In the speckled band the Doctor came to talk to Holmes saying, \u201c\u2019I will go when I have had my say. Don\u2019t you dare to meddle with my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here- I traced her! I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here.\u2019 He stepped swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with his huge brown hands.\u201d (Doyle, 141). Within this quotation the Doctor uses very threatening adjectives such as \u2018dare\u2019, \u2018meddle\u2019, \u2018dangerous\u2019, and \u2018foul\u2019. He uses this vocabulary to exemplify his power to Holmes to scare him away from solving the mystery involving the death of the Doctor\u2019s step-daughter. This fear of the law was common during the Victorian era because families wanted to maintain respect to their family name. In the Lady Audley\u2019s secret, they keep Lady Audley from going to court for attempting to murder George for the same reason of maintaining respect. The use of power here is also consistent with gothic fiction. Here the power is used to compel Holmes into stopping his search for the truth. He proves this by showing his strength in bending the poker. The description of the Doctor also creates an image for the reader when getting to the end of the short story, which makes it make more sense that he would be playing with this dangerous snake from India. Without this quotation the reader wouldn\u2019t have the characterization to make the ending believable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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