Sherlock Holmes
Throughout The Hound of The Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses effective characterization, through the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to lure the readers in to the novel, and keep them in suspense with the complex plot that only Holmes himself seems to be able to understand. Doyle describes Holmes as "... tall and lean ... obsessively clean ... using his cold, incisive, and ironical voice. " (4). When he hides in the Grimpen Mire, he not only arranges for supplies of food but for daily clean clothes and opportunities to bathe. Holmes' voice carries with it a certainty projecting quality that every word he speaks is the cold hard truth. A "brilliant" (5) thinker ... obsessed with the intellectual aspects of criminal detection. Holmes is set up as a sort of super mastermind of all events surrounding the case. He is always two steps ahead of the reader, and three ahead of Watson. He is able to distinguish Tobacco by smell, and even with the smallest of glimpses get a perfect image of any suspect. For example when the taxi cab is spotted trailing Holmes, and it speeds off, Holmes is able to make out the cab number only after a split second look over a long distance. "My dear Watson, clumsy as I have be
Stapleton realized her husband had his hound in the outhouse, and she confronted him. This is when Beryl tried to warn him with the letter. Stapleton was behind the theft of Henry's shoes to give his hound Henry's scent. We also learn that Charles had poor health, although it was mainly caused by fear of his family course. As they meet up again with Sir Henry, they find out that a second pair of boots, this time an old one, has been taken, while the new ones have been brought back. After finding that Henry is alright Holmes discovers that the dog is covered in Phosphorus paint to make it glow. He goes on to suggest that the culprit used a pair of short-bladed nail scissors, since the longer words are cut with two snips, and that the word moor was handwritten because the author could not find it in the Times. But the first boot he stole was brand new and did not yet have Henry's scent. Once there we find one of the most important clues. Throughout the novel there are multiple instances of Holmes' cunning ability to use simple "elementary" to solve the case such as Holmes' ability to instantly deduce the type of newspaper that the warning letter sent to Sir Henry was cut out from. The next morning, after just arriving in London, Sir Henry has already received an anonymous note of warning when he arrived at his hotel. Watson plays the bumbling apprentice, who spends most of the novel trying to solve the difficult case in his Holmes's stead. " (Doyle 33)While Holmes is the ever-observant genius, he does have flaws. The change in footprints indicates running and not tiptoeing. They think they have found Sir Henry dead, judging from his clothes and boots, but it turns out to be Selden, who has been given Henry's clothes by his sister.
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