English essay part one Essay

In this essay I am going to explain how Conan Doyle adds tension and suspense to The Adventure of the mottle gang I will be discussing descriptions of the setting and characters also the language he uses, I will also look into the time period it was written. sherlock Holmes was written during the dainty era. This was a time in London when there was much crime and poverty, London was a vile and dangerous charge. Victorian people greatly feared crime with Jack the Ripper on the loose, the police couldnt catch him because their methods were inefficient and many receive rid oficers were corrupt.Victorians resented the police in London because they did not appear to be protecting the public. In 1887 Arthur Conan Doyle created, Sherlock Holmes, Victorians immediately evil for the fictional character. They liked him because he cracked every case and ceaselessly got the bad guy. He was seen as the perfect detective. When Doyle tried to kill off his famous character, in 1893, he rec eived death threats warning him to slip by Holmes alive Even know over 100 years on from Holmes birth in 1887 he is still popular.The story is called The Adventure of the Speckled Band. it starts with a frightened Helen pitr telling the story of her sister Julia stoner, and the dusky circumstances surrounding her death and her concerns for her own life. Sherlock Holmes investigates and finds that Julia had been murdered by Dr. Roylott who was trying to kill Helen as well, but before Holmes could catch Dr. Roylott, the snake in the grass that he was using to try and kill the two girls, turns on him and he gets bitten and killed by it.The setting adds tension to the story because they create a unquiet atmosphere, it does this in many ways, like in the description that Helen Stoner gives of tend Moran Manor, she says Indian animals wonder freely over his grounds and are feared by the villagers this gives the impression that he doesnt want anyone on his property. When the contrib utor learns that Vagabonds. inhabit in the grounds this causes tension because they are another suspect and it makes the reader wonder why he does not want others on the grounds.The reader feels intrigued when Helen Stoner says we had no feeling of security unless our doors were locked because, for most people, their home is the safest place in the world but Helen needs her door locked to feel safe. When the shadow is described as being A wild night. The wind was shout out side and the rain was beating this creates anticipation because something always happens during a storm, this is called pathetic fallacy. The description windows blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad atomic number 26 bars. makes it sound as if Helen is a prisoner and Dr.Roylott is like a guard, and a prison is designed so, no one can get in or more importantly no one can get out. The description of Stoke Moran as a building of grey.. stone with.. two curving wings link the claws of a crab uses a simil e create the feeling that the house is alive and closing in on its occupants. The words gathering immorality makes it sound as if the darkness is alive and trying to consume everything How does Conan Doyle create tension and suspense in The Adventure of the Speckled Band?