Helen ran over to see what happened and Julia, in a state of shock, fell to the ground in convulsions. This went on for some time, until, shortly before Julia’s wedding date, Helen heard a scream coming from her sister’s bedroom.
Shortly thereafter, Julia told Helen that she began to hear a low whistling sound in the middle of the night. Two years ago, Helen tells Holmes and Watson, her sister got engaged. Stoner had left an inheritance to Roylott, with a stipulation that should her daughters get married, they would receive an annual income from this fund. Helen’s mother died and Roylott moved back into his family’s decaying Stoke Moran Manor, along with Helen and her twin sister Julia, all of them living in adjacent bedrooms in the building’s one inhabitable wing. When he was younger, Roylott embarked on a medical career in India, where he married the widowed Mrs. Grimesby Roylott, is the sole remaining descendent of an old family whose fortune has been slowly reduced to nearly nothing after generations of waste and gambling. Watson’s telling of the narrative starts when a young woman, Helen Stoner, pays them a visit one morning, in desperate need of their help.
Such interpretations provide roots for different readings of the snake and the other Indian elements that find a more positive or powerful view of both colonized cultures and the feminine in the story.“The Adventure of the Speckled Band” begins with Watson recounting how, of the nearly seventy cases that he and Sherlock Holmes have embarked upon together as a detective duo, the one that he is about to narrate is among the most unusual of them. This emphasis has inspired interpretations that concentrate on the story’s imperial allusions and challenge the reading of the snake as a symbol of “destructive male sexuality” (Jann 121). Roylott’s relationship with his stepdaughters on financial rather than physical victimization.
“The Speckled Band” creates tension by portraying potentially inappropriate sexuality, but it places the emphasis of Dr. This conclusion, based on the gothic elements, is supported by the phallic image of the snake that crawls nightly into the victims’ room through a small air shaft. The gothic elements also introduce the potential of submerged incestuous desire between the powerful but insane stepfather and his innocent, victimized stepdaughters. These elements emphasize the supernatural appearance of the story’s events, making Holmes’s rational solution to the crime more surprising in comparison. The gothic reveals itself through exaggeratedly virtuous and demonic character types and through a decayed, half-empty house. “The Speckled Band” is of interest for a number of reasons, including its gothic elements, potentially sexual imagery, colonial connections, and incidental discussion of class and profession.
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