Summary Of Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders In The Rue Morgin

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe is a unique mystery story with a twist. The un-named narrator, and Dupin, the detective, read of these mysterious murders

The life of Edgar Allan Poe 's was short and mysterious - just like the lives of the heroes of his stories. And like his fictional heroes, Poe was passionate about painful, strange, gloomy existence of the human soul. The contradictory and unstable, inclined to extravagant whims and binges, he seemed to have decided to match the romantic stereotype of the suffering hero, taken prisoner of self-destruction.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most recognized and praised fiction writers in world literature. Not only does he masterfully create the atmosphere of suspense and danger in his short stories, he also builds up a sophisticated blend of horror and elegant irony that haunts the reader and reveals the complexity of Poe’s literary talent. “The Cask of Amontillado” is a perfect example of such combination. In this twisted short story of revenge, Poe puts an emphasis on the ironic tone in order to highlight the relationship between Montresor and his victim Fortunato and reveal the evil nature of Montresor’s desire for cruel vengeance.

In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, a crucial statement is declared about how he views the inner workings of men, as well as how men interact with women in society. The narrative is based around the horrific murder of two defenseless women, which seems to have been committed by a mystery “beast”. Poe demonstrates the primitive violent forces that exist within people, particularly men, which have the ability to escape in shocking ways, often against a woman. Poe uses violence as a negative, inhumane act, in order to reinforce the innate brutal impulses that are just under the surface of all male beings.

The law enforcers are confused because they cannot identify how the criminal escaped. They declare the murders unsolvable; however, C. Auguste Dupin, a man who loves mysteries, steps into the scene to attempt to untangle the puzzle. While he is looking for clues to solve the mystery, the spectators and citizens provide insight into the story as well, setting the context and atmosphere that Poe wishes to narrate the story with. At last, after Dupin find clues that lead to a possible victim, including a fingerprint and a window that could be opened and closed from the outside, he deduces that the murderer was an orangutan. After the orangutan is convicted, the story slows down quickly, leading to the selling of the orangutan by the sailor who owned him and the increasing of the confidence that Dupin has in himself. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” is a strange short story because of its irregularity in characters. Not only does Poe make an orangutan the murderer in the story, he describes the peculiar attributes and characteristics that the policemen and the townspeople possess. Through the peculiar characters that he establishes in the short story, Poe gives an example of the American Dream. Dupin was a man who had fallen into poverty and destitution; however, by taking on the mystery and working diligently to solve a case that had been deemed as unsolvable, Dupin shows that redemption can be achieved through determination and confidence.

When you think about the first detective story ever written, Edgar Allen Poe probably doesn’t come to mind. He is most known for his melancholic and gruesome tales of stories such as a guilty man’s conscience giving him the impression of hearing the man he killed heart beating through the floorboards, or even a raven symbolizing the inevitable death we will all face. Despite these well-known contributions, his writings concerning the detective field have left an indisputable mark on pieces following his time.

Although Huck knows that it is wrong to deceive those who have been good to him, he also believes that the only way to escape his father’s physical abuse is to fake his own death. Huck has been living with the widow Douglas and Miss Watson, two Christian women took him when he had nowhere else to live. Although he was uncomfortable with their religious beliefs, he is grateful for everything they try to do for him. He tries to follow their rules and go to school. “I liked the old ways best,but I was getting so I liked the new ones too,a little bit.”(Twain,15). Hucks understands that the women are just trying to give him a better life and although he would rather live on his own, he does try to give them a chance. However, when he discovers his father’s footsteps in the snow, he knows his life is about to take a turn for the worse. His father is intent on stealing money that Huck was given as a reward. He locks Huck up in a cabin and severely beats him. Huck knows his father will never stop until he gets the money or kills his son so he devises a plan to fake his own death.“I took the ax and smashed in the door.I Bet it ad hacked it considerable a-doing it. I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the ax, and laid him down on the ground to bleed.”(Twain, 33) By making the cabin looked like someone broke in and spreading the pig’s blood, Huck knows most will think he was killed. While Huck understands that faking his own death is wrong and that those who

Edgar Allan Poe was a quite mysterious man who lived in the dark ages. What happened to be more mysterious about Poe was his death. Poe’s death is unknown, even though we have many theories and possible outcomes about his death we do not know exactly what happened. Some say Poe died from rabies and others say he died from alcohol. Despite the fact that there is a no final answer on Poe’s death, I think he may have died from alcohol.

Detective stories that have been published over the years all contain dramatic elements that the reader has come to expect. These conventions that Aydelotte discussed in The Dectective Story as a Historical Source are especially ever present in Edgar Allen Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue and they shed light on the concerns of the people of the time.

Dupin steps in to play the role of the Police, using logical reasoning to search the crime scene, and the detective by using creative thinking to come to a conclusion.  It is evident that the Police are inconsistent when they are not detailed in their search which highlights Dupin’s

He adopts he deductive reasoning technique it is in a different way that the Sherlock Holmes. I think that Dupin uses the technique in a bit more of a locked out way than Holmes. It almost seems as if he keeps everyone around him in the dark about what he is thinking. For example in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” the narrator describes Dupin saying, “Dupin went on, very much as if in a soliloquy. I have already spoken of his abstract manner at such times. His discourse was addressed to myself; but his voice, although by no means loud, had that intonation which is commonly employed in speaking to someone at a great distance. His eyes, vacant in expression, regarded only the wall” (Levine 11). This section illustrates my previous comments about him being an individual who thinks out loud to himself and locks out

This is one of the methods Dupin uses to solve the case. He knows to solve the case he must get inside the head of the fellon, by doing this he can think on the same wavelength and see things the way the culprit does. In the case of the ‘Purloined Letter’ Dupin manages to get into the head of the thief and solve the case, unlike G----,who searched excessively for the letter but he could not find it. This is because it was hidden in such an obvious place that no one thought to look for it, it was hidden in plain sight. This is similar to the technique and utilisation of the card game in ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’. It is used in order to try establish his opponents hand to figure out the correct way to play his cards, by examiing facial feature and body language. This is noted when it

Monsieur Dupin solves the mystery and to do so, must take on an entirely new

What makes a short story great? Great characters? A great plot? Whatever it is, it does not have as much time to develop as a novel does. However, in limited space, author Edgar Allan Poe creates a brilliant, suspenseful, and brain wracking story. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" begins by comparing the analytical mind to the game of chess. Eventually, Poe ties in the occurrences of a bizarre incident with a flashback to 18--. Through analyzing the scene and using clues and witnesses' testimonies, a character of great analytical power solves a murder mystery that no one else can even remotely get a grasp on. The story may sound ordinary at first, but upon the completion of the novel, a doubtful reader can change his mind. Edgar Allan Poe's

“If you are good at something don’t do it for free”-Heath Ledger. In Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Purloined Letter”, the detective instead of helping the police he finds the purloined (lost) letter; Dupin finds the letter from D’s, the minister, hotel room. To get the letter, Dupin deceives D and turns the letter in to the police to get the reward. “The Purloined Letter” revolves around the themes of logic versus imagination and deception, which includes omission, equivocation and falsification.