Guilt In The Hound Of The Baskervilles

With the growing popularity of the evolutionary theory, the fin-de-siècle literature strived to accommodate the spiritual and paranormal within the domain of science and reason. At the same time, the Victorian era was marked by the rising awareness of the foreign influence and its consequences. In The Hound of the Baskervilles Conan Doyle explores both subjects to depict guilt as a force that stems from within and is spurred from without.
As far as the family history goes, the Baskervilles are an old and cursed line haunted by the sins of their ancestor in form of a hellish beast. However, Holmes rejects the metaphysical explanation and searches for a human being to blame. He solves the crime by tracing the physical similarities between the