Symbolism In The Hound Of The Baskervilles

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When any individual sins in this tremendous fashion, not one person who know of it can entirely erase it from their memory. More often than not, these wrongdoings are remembered longer than one would remember a good deed. In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Henry Baskerville and Watson are coming to a close on their journey to Baskerville Hall when a soldier crosses their path. He informs them of a criminal escapee, the mass murderer Selden (Doyle 77). The two never forget that Selden is near and that fact merely adds to the manor’s menacing atmosphere. The sinner themselves rarely can abolish their own sins from their mind. In the novel And Then There Were None, each person invited to Soldier Island has done something shocking. Those offenses