The Hound Of The Baskervilles Literary Analysis

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Everybody is afraid of something. Fear rules a plethora of people’s lives, like the characters in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. The novel is about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigating the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville, the third to last heir to the Baskerville estate. He was known to be fearful of the hound because of what it was said to have done to Sir Hugo Baskerville 150 years earlier. Throughout the novel, the author develops the theme don't be ruled by fear by describing the hound, the curse, and the moor.
To begin with, Sir Hugo Baskerville was supposedly killed by the hound and this demon dog still haunts the Baskerville family to this day. When the author described the hound, he said how it, “turned its blazing eyes and dripping jaws upon them,” (17) and how everyone ran away from it when they saw it. People were immensely petrified of the hound, as well as its abominable looks. The author also said how people saw the hound as, “luminous, ghastly and spectral,” (30). This description made the hound sound like a demon, eerie and supernatural and as a result, people often feared of it, and …show more content…

It described how Hugo Baskerville took a local yeoman's daughter, but yet she escaped causing Hugo to go after her in pursuit of his wondrous maiden. The author tells how many of the family members died unhappy deaths and how their deaths have been, “sudden, bloody, and mysterious,” (17). The burden affected the families and due to that, they all died in a dark, horrid, and dismal death. “I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted,” (17). The curse was placed upon the Baskerville family because Hugo Baskerville was oh so sure that he would never find the maiden, alive that is, but when he found her dead he realized what he said and had already forsaken the fate of his next

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