Conan Doyles the Adventure Of The Speckled Band and Victorian Readers

INTRODUCTIONThe Victorian era, a time of change in industry, education and family life hi tosh brought us the famous Conan Doyle detective - Sherlock Holmes. At a point in history where wealth, media and intelligence were becoming much and more prominent in British society the mystery writing style became as fashionable as todays soaps. Doyles crime formula could be describe as a masterpiece, his stories always involving the same fundamental factors that kept his readers hooked. These factors cigaret be seen in The Adventures of the Speckled Band, Helen Stoner the helpless victim, Doctor Roylott the chary villain, a thorough investigation carried out by Holmes followed by a deduction, and a serving of justice. But the question is, how and why did these appeal so successfully to the Victorian readers?SHERLOCK HOLMESSherlock Holmes as a sham character was brought across by Conan Doyle to be a very popular detective, one of whom people insist upon seeing. This popularity is refle cted in real life as the stories had such a sense of realism the readers were compelled to see him as a real life finger. It also implies that he is successful in all the cases he is employ to examine. In the story, Holmes is a confident character, tranquillize his helpless victim, You must not fear he said soothingly. For Doyles Victorian readers, this characteristic, on with the fact he always defeated the wrong-doer, gave them a sense of look forward to and security against the frightening changes going on and the increase in crime. This safety the readers mat kept them hooked. Doyles carefully crafted detective was always polite, for example would you have the charity. He was calm, strong and dedicated with an attitude of his ?profession is its own rew... ...e had had entre to before. Holmes? characteristics added up to the ideal detective and a role model and regard of hope to Victorian society. Watson as a narrator is successfully utilise as the point through which readers could connect with the story and also the symbol utilize to create captivating tension through the language employed by Doyle. Doctor Roylott was used by Doyle as the character the readers love to hate and a stereotypical villain. The complete contrast between Holmes and Roylott created perplexity and tension for the readers. Doyle cleverly moulded the female character Helen Stoner into a figure of aspiration to his female Victorian readers. Finally, the huge sense of justice the story is based around gave the readers something to cling to with hope. All of these created the infallible technique Doyle used which successfully appealed to Victorian readers.