Homework this week- Enjoy an easy week!.Literary Analysis Essays or Book Reports.Simile contest, parallel structures, euphemisms.Helen tells the detective and his assistant that before her sister died, she shouted "It was the band! The speckled band!" It is not until later, however, that the reader finds out what she meant or the signaficance of what she was refering to. The paragraph in the beginning of the story is an example of a frame story. In this way, Doyle is able to give additional information to the reader. Chekhov's gun is also found early in the story. In this flashback, the reader learns that Holmes knew about the snake before he ever saw it. Watson, he reflects back to previous events.
When Holmes is discussing how he solved th mystery with Dr. Flashback is another plot device used in the story. Holmes asks Helen is poison could be a possible cause for her death, and although they don't accept this as a possibility, they later find the cause to be venom from a poisonous snake. Foreshadowing is used when Holmes inquires about the death of Helen Stoner's twin sister, Julia. The plot devices that were used in the story include: foreshadowing, flashback, frame story and chekhov's gun. Such interpretations provide roots for different readings of the snake and the other Indian elements that find a more positive or powerful view of both colonized cultures and the feminine in the story.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses plot devices in his short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" to create suspense. This emphasis has inspired interpretations that concentrate on the story’s imperial allusions and challenge the reading of the snake as a symbol of “destructive male sexuality” (Jann 121). Roylott’s relationship with his stepdaughters on financial rather than physical victimization. “The Speckled Band” creates tension by portraying potentially inappropriate sexuality, but it places the emphasis of Dr. This conclusion, based on the gothic elements, is supported by the phallic image of the snake that crawls nightly into the victims’ room through a small air shaft. The gothic elements also introduce the potential of submerged incestuous desire between the powerful but insane stepfather and his innocent, victimized stepdaughters.
These elements emphasize the supernatural appearance of the story’s events, making Holmes’s rational solution to the crime more surprising in comparison. The gothic reveals itself through exaggeratedly virtuous and demonic character types and through a decayed, half-empty house. “The Speckled Band” is of interest for a number of reasons, including its gothic elements, potentially sexual imagery, colonial connections, and incidental discussion of class and profession.
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