Hound Of The Baskervilles Mrs Stapleton Analysis

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In the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Conan Doyle, there are a lot of different characters in which Doyle portrays in all different ways. In Particular, Doyle’s character Mrs. Stapleton; Stapleton’s alleged sister, turns out to be his wife. Mrs. Stapleton seems to do whatever her husband asks of her, basically if he says “jump” she says “how high”. Now one may ask why Mrs. Stapleton goes along with pretending to be her husband’s sister, simply put Mrs. Stapleton does what her husband says because she is in love with him and thinks that he loves her back, but is also afraid of what he will do if she does not obey him. She has stuck by Stapleton through every bad thing he has done in the story; she was completely loyal to him. That is until she learns he is going to kill Sir Henry Baskerville. Upon finding this out she tried her best to send his secret warnings in hopes of scaring him into staying home for his own safety. When she learns that Sir Henry plans to move to Baskerville Hall, she makes a mysterious note warning him to stay away. When this fails she; without knowing his identity, warns Watson to get out and never come back, she fears for the life of Sir Henry as she knows that he will be killed next if he stays. The big question most people would wonder, is why would she be so secretive, why wouldn’t she …show more content…

However when Holmes and Watson found her tied up and beaten, she had no problem spilling all of her husband’s secrets even though it would incriminate herself as well. She told them exactly where he would have run on the moor and how he planned to get there, and was even happier to say that with the fog and his panic he would have more than likely fallen in the mire and would be dead. She was glad to be rid of the monster that was her

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