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cpigs5
cpigs5
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High School - 9th Grade

In your judgement who is most responsible for Dr Roylott's death in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Arthur Conan Doyle?

 

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Posted by cpigs5 on Tuesday October 13, 2009 at 4:17 PM and tagged with characterization, characters, doyle, roylotts death, the adventure of the speckled band.

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  1. kiwi
    kiwi Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    Dr Roylott himself is largely to blame for his own demise. He has the fatal flaw of greed for the money bestowed on his stepdaughters and uses violent means to bring about the death of one of them, Julia. It is only through the intervention of the brilliant Sherlock Holmes who uncovers Roylott’s evil snakebite scheme that the second stepdaughter, Helen, is not killed also. There is a neatness in Roylott’s death being due to the very snakebite he intended for his stepdaughter: poetic justice indeed.

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    Posted by kiwi on Thursday October 29, 2009 at 10:32 PM