The Speckled Band

In the speckled band the detectives showed a lot of empathy towards Mary as they were her husband’s work colleagues, they also consumed food within the crime scene, which was breaking the rules, therefore with their own mistakes they ate the weapon (leg of lamb) and they weren’t as effective as they should’ve been, whereas they were liable, to being the ones to help destroy the weapon. They were more sympathetic. Comparing that to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who were more dedicated to their work, they prepared carefully inorder to work out the criminal mentality.

In the story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” the author Conan Doyle portrays many different narrative techniques. He uses these techniques to provide meaning for the audience as well as help them visualize the situation that was being described. The different techniques used are narrative discourse, suspense, conflict, close, and focalization in his story. Narrative discourses are events, to describe a series of events that are contingent one on another. Typically focuses on one or more performers of actions. Personal experience can influence narrative discourse due to the explaining of significant events in the life of the narrator. Narrative discourse is made up of exposition/ setting, developing conflict, climax, final suspense, and conclusion. The narrative discourse is being portrait in the story by Sherlock trying to find the mystery. Helen Stoner goes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for help on figuring out the mystery of her sister’s death, and they both investigate. It all begins with the renovation that was done to the room. Holmes arrived to Dr. Grimesby Roylott’s home in order to investigate the noise that his daughter seemed to be hearing from the bedroom that the sister was killed in. Holmes describes the room “very strange” he found the ventilator open into another room as well as the bell-rope. The ventilator was the small opening between two rooms as well as the bed was fastened to the floor. “A ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who

I found this story very exciting but most of all I like the part when

Through out the story, Roylott is overall presented as threatening, dangerous and a intelligent man. This can be identified through his appearance, behaviour and motives, there is also evidence of this personality in the story. Also, Conan Doyle uses various phrases and words to describe him which suggests the man to be dangerous.

Conan Doyle in “The Speckled Band” allows Sherlock Holmes to discover clues that he relays to Watson allowing the reader to get a feeling for what is to come. The clues that are discovered may not help the reader solve the mystery, but that is why Doyle’s stories have lasted for ever because they keep the readers guessing. During the story, Holmes points out several important clues including the dummy bell pull connected

to kill Helen Stoner was so he would not have to give his late wife's

In this essay, I am going to look at how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has

The ending of The Hound of the Baskervilles is not how one would expect a regular novel to end, however, since the beginning of the story started in the same way, the ending was somewhat expected. The story’s expectations are all resolved in the last chapter as we are given explanations for all of the unanswered questions we have gathered over the course of the story as well as gaining some more knowledge on some of the characters, such as Stapleton. We learn his real name is actually Rodger Baskerville and had before lived in South America. Once the case of the hound has been solved, it makes sense to end it with just Holmes and Watson talking, because it gives the reader the perspective that they have now returned to their “normal life” and

As an investigator, Sherlock Holmes was not guilty for the demise of Dr. Roylott. The story, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, when in the room of Helen Stoner, waited for evidence for the cause of Julia Stoner’s death. When both men traveled to the room of Dr. Roylott, they saw that Dr. Roylott was dead, with the speckled band-the deadliest snake in India- wrapped around Dr. Roylott’s head. The cause of Dr.Roylott’s death was not Sherlock Holmes’s accountability. Dr. Roylott had knowledge about animals from India; therefore he should have been able to control the snake. Additionally, Dr. Roylott never ended up dying when trying to kill Julia,

Lucy was murdered and found in the churchyard. Her own fiancé was the one who had to purify his love once again, Arthur was heartbroken after what had happened, and was grieving for a while. We wish Arthur and Lucy’s family our condolences, after the tragic incident that had occurred. Lucy was victimized by Dracula and her death was a consequence of a vampire bite.

my God! Helen! It was the band! The Speckled band!" In the Lamb to the

Roylott in The Speckled Band proves Nietzsche’s idea to be true. Roylott is in a conflict with his stepdaughters. He planned to remove both daughters before they get married because under the mother’s will, both daughters will take an amount of money with them when they get married. This angered Roylott because this meant he would have less money. Helen’s sister has died two years ago, shortly before she was about to get married. Helen had heard her sister’s words the moment before she died, “The speckled band!” but she had been unable to understand the meaning. Now Helen, too, is engaged, and she has began to hear strange noises. Holmes listens carefully to Helen’s story and agrees to take the case. Holmes and Watson arrange to spend the night in Helen’s room. Little did they know, Roylott planned to kill Helen with the same method he used on his first stepdaughter. Vivid imagery was used in the climax as they waited in the darkness; “Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. Then suddenly another sound became audible- a very, gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of stream escaping continually from a kettle.” The slight noise and dim light through the ventilator stimulates Holmes to take action. The suspense foreshadows something bad is going to happen. Holmes discovers on the bell cord the “speckled band”, a poisonous snake. Roylott’s actions proves Nietzsche’s ideas to be true because his strong desire for money has corrupted him thus leading him to do worse things such as killing his two

Due to Holmes’ suspicion he and Watson desired to investigate further; they departed to Stoke Moran. They revealed some interesting clues. First of all, the bed was clamped to the floor, there were metallic bars on the windows, along with a forged bell chord attached to a ventilator. Holmes soon found out that the ventilator was connected to Dr. Roylott 's room. This made Sherlock curious, wanting to know more. Helen was a young woman who was frightened of the strong and abusive, Dr. Roylott. She had prearranged to switch places with Sherlock and Watson so they could resolve the case once and for all. She exchanged places after Dr. Roylott was “asleep”. When Sherlock and Holmes arrived to Stoke Moran, they waited and waited. During the middle of the story, both the mood and tone shift. The mood soon became petrified. The tone soon also became something else, challenging. Sherlock Holmes and

“The Adventure of the Speckled Band” Essay Within the context of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes; a clever detective, accompanied by his partner, Dr.Watson; a loyal medical doctor, solve an antagonizing, life or death mystery. A young, timid woman by the name of Helen Stoner arrived at Baker Street in early April 1883. Helen fears for her life and is curious about her sister’s death, which took place the eve of her wedding. Helen’s sister, Julia, started hearing peculiar noises prior to her death.

The meeting of Helen Stoner is very important. She is described as having veiled and fully black attire. This suggests that she is in mourning. She is also described as having frightened eyes, like those of a hunted animal, and being very agitated and trembling. Conan Doyle regularly uses this technique of showing the reader the symptom before a cause is established.