Auguste Comte

Our first assigned reading was Poe’s detective story, The Murders in Rue Morgue. In the story, the unconventional detective Dupin and the unnamed narrator solve the murder with the assistance of the police, their own private investigating, and Dupin’s intellect. When we watched The Study in Pink, similarities could be drawn between Poe’s detective, Dupin, and Doyle’s detective, Sherlock Holmes. For example, Sherlock is an unconventional detective. He also does his own private investigating and…

Reliability of the Narrator’s Account in Poe’s ‘The Tale-tell Heart’ ‘The Tell-tale Heart’ is a short story written by the famous writer, Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1843 and was revised to its present form in 1845 (Seghir, H.M., Djelloul, B., & Noureddine, B., 2013). The tell-tale Heart is a story of a murder, told by the murderer, himself. It tells about an old man who is seemingly under the care of a young person. The relationship of the characters in the story was not…

In the story “The Dying Detective,” Sherlock Holmes utilized his intelligence to obtain the truth about a crime committed by Mr. Culverton Smith. The whodunit was written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes planned to frame Mr. Culverton Smith. In order for him to do so, Sherlock Holmes acted as if he had a life threatening disease; he feigned his death. Mr. Culverton had given Sherlock Holmes the box that contained deadly poison. Sherlock Holmes did not tell anyone he was faking because he…

Double sidedness is human nature. Therefore, novels of a variety of genres cover the subject of double sidedness. What is important is that the detective genre also covers this subject. As an example, this essay will analyze two detective series. The first is the well-known Sherlock Holmes and the other is Gojeonbu(A classic club) which centers around a club that studies classics. More precisely, two characters of each series will be analyzed in terms of the double sidedness concept. Detective…

You are a literary scholar and expert on the mystery genre. You have been asked to deliver a guest lecture for a college course in criminal justice; specifically, you must discuss the qualities of a good detective. Write a lecture that compares two popular detectives, one of whom must be Sherlock Holmes. The other detective can be from another work of literature, a film, or a television series. Evaluate the fictional detectives’ positive and negative qualities, their strategies, and their…

Furthermore, the hard-boiled fiction has its own subcategory, the noir novel which developed in the early 1940s. The noir is different from its initiator in a several ways. First of all the protagonist is no longer the detective. The main character is the suspect or the victim, the one who is connected with the crime not the one who is involved from the outside. What is more, the noir novel stresses the physical relationships and emphasizes the disruptive features of the protagonist (Tuttle).…

Doyle vs. King Ever since the start of the Sherlock Holmes era in the late 1800’s there has been a bountiful amount of remakes of the classic story. Anything from movies, television shows and literary works— it has all been done. Within the modified versions, anything can be changed, most certainly you can tell when you are interacting with a true Arthur Conan Doyle story. In this particular essay I will be comparing and contrasting The Doctor’s Case and The Final Problem. The Doctor’s Case by…

In regards to crime and the investigation, Edgar Allan Poe's, Auguste Dupin, as well as Conan Doyle's, Sherlock Holmes, remains the sleuths of their time. Dupin and Holmes, the two most popular investigators in the account of the genre, detective fiction. Detective Fiction is essentially a genre dealing with a crime and the seeking of justice (Kia Isaacson, Lecture Two). Being a great detective involves mental agility, along with creative thought using measurable observations to create a…

Introduction: Piet Mondrian is very famous artist from the 20th century, he was born in the Netherlands on March 7, 1872. Mondrian had some great influences at a very young age to introduce him to the world of art, his father and his uncle Fritz Mondrian. One of Mondrian favorites spot to draw was along the Gein River when he was growing up. Before he became famous for his works of art he was a teacher in primary education and while he was in his teaching years he practiced his painting,…

"Thus, Holmes is a drug-using manic-depressive with a superiority complex and a long list of other symptoms that can be cataloged as mental illnesses" (Faktorovich, 183). For the 19th century detective genre, Sherlock Holmes was the ideal of a flawed protagonist – imperfect in character but exceptional in his capacity for detective work. Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes is "a new and unique hero figure” (Faktorovich, 175 and an eccentric in the truest sense of the word. Rather than detracting from…