Ke Xue: The Physique Of The Succubus At The Beginning Was Reversed By Xiao Ran

"Do you like the study of red?" the middle-aged man asked the woman behind him.

The woman replied: "Yes."

The middle-aged man said: "That was Sherlock Holmes' first appearance, the most memorable first work."

The young man next to the woman said excitedly: "I like the Red League the best."

In order to integrate into it as quickly as possible, Wu Fan said: "I prefer "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

The middle-aged man raised his thumb and praised: "It's very tasteful! This is the most representative masterpiece of the Sherlock Holmes series.

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" is a novella written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which can be called the representative work of the Sherlock Holmes detective story series.

This work tells the story of the mysterious legend of the "devil-like hunting dog" that has been circulating in the Baskerville family for three hundred years. As the legend goes, Sir Charles died in a marsh not far from London.

In addition, there are many movies with the same name.

This story is very classic, and Wu Fan still remembers it till now.

On a beautiful morning in September, the detective Sherlock Holmes received ten letters from ten doctors named James Mortimer.

At half past ten in the morning, Dr. Mortimer arrived as scheduled, bringing with him a bunch of mysterious manuscripts from the late Sir Charles Baskerville.

The letter tells the story of how Hugo Baskerville, the ancestor of the Baskerville family, committed evil more than a hundred years ago, and ultimately led to his own death at the teeth of the legendary and fierce Baskerville Hound.

Since then, the Baskerville family has been shrouded in the shadow of the crimes committed by their ancestors, and the heirs of the family patriarch have died in strange and horrific ways.

At first, Holmes was not attracted by the story of Dr. Mortimer, thinking it was just an interesting legend.

But as Dr. Mortimer gradually told Holmes about the doubts about the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Holmes decided to intervene in the case because he realized that it was not only related to the real cause of death of the late Earl Charles, but also to the Baskervilles. The life of Henry Baskerville, the next heir to the Vale estate, was in danger.

What's even more disturbing is that Holmes' investigation seems to have been noticed by the mastermind behind the scenes...

Under the ingenious arrangement of Holmes, his loyal partner Dr. Watson accompanied Sir Henry back to Baskerville Manor.

While at Baskerville Manor, Dr. Watson encountered various strange things one after another, such as the miserable cry of a woman in the middle of the night and the suspicious behavior of Butler Barrymore at night.

There were also fragments of a letter which he later discovered had not been completely burned by Sir Charles before his death, and so on.

At the same time, Sir Henry fell in love with Beryl, the sister of his neighbor Stapleton. Strangely, Stapleton didn't seem to like Sir Henry very much.

These many doubts made him feel like he was falling into the clouds. Just when he decided to go deep into the tiger's den to explore the truth, he unexpectedly encountered Holmes who had never descended.

It turns out that in order to find out the secret of the legendary terrible hound and the tragedy that happened at Baskerville Manor, Holmes deliberately hid from the public and hid alone in an inaccessible swamp, enduring the storm, loneliness and cold attacks.

At this time, the cunning criminal began to lose control and gradually surfaced. He couldn't wait and accidentally killed the fugitive Seldo who was wearing Sir Henry's clothes. This made Holmes even more convinced that his deduction was correct.

It turns out that the murderer is Stapleton, who is disguised as a scholar. There are three brothers in the Baskerville family, the eldest brother is from Charles' lineage, the second brother is from Henry, and he is the illegitimate son of the third brother.

After he learned about this legend, he raised a dog, pretended to be unmarried, and asked his wife to seduce Henry, trying to lure him to the swamp to disguise himself as a devil and kill people.

As for the steward's suspicious actions, it was because the fugitive Seldo was his brother-in-law, and he had to protect him.

Like the previous works, the narrator of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is Dr. Watson, who, as Holmes's close partner, becomes an important participant in the case.

Most of the novel is presented in the form of Watson's memoirs, which also means that Watson is an extra-story narrator, that is, "has a higher level of authority over the stories he narrates."

Although it cannot be equated to omniscient narration, when he tells the story, he already knows the ins and outs of the events.

Although the narrator already knew everything, when telling the story, he deliberately concealed some of the facts and did not reveal the truth until the end.

For example, Watson knows that the legend of the Hound was deliberately distorted by Stapleton, but he does not reveal this until the climax of the novel.

By setting up suspense, this design delays the reader's sense of satisfaction from knowing the truth, prompting the reader to continue reading. Watson participated in the investigation of the entire incident.

As one of the main participants in the story he narrates, he can be defined as a co-narrator.

The first-person narrative method can increase the reader's sense of identification and experience the development of the story from the narrator's perspective.

For example, when Watson and Henry returned to Baskerville Mansion after chasing the fugitives to no avail, he described his heavy heart like this: "I myself felt mentally heavy, vaguely aware of some imminent danger - —It should be said that it is some kind of danger that is always present. The scary thing is that I can’t tell what its nature is.”

Since the previous narrative has laid the foundation for this inexplicable fear, it is easier for readers to empathize with the narrator and experience the tremendous pressure from unknown dangers. Although the reader believes that the novel will follow the consistent routine of the detective genre and that the danger will be lifted at the last moment, the tension caused by the text will not weaken due to the strong emotional identification between the narrator and the reader.

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The setting of narrators outside the story and narrators in the same story, on the one hand, facilitates the author to hide important information in order to attract readers; at the same time, it makes readers emotionally identify, and then achieves the purpose of attracting readers by setting up suspense.

Doyle did not narrate the story in chronological order, but reshuffled the events to make the text present diverse features.

For example, when Watson and his party are about to go to Dartmoor, Holmes compares the wasteland to a "stage" where a tragedy is about to be staged.

Obviously he is referring to something that has not happened yet. This kind of narrative can be called flashback or prenarration.

Doyle uses this advance narrative method to tell readers that a "drama" is about to begin.

As Genette said, prenarration rarely appears in Western narrative texts, but Doyle uses it skillfully to draw the reader's full attention to the story that is about to happen.

In addition to a few previews, the novel also contains long flashbacks, or flashbacks.

One of the functions of flashbacks is to provide background knowledge for current events. For example, when Watson and Dr. Mortimer were talking about a woman whose initials were L.L., Mortimer told him the identity of the woman and told about her involvement. experience.

This background knowledge can provide readers with clues and a glimpse of the truth.

However, due to the disordered narrative timing, it is not a small challenge for readers to piece together the information scattered throughout the text. But it is this non-linear narrative that makes the story confusing and enhances the sense of suspense.

In addition, flashbacks also delay the revelation of the truth, allowing readers to retain their curiosity until the very end.

In this case, although the criminal has been punished, the motive of the crime is still unknown.

It is not until the last chapter that Holmes slowly reveals Stapleton's conspiracy in the Baker Street apartment.

Such flashbacks fill the information gaps in the previous text and maintain the tension of the text to the maximum extent. It can be said that the use of prenarration and flashback makes the novel more attractive.

Conan said, "My four favorite signatures."

The young man replied: "That book is indeed a masterpiece recognized by the world."

The middle-aged man smiled and said: "Kid, you are awesome, you can recognize so many words."

"It's okay." Conan was very happy to be praised.

Mouri Kogoro whispered to Ran Mouri: "Really, why do I have to join this kind of tour group? Xiao Ran."

Ran Mouri said: "Because it was Conan who signed up for this tour group on his own initiative."

Mouri Kogoro said somewhat speechlessly: "And it was unfortunate that he was selected for a long time.".