Suspicion can be fascinating but haunting. Since Victorian times, the suspicious death case of Sir Charles Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskerville has intrigued/compelled vast amounts of readers. However, recent audiences are more compelled to stories with a modern twist of horror and gruesomeness. Because of less main characters, a fast-paced plot, and the differing point of view of Atwood’s The Hound of the Baskervilles film adaptation, the film has a frightening, intriguing mood with a new perspective compared to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original novel. The novel’s point of view is Watson’s perspective, whereas the film adaptation is told in third person, making the events less involved with Watson. Because the novel is told in Watson’s …show more content…
Both the film and the novel incorporate Holmes as the judgemental, observational, and intelligent detective, while Stapleton is the cunning, evil villain. the novel, there are more main characters, such as Laura Lyons, who plays an important role in the case. It states, "Mrs. Laura Lyons of Coombe Tracey had written to Sir Charles Baskerville and made an appointment with him at that very place and hour he met to his death.” In contrast, the film has less main characters. Therefore, both have a suspenseful mood, but the novel has a more suspicious mood while the film has a more dramatic mood. The director chooses to remove some characters to dramatically focus on less suspects of the case. His decision makes the movie more …show more content…
Holmes and Watson’s antagonist in the novel is the logic aspect of the case. For example, Holmes says “Of course, if...we are dealing with forces outside the ordinary laws of Nature, there is an end to our investigation. But we are bound to exhaust all other hypotheses before falling back to this one.” Also, in the novel, the logical solution and evidence is explained in further detail, for Holmes gives “a sketch of the course of events from memory” in the resolution. There are many subplots in the novel, such as Seldon’s escape, Sir Henry and Mrs. Stapleton, and Sir Charles Baskerville and Laura Lyons, which answered many questions about the case and evidence against Stapleton. On the other hand, the main conflict in the film is Holmes and Watson against the superstition aspect of the case. Unlike in the novel, when Watson and Sir Henry dine at Merripit House with the Stapletons and Mrs. Mortimer, Mrs. Mortimer performs a ritual to call the superstitious spirit of Sir Charles, which a gigantic hound then pounces at the window. This shows that the director wanted to focus on superstition instead of logic. Also, to make the story more interesting, the director shows the dead body of Sir Charles as the exposition instead of Dr. Mortimer’s walking
In my opinion there are a lot of comparisons between the film and the book, but there are also differences between them too, but also they have impacted the audience in both the film and the
“Fraud is the daughter of greed” -Jonathan Gash In the book, “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, there is a variety of characters that show several emotions. One of these emotions includes greed. Greed causes terrible things. Greed is a feeling or emotion that motivates people to go to extreme lengths, this is shown when in the book, Hugo kidnaps a girl, Barrymore wants to leave with all of Sir Charles money, and L.L. begs for money from Sir Charles.
It had more narration so the reader could understand what is happening. Secondly, the movie. The movie was different than the book. It had some parts that were in the book, but it lacked some details.
In the short story, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson met a woman by the name of Helen Stoner. Helen’s story occurred in the spring of April 1883 at the Roylott family estate, Stoke Moran. Helen visited Holmes and Watson to secure their assistance in investigating the mysterious death of her twin sister Julia. Helen Stoner traveled a great distance, without her step-father Dr. Roylott’s knowledge, to convince Holmes to take on the task of identifying the cause of Julia’s death. Julia had died on the eve of her own wedding.
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes helps you learn about how Sherlock was smart, serious, and brave. So If you like a good mystery book this is the one you should choose. About the book, Why does a burglar keep smashing statues of Napoleon? What is the Speckled Band is the Sp? Come join Sherlock Holmes and his helpful friend Dr. Watson as they find the clues to the truth of these cases and many more.
They slightly differ from one another. The novel is set way into the future with many types of new technology and obviously very new laws on censorship. The film is set in a contemporary futuristic setting, but it lacks some major features from the book. Three big ones are the wall-sized televisions, jet-powered cars and most importantly, the mechanical hounds. The main reason I say the most important is the mechanical hound is because it has a large roll in the government trying to capture Montag.
This is the first book by Sir Author Conan Doyle I have ever read. I have always heard of Sherlock Holmes and his great adventures, but I had never read or even seen the movie. At first I was a little lost, I had to honestly read it again and again. I could not tell who was telling the story. Then, I was able to tell that a man named Watson was the one telling the story.
By having Watson talk about his deductions, Holmes more quickly comes to the right conclusion, as Watson's wrong answers stimulate him in coming up with the right ones. If Watson were not there, Holmes could be left pondering for hours about what the correct inference is for different scenarios. Watson also is helpful when Holmes himself cannot be there. Later on, when Holmes goes over the overview of the case, he explains why he could not accompany Watson to the Baskerville estate. Holmes’ main objective in going to Devonshire is to observe Stapleton's movements, but he states "I could not do this if I were with you, since he [Stapleton] would be keenly on his guard" (256).
First of the many key differences is sought in the very first scene. The book starts the viewer off with heavily detailed introduction, where Watson and Holmes find a cane; being detectives they begin to analyze immediately. However, the movie took a more "Hollywood" approach and
To convince Holmes of the veracity of his request, he brings with him a document from 1742, a statement from Baskerville Hall about the hound haunting the Baskerville family (Doyle 10-11). The statement contains the details of events that happened one night in 1742 to a one Sir Hugo Baskerville and his friends; one evening they
There were two differents types of Sherlock Holmes created. In the story there was a Holmes that was quite, kept to himself and intelligent. In the story he was always getting into another case one after the other. In the movie he was more aggressive, observative, and he liked to do experiments and create things. He had two different types of personalities from the book the movie.
Sometimes, examining the case in a different view, thinking as a murder, will decrease the time to solve the puzzle. Depending too much on the clues, which getting from people on the train, makes him going to the loop that all people cannot be a murder, but he sometimes thinks that everyone can be a murder. On the half of this novel, Poirot thinks like he can find the murder by asking people and focuses on what they react to a trap that he builds. However, Holmes does not use that way, he usually thinks as a murder because he knows that a murder can tell him a nice story without any errors in it. So he can distinguish what answer is truth or lying.
The letter said that he needs his opinion because there has been a crime during the night at 3, Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road. A body of a gentleman well-dressed with cards in his pocket baring the name of Enoch J. Drebber has been found in the empty house. According to the evidence, there had been no robbery. The body din not present wounds, but there were marks of blood in the room. At first, instance, Sherlock resolved not to go but Dr. Watson insisted.
English Writing Task “The Hound of the Baskervilles” The character we’re writing about is Sir Henry Baskerville. Sir Henry Baskerville is a “small, eager, dark-eyed man”, who has “thick dark hair and is sunburnt, like one who has spent most of his time in the open air.” He is not married and has a farm (which is not mentioned in this book, therefore we had to do some research on our own) in Canada “we inquired for this young gentleman, and found out that he had been working in Canada”.
Sir Charles Baskerville Sir Charles Baskerville, a mature, brilliant, thoughtful man which is fortunate until, something unfortunate occurs to him. The Hound of the Baskervilles written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The novel starts and ends in London, in Holmes' office at 221b Baker Street. The rest of the novel mostly takes place at the imposing Baskerville Hall. Sherlock Holmes unravels the mystery of the legendary hound that haunts the Baskerville family for centuries.