Social Sensitivity
The Hound of the Baskervilles depicts the kinds of individual disorientation that are created by social disorder. For instance, love is perverted by evil in […]
Month: December 2008
Topics for Discussion
1. What is your initial reaction after reading the manuscript that explains the myth of the “Hound of the Baskervilles”? 2. Stapleton says, “This is […]
Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Compare The Hound of the Baskervilles to several of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories. Discuss the similarities. 2. Does the nature of the […]
Related Titles and Adaptations
Although The Hound of the Baskervilles is the most popular of the Holmes adventures, the series consists of four novels and a multiplicity of short […]
About the Author
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, where his father was a bank manager. After his father’s death, four-year-old […]
Setting
The story begins and ends in The Shire, in the Village of Hobbiton, a completely imaginary place which resembles a medieval English country village unspoiled […]
Themes and Characters
The hero of The Hobbit is Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who, at the age of 50, has never had an adventure and who asserts that […]
Literary Qualities
Tolkien’s prose style tries to approximate the spoken word. He uses a variety of devices to achieve this storyteller’s style: parenthetical and exclamatory remarks, direct […]
Social Sensitivity
Although there is violence in several sections of The Hobbit, it does not become central to the plot. Both the trolls and the giant spiders […]