Mr Stapleton Quotes

When people are pressured, they become abusive, courageous, or dishonest. As they find Mrs. Stapleton tied up by Mr. Stapleton, she says, “It is my mind and soul that he [Mr. Stapleton] has tortured and defiled. I now know… I have been his dupe and his tool,” (223). Mr. Stapleton was pressured by money constraints, as he was a schoolmaster, which led him to abuse and use her to gain the Baskerville estate. After Holmes finds Watson, they hear “a prolonged yell of horror and anguish,” which “burst out of the silence of the moor,” so Holmes “sprung to his feet…. He had started running swiftly over the moor,” (185–186). Holmes knew there was a murderer, but still courageously ran towards the screams to possibly save the victim and catch the killer.

During the battle of the roundhouse, Davie notices “there was Alan, standing as before; only now his sword was running blood to the hilt… he seemed to be invincible,” (81). Alan was pressured by the odds and the many people trying to kill him to run, but he kept bravely fighting. After the Red Fox was killed, “I [Davie] began to scramble up the hill, crying out ‘The murderer!’” (146). Davie knew it was dangerous, but still selflessly risked his life to run towards the killer of Colin. After Davie realizes his uncle is gone and asks Hoseason where he went, Hoseason replies “Ay, that’s the point,” (50). Uncle Ebenezer greedily valued the money he’d save by not needing to deal with Davie over Davie’s safety, and arranged him to be kidnapped. Pressured people with good friends choose the right path, while lonely people are much more likely to choose

After Shelob catches Sam and Frodo, Gollum says to himself, “we’ve got him, yes, the nasty hobbit. We takes this one. She’ll get the other. O yes, Shelob will get him, not Sméagol,” (903). Gollum was willing to have his friend, Frodo, killed so he could get to the Ring, which kept tempting him. When Aragorn and the others find Boromir, he confesses, “I tried to take the Ring from Frodo….the orcs have taken them,” (512). Boromir, like Gollum, was tempted by the Ring, and he also, again like Gollum, gave in to the pressure by trying to steal the Ring. After Sam and Frodo are attacked by Shelob, “he [Sam] was aware dimly of Frodo’s face, and stubbornly he fought to master himself and to drag himself out of the swoon that was upon him,” (907). Sam, invigorated by seeing his master whom he would die for in trouble, fights beyond his known limits to possibly save Frodo. Even though he was being attacked by an enormous spider, he did not pity himself, but instead fought harder for the sake of others. Pressured people easily choose the wrong