King Arthur American Doyle Analysis

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LAW & LANGUAGE LITERATURE REVIEW PROJECT SHERLOCK HOLMES Submitted to: Prof. Manav Kapoor Prof. Siddharth Chauhan Submitted by: Shweta Meena 1st semester, 1st year roll no. 79 NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad INTRODUCTION Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was born in a very prosperous Irish-Catholic family who was known for its work in Art. His schooling was done in England. He pursued a medical profession and during that time he met one of his professors, Dr. Joseph Bells who had brilliant observation, logic, deduction and diagnostic skills. This professor was the one who influenced Sir Doyle to develop and create an everlasting character …show more content…

Poetic Justice is an ideal form of justice in which the bad characters are punished by some twist caused by their own acts. Its basic idea is that what comes around goes around. In simple form its when a person sets up a trap for someone else but somehow gets caught up in his own trap. In this story Roylott trained a very poisonous snake to listen to him and uses the snake to kill Helen but he failed and in turn the snake attacked him only. Its interesting that he died in the same manner as he killed his stepdaughter. Clearly there is poetic justice as he died from a snake’s bite which was intended for someone else. Poetic Justice is not only for stories in fact it has bypassed the fictional realm. To common people it is also known as Karma. Poetic Justice happens everywhere and to everyone. Its good for literature as in the end audience usually wants to see the criminal punished. The theme in “The Adventure of Speckled Band” is that evil would always be punished either by the law or by its own fate. Royllot got killed because of his own snake whom he had trained to do such bad acts. In the end he was punished by his destiny, his fate and

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