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This 3 page paper discusses the themes of greed and revenge in Arthur Conan Doyle's work, The Hound of the Baskervilles. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmess tales do more than entertain and engage the reader. They also carry universal messages about the human condition. In the Hound of the Baskervilles, the
ultimate theme is that of ultimate greed leading to ultimate ruin. One of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles greatest gripes with the detective stories that hed read as a boy
were that the detective relied on dumb luck to solve the crime, or they failed to show the reasoning through which the detective came to his conclusions(Sherlokian Resources). This was
probably seen as a form of cheating to the reader, since all of a sudden the answer would be found and the reader, who up until this time had been
involved in the case just as the detective had, is let down when the clues are not present to be collected and the crime solved. So, instead, Doyle created a
detective with the same types of character flaws, and in doing so created a detective who used both intuition as well as perception and reasoning to solve his cases(Sir A.C.
Doyle). Psychology, then, becomes as important as detective work and the detective himself gets wrapped up into a high state of excitement and obsession to become one with the criminal
mind. This is precisely what Sherlock Holmes does when he and Watson meet the mysterious owner of a cane which came into their possession. This gentleman tells them of a
man named, Sir Henry Baskerville who may require their assistance. Learning the story of Sir Henry Baskerville, they are intrigued to learn about a centuries old curse which has been
plaguing the family Baskerville. Sir Henry appears later to fill in the details. Apparently, a few generations before, a Baskerville lord had betrayed and murdered a young woman in a
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