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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Watson assumes that Dr. Mortimer is a country doctor on account of his walking stick. As he perceptively observes, Dr. Mortimer's waking stick has seen better days. Though originally a very...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The convict in question in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles is Selden, a brutal criminal known as the "Notting Hill Murderer." Selden recently escaped from the Princetown...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
To most people, the walking stick left at Holmes's apartment is precisely that: a walking stick and nothing more. But to the world's greatest detective, it's so much more than that. Once Holmes...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Baskervilles' faithful retainer Barrymore and his good lady wife are soon to leave service to start their own business using the money bequeathed to them by Sir Charles. But before they do,...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, many of the clues Holmes and Watson discover are red herrings, which lead down a false trail, while others are true clues to solving the mystery. Here are some of...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Henry reacts to the warning letter in a seemingly nonchalant manner, but the fact that he seeks the help of the reknowned detective Sherlock Holmes in dealing with it indicates he is concerned....
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Setting= the time AND place in which a story takes place. The place in The Hound of the Baskervilles is the English countryside (the moors) and the time is the 19th century (1800's)
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The hound's jaws were coated with phosphorus to make it look ghostly, demonic, and supernatural. As Watson describes it, it is: not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The bleak and desolate moor provides an excellent setting for this weird tale. The description of the landscape establishes a mood that haunts the entire story. It is an ideal place for the...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The main character in the book, of course, is the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is a brilliant thinker and delights in the excitement of "the chase". In addition, he is rather an...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Charles Baskerville believed the legend of the Hound of Baskerville, and it lead to his death. When he saw a hound coming his way, he thought the legend was true and died of fright. Holmes...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
At the beginning of The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Mortimer, a friend of the late Sir Charles Baskerville. He introduces Holmes to the strange...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
There are two main reasons people should read The Hound of the Baskervilles. First of all, it is one of Doyle’s most literary works. The book is a detective story, but it ascends to a much...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Charles's body was found out near the moor. The police report stated that he was out walking towards the moor but everyone knew that he never went walking at night. He was deathly afraid of the...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
A next of kin is a person's nearest "living blood relative" (Investopedia, "Next of Kin"). Inheritances are often left to the next of kin, and when a deceased person has not written a will, the...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In chapter 4, Dr. Watson brings a threatening not to Holmes. The note warns Basekerville of danger. Holmes is able to deduce several items from the note. THE NOTE CAME FROM A NEWSPAPER- Holmes is...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle provides the reader with many rich descriptions of Baskerville Hall. In Chapter Six, readers get their first look at the exterior of the residence, and it's a bleak one. After...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
There was no supernatural element to Sir Charles’s death, but it was staged to look like there was a giant hound that killed him. Sir Charles Baskerville’s death was described as “sudden and...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
A character sketch should include as many pertinent details about personality and background as possible. The story opens with the death of Sir Charles Baskerville in 1891. Sir Charles was a...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dr Mortimer says this as Sir Charles apparently foresaw the manner of his death by means of a supposedly spectral hound. The means of his death appears therefore to have been highly unusual, but...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Some of the internal conflicts include Sir Henry's decsion to return to his home, Baskerville Hall; Stapleton's motivations; Dr. Watson's anxiety on accompanying Sir Henry to Baskerville Hall; and...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Without Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes would be without friend and historian. More importantly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective would be much less of a human in his many adventures, were it...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dr. Mortimer, who has come to seek the help of Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson, fears that taking Sir Henry Baskerville to the family estate is a bad idea. Dr. Mortimer's friend, Sir Charles Baskerville,...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In Chapter Four, Sir Henry Baskerville tells Sherlock Holmes of his surprise when he received a letter upon his arrival at the Northumberland Hotel. According to Sir Henry, no one but Dr. Mortimer...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
First of all, there technically was no "murder" to be solved in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles. Sir Charles died under mysterious circumstances that indicated his ancestral...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dr. Watson's character in The Hound of the Baskervilles is no different from his character in all the other Sherlock Holmes stories. He is a conservative, unimaginative Britisher who is devoted to...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Having "eyes in the back of your head" is an old idiom often used by students whose teacher seemed able to perceive everything that they did, even if she/he were not facing the students. It was...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
These three chapters see rapid developments in events upon the moor. Watson, holed up at Baskerville Hall, continues to write reports to Holmes, who as far as he knows is busy working on the case...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In Collins's Moonstone and Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, characters are often confused about each others' and their own guilt. Innocent people often seem guilty, while guilty people often...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Barrymore says his wife did not cry, but Watson can see her eyes. In his first case without Sherlock Holmes, Watson is in over his head a bit. His task is to look for clues and report back. He...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In many of his Sherlock Holmes stories it was the practice of the author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to illustrate his hero's powers of deduction early on, and then to illustrate them again at the...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In Chapter 7 he is referred to as "Jack" by his sister Beryl. His real name was Rodger Baskerville, before he changed his name to Vandelour and then Stapleton. His "sister", of course, was...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Henry refuses to be scared away from his new home. Sir Henry is the last descendant of Baskerville Hall (supposedly). He inherits the estate when his uncle Sir Charles dies of very mysterious...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Mystery literature involves a puzzling crime of some sort. This crime is often a murder or theft. What elevates such crimes to the realm of mystery is that they are seemingly impossible, or at...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes is engaged by Dr. Mortenson to solve one murder, that of Sir Charles Baskerville, and prevent another, that of his young...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In the Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes, still involved in a case in London, deems it unsafe for Henry Baskerville to go to claim his ancestral mansion alone. This is why Holmes sends...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle wrote The Hound of the Baskervilles in the first person voice of Dr. Watson in order to highlight Sherlock Holmes's keen intelligence and genius for analysis. Dr. Watson is an everyman who...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Once, Holmes tells Watson that he dislikes the way Watson narrates the stories. He feels that they are too romantic. "Crime is common, logic is rare," says Holmes in "The Adventure of the Copper...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In chapter two of The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. Mortimer presents a news article for Mr. Holmes to read. The article is from the Devon County Chronicle, and Mortimer...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes reasons for not accompanying Watson are false. Holmes does not accompany Dr. Watson and Baskerville to the hall because he plans to come disguised to the area. He wants to investigate...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Watson is trying to find out whether a telegram that Holmes previously sent to Barrymore from London was delivered to him personally. It is important to find this out as it will establish whether...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
"Chapter 15: A Retrospection" is the final chapter of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In this chapter, Holmes and Watson are back in London, approximately a month after the...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The conflict is a character vs. character conflict between Holmes and the murderer. A character vs. character conflict is a conflict between two characters. Even before Holmes knows who the...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Baskerville Hall is the ancestral home of the Baskerville family. The place is an impressive manor located in Devonshire, England. although a ficticious location, the reader can safely assume that...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In the story The Hound of the Baskervilles, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are looking into the mysterious death of one Sir Charles Baskerville. The people...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The moor in The Hound of the Baskervilles serves not only as the setting for the story, but as an antagonist as well. The wide open spaces of the moor, combined with the history surrounding...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
In the story 'The Hound Of The Baskervilles ' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the detective Sherlock Holmes asks the client Sir Baskerville a young baronet, to tell him in great detail all about his...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
At first, Holmes is surprised that Dr. Mortimer-- a "man of science--" has suggested that a supernatural being is the killer of the late Sir Charles Baskerville. He even asks Dr. Mortimer whether...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
There are actually two criminals in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of Baskervilles. The first one to be captured is Seldon, or Notting Hill Murderer. He turns out to be the brother of Mrs....
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Stapleton trained the hound and then covered it with phosporus to give it a scary appearance and make it glow in the dark like a fiend from hell. Phosporus is a chemical that glows in the dark...
