to captivate the world with his famous Sherlock Holmes novels. In one of Doyle’s novels, The Hound of the Baskervilles, he is able to instill the sense of adventure for the reader to follow…

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    The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. • Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must solve the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville, a rich lord whose family is being killed by a giant dog known as the Hound of the Baskervilles. The hound supposedly killed an ancestor of the family Hugo and it seems to have scared Sir Charles to death. Holmes decides that Stapleton, a neighbour of the family who wants to inherit their property, murdered Sir Charles by creating a fake of the hound. He…

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    In The Hound of the Baskerville, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the moor, and Sherlock Holmes is investigating. Together they deduce that it is not a cursed hound terrorizing this family. Throughout the novel he theme to not be ruled by fear is developed. This is shown when Sir Charles let his fear of the hound not allow him to go out a night, Sir Henry did not let it control him when he went out on the moor with Dr. Watson and then when Sherlock holmes…

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    Hound of the Baskervilles book vs. movie Directly from 221B Baker Street in London, England comes Sherlock Homes, a world famous detective who, with his partner Dr. John Watson, tackles many mystery cases. One case the duo tackles is The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and became so popular, a film directed by David Attwood appeared in 2002 under the same name. . The two works of art tell the same exact story, but the movie differs vastly in the plot,…

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    the Hound of Baskervilles. However, I presume that the movie is much better than the book in this case because when acted out, the movie is easier to understand and is more realistic. (Quote found on page 195 of The Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.) First, I mentioned that the movie was easier than the book to understand. In a movie, there are actors who show the plot and meaning of a story through dialog, where in a book, most things are narrated. The dialog in The Hounds of…

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