Slides by Maurício Coelho Willian Araújo Lucas Lorran Raquel Benaion Ingrid Cruz

2. Summary
I. Author
II. Background
III. Title
IV. Setting
V. Characters
VI. Narrator
VII. Plot
VIII. Climax
IX. Theme
X. Tone
XI. Symbols
XII. Trivia
XIII. References

3. I. Author
• Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
• May 22, 1859
• Edinburgh, Scotland
• British Doctor and writer, poet.

4. • “The good doctor was a master at
observation, logic, deduction, and
diagnosis. All these qualities were later
to be found in the person of the
celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes.’’
Dr. Joseph Bell
• May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Mary Doyle
• passion for books and was a master storyteller
• "In my early childhood, as far as I can
remember anything at all, the vivid stories she
would tell me stand out so clearly that they
obscure the real facts of my life.’

5. In February of 1890
"I was young and full of the first joy of
life and action, and I think I got some
of it into my pages. When I wrote the
last line, I remember that I cried: 'Well,
I'll never beat that' and threw the ink
pen at the opposite wall.”

6. In May of 1891
While writing some of the early
Sherlock Holmes short stories,
Conan Doyle was struck by a
virulent attack of influenza which
left him between life and death
for several days. When his
health improved, he came to
realize how foolish he had been
trying to combine a medical
career with a literary one.

7. His firsts short-stories

8. • In March 1888.
• This story illustrates the start of Conan
Doyle’s fascination with the paranormal
and spiritualism.

9. Arthur and Jean’s wedding picture in 1907
with his brother Innes as best man

10. • ‘’After 1918, because of his
deepening involvement into the
occult, Conan Doyle wrote very
little fiction, writing arduously
about Spiritualism instead. Their
subsequent trips to America,
Australia and to Africa,
accompanied by their three
children, were also on psychic
crusades.’’

11. • Conan Doyle died on Monday, July 7, 1930, surrounded by
his family.
• His last words before departing for “the greatest and most
glorious adventure of all,” were adressed to his wife. He
whispered, “You are wonderful.”
You are wonderful
baby

12. II. Background
• Doyle thought he had enough of Holmes – two novels and 24 short stories –
and decides to kill him in “The Final Problem” in 1893.
• Holmes’ fans were angry:
 Sent death threats
 Placed memorials at the Reinchenbach Falls
 Wore black armbands
• 1901 – Bertram Fletcher Robinson.
• Dartmoor local legend about
• He set this story at an early time in Holmes’ life.
• Baskerville is – probably – also a Robinson’s cooperation
Squire Richard Cabell III Black Shucks

13. III. Title
Hound
• England in early1500’s
• Suppose to be an omen of death
• Most sightings where in point like gates, hedges, fences, bridges, roads, paths
and burial grounds.
• They just kill the Baskervilles

14. IV. Setting
Baker Street
• A London street at whose
imaginary 221B address
Holmes and Watson share
lodgings.
• There, visitors are admitted
by Mrs. Hudson, the landlady
who lives on the ground floor
and takes them upstairs to
Holmes and Watson’s sitting
room.
• The novel opens with the
house being watched during
the visit of Dr. Mortimer, a
concerned neighbor of Sir
Henry Baskerville.

15. Baskerville Hall
• Home of the Baskerville family,
located on the edge of Dartmoor.
• Baskerville Hall is fourteen miles
from Princetown, which is best
known for is proximity to the high-
security prison of Dartmoor, from
which the convicted murderer
Selden escapes.
• The grounds of Baskerville Hall
contain a long yew alley, in which
Sir Charles Baskerville is found
dead.
• About half way down the alley a
four-foot-high, white-painted
wicket gate gives access to the
moor. It is kept padlocked.

16. Grimpen
• Four miles from Baskerville Hall
• Contains only two large
buildings—a public inn and Dr.
Mortimer’s house, which stands
on the hillside above the rest.
• Also close by is Lafter Hall, the
home of Mr. Franklin, whose
rooftop telescope is instrumental
in tracking the comings and
goings of people on the moors.

17. Dartmoor
• Wild, sparsely inhabited part of southern
England Devonshire region that is dotted with
steep rocky peaks and valleys.
• Sheep and ponies roam freely, and the
hillsides are covered with heather, bracken,
and gorse.
• In autumn—the season in which the novel is
set—the moors are bleak, and the weather can
quickly change, covering the moors with thick
fog.
• The novel describes the hillsides as covered
with stones circles, the remains of numerous
Neolithic hut circles.
• The novel’s stone circles are both more
numerous and larger than the real Neolithic
circles found in that region of England.

18. Merripit House
• Home of Stapleton and his sister.
• It was once a farm and is
surrounded by an orchard of old,
stunted trees.
• Outwardly, it appears to be as bleak
as its surroundings, but inside it is
elegantly furnished.
• Not far away is Grimpen Mire, a
treacherous part of the moor, which
looks green, but whose bright
patches mask bog holes which can
swallow a man.
• Mr. Stapleton discovers a path
running through the moor that leads
to Grimpen Mine, where the hound
is hidden.

19. Laura Lyons Mr. Frankland
Henry Baskerville Doctor Mortimer
V. Characters
The Convict (Selden) Charles Baskerville
Sherlock Holmes Doctor Watson
Mrs. BarrymoreMr. Barrymore
Jack Stapleton Beryl Stapleton
All pictures were taken from the 1939 film The Hound of the Baskervilles except
Mr. e Mrs. Barrymore’ pictures and Laura Lyons’ photograph.

20. • Sherlock Holmes is the ever-observant, world-
renowned detective of 221b Baker Street.
• For all his assumed genius and intuition he is
virtually omniscient in these stories, and Holmes
becomes more accessible in the context of his
constant posturing and pretension.
Sherlock Holmes
• Dr. Watson is the stout sidekick to Holmes and
longtime chronicler of the detective's adventures.
• In Hound, Watson tries his hand at Holmes' game,
expressing his eagerness to please and impress
the master by solving such a baffling case.
• As sidekick and apprentice to Holmes, Watson acts
as a foil for Holmes' genius and as a stand-in for
us, the awestruck audience.
Dr. Watson

21. Henry Baskerville
Doctor Mortimer
• The late Sir Charles's nephew and closet living
relative. Sir Henry is hale and hearty, described
as "a small, alert, dark-eyed man about thirty
years of age, very sturdily built."
• By the end of the story, Henry is as worn out and
shell-shocked as his late uncle was before his
death.
• Family friend and doctor to the Baskervilles.
Mortimer is a tall, thin man who dresses
sloppily but is an all-around nice guy and the
executor of Charles's estate.
• Mortimer is also a phrenology enthusiast,
and he wishes and hopes to some day have
the opportunity to study Holmes' head.

22. • The longtime domestic help of the Baskerville
clan. Earnest and eager to please, the portly Mrs.
Barrymore and her gaunt husband figure as a kind
of red herring for the detectives, in league with
their convict brother but ultimately no more
suspicious than Sir Henry.
Mrs. BarrymoreMr. Barrymore
• A thin and bookish-looking
entomologist and one-time
schoolmaster, Stapleton
chases butterflies and
reveals his short temper only
at key moments.
• A calm façade masks the
scheming, manipulative
villain that Holmes and
Watson come to respect and
fear.
Jack Stapleton
• Allegedly Stapleton's
sister, this dusky Latin
beauty turns out to be his
wife. Eager to prevent
another death but
terrified of her husband,
she provides enigmatic
warnings to Sir Henry
and Watson.
Beryl Stapleton

23. • A local young woman. Laura
Lyons is the beautiful brunette
daughter of "Frankland the
crank," the local litigator who
disowned her when she married
against his will.
• Subsequently abandoned by her
husband, the credulous Laura
turns to Mr. Stapleton and
Charles for help.
Laura Lyons
• Laura's father. Frankland is a
man who likes to sue, a sort
of comic relief with a chip on
his shoulder about every
infringement on what he sees
as his rights.
• Villainized due to his one-
time harsh treatment of
Laura, Frankland is for the
most part a laughable jester
in the context of this story.
Mr. Frankland
• The head of the Baskerville
estate. Sir Charles was a
superstitious man, and
terrified of the Baskerville
curse and his waning health
at the time of his death.
• Sir Charles was also a well-
known philanthropist, and his
plans to invest in the regions
surrounding his estate make it
essential that Sir Henry move
to Baskerville Hall to continue
his uncle's good works.
Charles Baskerville
• A murderous villain, whose
crimes defy description. The
convict is nonetheless
humanized by his
association with the
Barrymores.
• He has a rodent-like,
haggardly appearance. His
only wish is to flee his
persecutors in Devonshire
and escape to South
America.
The Convict

24. “A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not
such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst
from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering
glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in
flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a
disordered brain could anything more savage, more
appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form
and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of
fog.
In mere size and strength it was a terrible creature which
was lying stretched before us. It was not a pure
bloodhound and it was not a pure mastiff; but it appeared
to be a combination of the two-gaunt, savage, and as
large as a small lioness. Even now in the stillness of
death, the huge jaws seemed to be dripping with a bluish
flame and the small, deep-set, cruel eyes were ringed with
fire.”
(...)

25. VI. Narrator
• The Hound of Baskerville is told from the point of view of Dr.
Watson.
• Watson uses a recounting of events strategy to narrate the story,
which is fairly typical in the stories of Sherlock Holmes.
• By having Watson as a narrator, the story also preserves readers’
respect for Sherlock Holmes’s detective skills. His description of
the events of The Hound of the Baskervilles emphasizes
the atmosphere of the case, with its gloomy settings and strange
people.
• If Holmes were telling the story, then we would figure things out
gradually and clues would seem as obvious to us as they are to
Holmes. No foggy moors, no silhouettes against the moon—only
the facts.

26. IV. Plot
1 – 5 Chapters
Knowing the case
6 – 11 Chapters
Investigation fase
12 – 15 Chapters
The Unexpected Final

27. 1 – Knowing the case
• Dr. James Mortimer asked Sherlock Holmes
solve a supernatural mystery that round the
Charles Barkerville’ dearth.
• The following heir, Henry Barkeville, will arrive
to assume the Barkervilles’ patrimony.
• A sequence of strange – one of the Henry
boots disapeard, a weird alert messange and
Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson are followed –
things happens what make Holmes thinks
someone is behind the facts.
• Then Sherlock Holmes send Dr. Watson to
stay next to Henry Baskerville to observe all
and to inform Holmes.

28. 2 – Investigation Fase
• Dr. Watson and Henry Baskerville went to the
Dartmoor’s solar and Watson sees how
melancolic and sad is there. Clearly
something wrong is happening over there.
• Other charecters appear as the couple
Barrymore and the siblings Stapleton.
• More strage things kept happening: a terrible
cry sounds through the moor, a criminal run
away from prison...
• Watson sent to Sherlock all his notes and he
shows he is scared of that place.

29. 3 – The Unexpected Final
The romance runs to the outcome when
the runaway who as hidden in the moor
dies after to be attacked by a rage
animal.
Sherlock Holmes appears and ravealing
that Mr. and Ms. Stapleton were married
and Mr. Stapleton was the following heir
of the Barkerville’s patrimony.
They both conclued Mr. Stapleton was
the Charles Barkerville’s killer.

30. VIII.Climax
“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound,
but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever
seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes
glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and
hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering
flame.”
‘Well?’ said he. ‘Do you not find it interesting?’
‘To a collector of fairy tales.’
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The climax is brilliant because the reader didn’t
expect a demonic hound anymore, but a
rational end.

31. IX. Theme
• Solving a murder and preventing
another;
 Crime
 Protection
 Detection
The face of Selden, the criminal - The Hound of
the Baskervilles (1939)
John Stapleton- The Hound of the
Baskervilles (1939)

32. Themes

33. X. Tone
Mystery
The first 5
chapters
1 - 5
Suspense
The
middle
chapters
6 -11
Thriller
The last
chapters
12 -15

34. XI. Symbols
• Major symbol;
• Symbolizes the dark irrationality and terror of life that
we struggle to keep at distance;
• Watson’s summary of the case, the hound symbolizes
“those dark fears and vague surmises which clouded
our lives so long and end in so tragic a manner”;
• This symbolic hound can be defeated;
• The powerful forces of family history and ancestry
 The past can definitely come back to "haunt" us
TV series Sherlock, 2012

35. XI. Symbols
• Baskerville Hall
 It has fallen into a general state of disrepair;
• “It is only two years since he [Sir Henry] took up his
residence at Baskerville Hall, and it is common talk how
large were those schemes of reconstruction and
improvement which have been interrupted by his
death.”

36. XI. Symbols
• The moor
 Danger and tragedy within the book.
• It hides the hound;

37. XI. Symbols
• The net
• Metaphor for the resolution of the
mystery:
 “We have him, Watson, we have him, and I
dare swear that before tomorrow night he
will be fluttering in our net as helpless as
one of his own butterflies.”

38. XII.Trivia
• "My story was really based on nothing save a remark of my friend Fletcher
Robinson's that there was a legend about a dog on the moor connected with
some old family.” – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1907
A historian named Rodger Garrick-Steele believes
Conan Doyle stole the romance from his best friend
Robinson after they have visited the region of
Dartmoor.

39. The Creepy Inspiration for
“The Hound of the Baskervilles”

40. Ora ora parece que temos um
xeroque rolmes aqui

41. XIII.References
• https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle
• http://www.arthurconandoyle.com/biography.html
• http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/hound/characters.html
• https://www.enotes.com/topics/hound-baskervilles/in-depth
• http://www.novelguide.com/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/metaphor-analysis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_(1939_film)
• http://pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmHoundBaskervilles25.asp
• https://www.shmoop.com/hound-of-the-baskervilles/narrator-point-of-view.html
• http://knowledgenuts.com/2014/06/10/the-creepy-inspiration-for-hound-of-the-
baskervilles/
• http://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2001/010802_holmes.shtml