Comparing Stories Over the passed six weeks we have been reading two detective stories: ‘The Speckled Band’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ by Roald Dahl. Both stories are diverse and decisive but‚ are very different. The stories contain basic detective ingredients such as‚ the evil villain‚ the cunning detective and most importantly an action packed ending. ‘The Speckled Band’ is a fairly long story which is filled with information. The text is stretched out into many
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“The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ a mystery story‚ was more interesting than its movie version because it has more details of the characters and places‚ that give you a better understanding of the story. In the book there are more details about the places that the characters go‚ so that helps you to get a better picture of what is going on. For example in the book It describes Stoke Moran as a decrepit ‚old ‚rundown estate‚ but in the movie the mansion is in pretty
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effect on readers. It may remind some of Edgar Allan Poes. Ferocious animals like the cheetah could be entertaining as well as slightly humorous ones like the baboon. It is also very appealing as it has a ’hero’ (Sherlock Holmes) and ’villain’ (Dr Roylott). The Speckled Band is presented as a ’locked room’ mystery. It has good use of red herrings; distractions from the real murderer/killer. It is written in first person‚ which makes us more intimate with the narrator‚ who in this case is Dr Watson
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Compare the murder mysteries of "A Lamb To A Slaughter" and "The Speckled Band"? Roald Dahl wrote Lamb to the slaughter in 1954‚ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Speckled Band in 1892‚ that is around 62 yrs apart which would make the stories slightly different to each other because they were wrote in two different centuries. Roald Dahl was born in 1916 and died in 1990‚ Roald Dahl was most famous for writing children stories but he did also write some books for adults like the tales of the unexpected
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Why do Conan Doyle’s readers find his Sherlock Holmes stories effective and engaging? In the Sherlock Holmes series‚ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle managed to create one of the most famous fictional characters in the whole of English literature. So engaging and evocative was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writing‚ that many people believed that Sherlock Holmes actually existed and wrote to him to ask him to solve their cases. Even after Conan Doyle killed off the character in the Hounds of Baskerville‚ the
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Characterisation in The Speckled Band You have now completed PEE work on a character: • Sherlock Holmes • Dr Roylott • Helen Stoner Choose one character to write an essay response on the folliwng quesiotn: What do we learn bout the character of Sherlock Holmes / Dr Roylott / Helen Stoner (delete as appropriate) in The Adventure of the Speckled Band? You will write a paragraph on each of the following features of their character. What do we learn about their: • Appearance • Behaviour
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The story‚ “Adventure of a Speckled Band”‚ written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‚ portrayed a secretive detective story based on Sherlock Holmes. The story consisted of numerous characters that deprived in the passage. To illustrate‚ the main character‚ Sherlock Holmes‚ played a major role; following Dr.Watson‚ Dr.Roylott‚ as well as Helen Stoner‚ who were all incorporated into the unraveling mystery. In Stoke Moran‚ England‚ the perceptible situation had begun during the time period of April 1883.
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known to solve very hard mysteries that almost nobody can solve. But in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mystery story‚ “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”‚ he solved one mystery that nobody would have expected for who have caused it. Holmes figures out Dr. Roylott had caused Julia’s death. It all started when he noticed the bed was clamped to the floor‚ there was a bell pull that did not work‚ and there was a ventilator connected between Dr.Roylott’s and Julia’s room. During Holmes investigation he discovers
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Comparing the two stories ‘The Adventures of the Speckled Band’ and ‘The Lamb to the Slaughter’ Within this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the two detective stories ‘The Adventures of the Speckled Band’ and ‘The Lamb to the Slaughter’‚ referring to the structure‚ language and characterisation. ‘The speckled band’ was written in 1892 by Sir Arthur Doyle‚ he was qualified as a doctor which gave him a medical perspective for all his stories. ‘The lamb to the slaughter’ was written in 1952
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support her claims of what statement the author is trying to portray through his writing. An example of how she demonstrated this is by picking two main corporates in each story. In the Speckled Band Raheja states that “we learn that India had turned Roylott not only into an eccentric and hot-headed unemployed widower living off his late wife’s fortune‚ but also into a man who attempts to murder both of his stepdaughters‚ and is successful
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