The Speckled Band - Arthur Conan Doyle :: English Literature

The Speckled Band - Arthur Conan DoyleWhat appeal would the twaddle the speckled band call for had for aVictorian audienceThe story The Speckled Band was indite by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,and published in The Strand Magazine in 1892. The story contains thevery famous and popular character Sherlock Holmes. In this prove Iwill discuss the popularity of the Holmes stories for a Victorianaudience. To do this I will look at the expenditure of certainistic locations,the originality of the Holmes character and the use of a first personnarrator (Dr. Watson).The Speckled Band is a story that portrays life in the Victorianaudience. In this story a adult female pleas for help from Holmes about thedeath of her sister Julia. The story goes on to look for the audienceto convict the womans stepfather. Holmes finds out the stepfather is prep to kill her and finds out that the stepfather was the causeof her sisters death. The only need Holmes had foe the stepfatherfor killing his stepdaughter was for the inheritance. He also commitsthe murders by cleverly learn a snake to climb down a rope gong andon to the bed and poisoning the dupe.The Victorian readers thought that Holmes was a genuine person in thosedays. This realism is created because Holmes lived at a real send forin the stories, at Baker St. 221B and the stories are written as realcases. Holmes is a very charismatic and mysterious. In one of thestories he is called the nearly perfect reasoning and observingmachine in A scandalization in Bohemia. He is shown as the Victorian newman, who uses his brains and scientific deductions to solve things.We are told how he makes deductions as swift as intuitions.He is also chivalrous and often helps women in distress, and he neveraccepts payment for his heroics, whilst he helps people within theVictorian community. He seems to be a loner and is seen as anindividual and he doesnt seem to analogous other people.Helen Stoner is the daughter of a tyrant of a stepfather w here she iswoman in anguish and agony. She is worried about becoming a victim asher sister was before her. Being a woman in distress is a key elementin Victorian stories as well as the Holmes stories. She is seen asvulnerable and scared like a hunted animal. Helen appears to bemelodramatic, for example she wears a black veil when she visitsHolmes, eld after her sisters death, and shows the audience thatshe is deeply distressed.