When looking at The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/u> through a lens of Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/u>, I realized that both novels include a main character as the \u201cdetective\u201d, but more interestingly the characters use different methods.<\/p>\n
Robert Audley, from Lady Audley\u2019s Secret and Sherlock Holmes, from The Hound of the Baskervilles both try to uncover the mystery presented to them. They use their resources such as letters and people of interest to ask questions.\u00a0The interesting difference is that Sherlock Holmes is a well-known detective who knows none of the people is his case personally. While Robert Audley is not an actual detective, and his case involved people with whom he was emotionally attached to.<\/p>\n
Sherlock Holmes, being the well-known detective said, \u201cthe world if full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes\u201d (Doyle, 36). This quote made me wonder, are things obvious to Sherlock Holmes because he has no emotional tie to the case, or because he is a professional, and experienced detective? Does Robert Audley take a while to realize the obvious in his case because he was emotionally attached to the people in it, or because he wasn\u2019t experienced?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s interesting because Sherlock Holmes, being the experienced detective uses the word \u201cobvious\u201d a lot, for example, \u201cobvious conclusion\u201d (Doyle, 4), and \u201cobviously\u201d (Doyle, 5). This made me infer that he uses deductive reasoning as his method to uncover the case, because deductive reasoning points out the general information or what is \u201cobvious\u201d and makes more specific or particular claims later.\u00a0The word \u201cobvious\u201d infers that these things that Holmes notices are easy to observe, while they might not be for others, \u201cthings which nobody by any chance ever observes.\u201d I think Robert Audley fits into that category of \u201cnobody by chance ever observes.\u201d\u00a0Robert Audley, on the other hand has to use his circumstantial evidence in a chronological order to make a claim or theory (inductive reasoning), \u201c1. I write to Alicia\u2026. 2. Alicia writes\u2026\u201d(Braddon, 104).<\/p>\n
I think it takes Robert a long time to realize the culprit in his case because he was emotionally attached to Mr. Talboys, Alicia, Lucy, and Sir Michael. I infer that he didn\u2019t want to believe his evidence, and that his judgment was impaired. On the other hand Holmes has no emotional ties getting in the way, he just has the facts, so his judgment is not impaired and he can notice the “obvious.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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