{"id":763,"date":"2017-09-28T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=763"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:44:23","slug":"763","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/09\/28\/763\/","title":{"rendered":"Light vs. Dark between Texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which has been left upon both of us by our first experience at Baskerville Hall. As Sir Henry and I sat at breakfast the sunlight flooded in through the high mullions windows, throwing watery patches of color form the coats-of-arms which covered them. The dark panelling glowered like bronze in the golden rays, and it was hard to realize that this was indeed the chamber which has struck such a gloom into our souls upon the evening before.\u201d (Doyle 62).<\/span><\/p>\n

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When comparing the text of <\/span>The Hound of the Baskervilles <\/span><\/i>with that of <\/span>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/span><\/i>\u00a0through a lens of theme and night\/day language<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>I notice similarities between their depictions of night versus day. \u00a0In the night, the atmosphere surrounding the country estate carries a scary, secretive, and murderous vibe. But as the daily cycle continues and the sun rises, a happy vibe accompanies its return. \u00a0In <\/span>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/span><\/i>, darkness and night time cast a shadow over the mysterious Lady Audley\u2019s hidden secrets. But as daytime returns, Lady Audley appears to be a frivolous and happy woman. In <\/span>The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/span><\/i>, as Watson and Sir Henry approach Baskerville Hall in the night time in the \u201cdark against the evening sky,\u201d they sense a dark and evil atmosphere (Doyle 61). Sir Henry hopes that \u201cthings may seem more cheerful in the morning,\u201d just as Lady Audley appears more cheerful in the daytime, but ultimately is the same person in day and night.<\/span><\/p>\n

A difference between these two texts include the secrets which characters are hiding. Even before we read the first page of <\/span>Lady Audley\u2019s Secret<\/span><\/i>, we can infer that Lady Audley has a secret from the title. \u00a0But in <\/span>The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/span><\/i>, we know that there are secrets being hidden but we don\u2019t know who is withholding what information. I have suspicions about Dr. Mortimer, who was present the night of Sir Charles\u2019 death. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which has been left upon both of us by our first experience at Baskerville Hall. As Sir Henry and I sat at breakfast the sunlight flooded in through the high mullions windows, throwing watery patches of … Continue reading Light vs. Dark between Texts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","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\/763","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\/3618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}