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Gender In The Adventures Of The Speckled Band

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Arthur Conan Doyle 's short story The Adventures of the Speckled Band introduces a seemingly straightforward and traditional depiction of its treatment of gender by having a female victim and a male villain. In other words, the woman in the story, Helen Stoner, is a relatively young and vulnerable person who is in a inferior position to the man in question. In addition, Dr. Roylott 's lack of character development creates a character who 's main characteristics are lust for violence and greed for money. By the end of the story the vulnerable woman is saved from Dr. Roylott. Furthermore, this general gender divide in the story is further emphasised by having Stoner 's sister to be the first victim of Dr. Roylott. Doyle 's descriptive

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