analisis novel the hound of baskervilles

Analysis of Novel

’The Hound of the Baskervilles’

Title              : The Hound of the Baskervilles

Author          : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher       : PT Dian Rakyat

ª    The main characters

The main characters in The Hound of the Baskervilles are :

ü Sherlock Holmes 

ü Dr. Watson 

ü Sir Henry Baskerville

ü Sir Charles Baskerville  

ü Sir Hugo Baskerville  

ü Mortimer 

ü Mr. Jack Stapleton  

ü Miss Stapleton  

ü Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore  

ü Mr. Frankland 

ü  Selden

ª     Characteristic

·      Sherlock Holmes -  Main character, protagonist. Holmes is a very clever detective. He live and works in London at 221b Baker Street. A detective with a keen eye, hawked nose, and the trademark hat and pipe.

·      Dr. Watson -  Main character, protagonist. Dr. Watson is Sherlock Holmes’s friend. He help Sherlock Holmes to solve mysteries. Watson acts as a foil for Holmes' genius and as a stand-in for us, the awestruck audience.The good doctor plays the sidekick to Holmes' self-obsessed hero figure.

·      Sir Henry Baskerville  -  Major character, protagonist, flat. The late Sir Charles's nephew and closet living relative. Sir Henry is the new owner of Baskervilles Hall. He has come from Canada to live in England.

·      Sir Charles Baskerville  -  Minor character. Sir Charles was the owner of Baskervilles Hall. He is a superstitious man, and terrified of the Baskerville curse and his waning health at the time of his death.

·      Sir Hugo Baskerville  -  Minor character, antagonist. A debaucherous and shadowy Baskerville ancestor, Sir Hugo was ther owner of Baskervilles Hall in 1645 and the cruel man who did not believe in God.

·      Mortimer  -  Minor character.Family friend and doctor to the Baskervilles. Mortimer is live in Dartmoor in the south –west of England. He is a doctor of medicine.

·      Mr. Jack Stapleton  -  Minor character, antagonist, round. A thin and bookish-looking entomologist and one-time schoolmaster, Stapleton live in Merripit House near Grimpen Mire. He is interested in the plants,  birds and insect on Dartmoor.

·      Miss Stapleton  -  Minor character. Miss Stapleton  is Stapleton’s sister. She lives in Merripit House. She is tall, beautifult woman with dark hair and dark eyes. But actually she is Stapleton’s wife.

·      Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore  -  Minor character, flat. They are servants at Baskervilles Hall.

·      Mr. Frankland -  Minor character. Mr. Frankland lives in Lafter Hall near Coombe Tracey. He is interested in studying the stars and has a large telescope.

·      Selden – Minir character. Selden is an escape prisoner from Dartmoon Prison.

ª      Theme

The theme of this story is puzzle.

       I chose this theme because I like about puzzle adventure.

ª      Plot

The plot of this story is conventional plot,

Because there are exposition raising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

ª      Setting

·      Setting of time :

~     One morning in 1889, when a man knocked on the door.

~     In the year 1645, Sir Hugo Baskerville was the owner of  Baskervilles Hall.

~     The next morning, Dr. Mortimer brought Sir Henry Baskerville to Basker Street.

~     That night I wrote a letter to Sherlock Holmes.

~     Then he invited Sir Henry to dinner at Merripit House on Friday night.

~     In the morning, we sent for the police.

~     Inspector Lestrade arrived from London at five o’clock.

·      Setting of place :

~     Sherlock Holmes lives 221B Baker Street, in the middle of  London.

~     The next morning, Dr. Mortimer brought Sir Henry Baskerville to Basker Street.

~     We arrived at the Northumberland Hotel at ten minutes to two.

~     Sherlock holmes came with me to Paddington Station.

~     We got off the train at the small station in Grimpen Village.

~     But here is my house – Merripit House on the moor.

~     Then he invited Sir Henry to dinner at Merripit House on Friday night.

ª      Point of view

The point of view in this short story is the omniscient point of view. The story is told by an author, using the third person, and his konwledge and prerogatives are unlimited. He go whenever he whishes, to peer inside the minds and heart of his characters will and tell us what they thinking or feelling. He knows all. He can tell us as much as little as he pleases.

Summary of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” Novel’s

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is in their home office at 221b Baker Street in the middle of London. Watson examines a mysterious cane left in the office by an unknown visitor.Mortimer arrives and introduces himself. Dr. James Mortimer appeals for help to Sherlock Holmes. Mortimer reads to Holmes and Watson a description of the origin of the curse written by a descendant of Hugo Baskerville. According to the legend, about Sir Hugo Baskerville was the owner of Baskervilles Hall and the myth. Mortimor also description the mystery of the death of Sir Charles Baskervilles.

 Holmes and Watson quickly discover that Sir Henry Baskerville is being trailed in London by a mysterious bearded stranger. Holmes, however, announces that he is too busy in London to accompany Mortimer and Sir Henry to Devonshire to get to the bottom of the case, and he sends Dr. Watson to be his eyes and ears, insisting that he report back regularly.

Mortimer, Watson, and Sir Henry set off for Baskerville Hall the following Saturday. But, in the outside Baskervilles Hall, Mortioer leave Watson and Sir Henry because he have something to do. Barrymoore and his wife already to greeting them in Baskervilles Hall. Watson has trouble sleeping that night, and hears a woman sobbing.

Watson meets Jack Stapleton, a naturalist familiar with the moor even though he has only been in the area for two years.  He then runs off after a specimen of the butterfly. Watson is not alone for long before Miss Stapleton, Jack's sister, approaches him. Mistaking him for Sir Henry, she urgently warns him to leave the area, but drops the subject when her brother returns.  Before he gets far along the path, Miss Stapleton overtakes him and retracts her warning. Watson notices that the brother and sister don't look very much alike.

Sir Henry soon meets Miss Stapleton and becomes romantically interested, despite her brother’s intrusions. Watson meets another neighbour, Mr. Frankland, a harmless eccentric whose primary pastime is initiating lawsuits. Barrymore draws increasing suspicion, as Watson sees him late at night walk with a candle into an empty room, hold it up to the window, and then leave. Realising that the room has a view out on the moor, Watson and Sir Henry determine to figure out what is going on.

Meanwhile, during the day, Sir Henry continues to pursue Miss Stapleton until her brother runs up on them and angrily. To show there are no hard feelings, he invites Sir Henry to diner with him and his sister on Friday.

Sir Henry then becomes the person doing the surprising, when he and Watson walk in on Barrymore. Barrymore refuses to answer their questions, since it is not his secret to tell, but Mrs. Barrymore’s. She tells them that the runaway. Selden is her brother and the candle is a signal to him that food has been left for him. They see Selden by another candle, but are unable to catch him.When they tried to catch selden, they had an accident and killed Selden.

Watson meet Holmes in the moor, he tells all strangers in Baskervilles and actually Holmes know that. They meet Sir Henry, and they setting the trap. Holmes sent a telegram and Inspector Lestrade will come to join with them, Holmes and Watson met Inspector Lestrade at Grimpen Station. They followed Sir Henry go to Merripit House, Sir Henry meting to Stapleton, but there is not miss Stapleton. When Sir Henry go home, he has attact a huge black shape. Holmes and Watson fired their revolver at the black shape, and the dog is dead.

Miss Stapleton, who turns out to be Stapleton wife and not his sister, is discovered tied up in his house, having refused to participate in his dastardly scheme.Back in London, Holmes open that mysterious warning note came from Miss Stapleton, whose philandering husband had denied their marriage so as to seduce and Miss Stapleton. Her husband tried to kill Sir Henry for Baskerville money.

ª      Moral value

The moral value of the short story are:

“Greedy people who will bring him into the destruction”

“Think before you act”