{"id":754,"date":"2017-09-28T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T13:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=754"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:45:03","slug":"setting-at-audley-court-and-baskerville-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/28\/setting-at-audley-court-and-baskerville-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting at Audley Court and Baskerville Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBut behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills\u201d(56). <\/span><\/p>\n

The settings of Audley Court and Baskerville Hall are interestingly similar, despite the text being very different. The main similarity is that both residences are isolated in some manner, which makes sense considering the gothic trope of isolation. Audley Court however, is isolated in an arguably more deceptive way. The lack of linear time certainly separates it from the outside world, as well as the fact that it is physically out of the way. The court itself,though, operates normally and seems to blend well with the town of Essex. Baskerville Hall,however, is very different in its isolation. It is physically isolated which can be seen in the quote with the juxtaposition of the moor and the surrounding area. The \u201cpeaceful\u201d and \u201csunlit\u201d countryside is juxtaposed with the “gloomy” moor and \u201cdark\u201d sky. There is nothing deceptive about the moor. Its quality as \u201csinister\u201d is explicitly stated by Watson, and not implicitly inferred like that by the narrator of<\/span> Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/span><\/i>. There is clearly a physical barrier to the countryside in Devonshire and that is the moor, for its peace is \u201cbroken\u201d by the \u201cjagged hills\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

In Lady Audley\u2019s S<\/em><\/span>ecret<\/em> there was very much an element of terror from the deception of Lady Audley. She is even compared to a siren several times in the text and she is so frightening because\u00a0 she looks innocent and harmless but is in fact the opposite. Even though there is a potential for this in The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/em> based on the escaped convict and Barrymore, I don\u2019t expect the evil to be rooted in the inside because of the potent description of the evil coming from the outside, or the moor, for it is \u201cgloomy,\u201d and \u201csinister.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBut behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills\u201d(56). The settings of Audley Court and Baskerville Hall are interestingly similar, despite the text being very different. The main similarity is that both residences are isolated … Continue reading Setting at Audley Court and Baskerville Hall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3635,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}