Greed In The Hound Of The Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes was told to come to Baskerville hall for an investigation. During the novel, he goes through some death-defying acts that end up solving the mystery of who was the greediest. With regard to this novel, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s, The Hound of the Baskervilles explores the theme of greed as a powerful motivator by bringing characters into the novel that live for money. The affair is the author brings a character that wants money and will do anything for cash. The Arthur illustrates when Sherlock Holmes is asking questions to Watson and asked him after sir Charles death. ‘“Did Barrymore profit at all by Sir Charles will… He and his wife had 500 pounds each...Did they know they would receive this...yes”’(29). They knew that they would receive the money, so they could have killed Sir Charles for the money. The author adds characters to the novel that have intentions to kill anyone for greed. The characters want money, money, money and will do anything to get it.

The author portrays ‘“If we were safely out of the country it would relieve the taxpayer of a burden.”’(69) The person who found Selden would not have to worry about the taxes if Selden wasn’t found. The characters are taking advantage of the lost convict to distract the investigator from finding out about their plan.The characters in the novel are greedy and they will use people to get away with their evil and horrible plan. If Selden wouldn’t have escaped and came to the moor than Sherlock Holmes would’ve found out more about his investigation. Instead, he had to worry about what he was going to do with Selden but ended up not even bothering