The Murders in the Rue Morgue

started writing poetry and short stories that were thrilling and reflected his own tragedy life. He wrote short stories for many different genres and the most successful one was the Detective Genre. Edgar Allan Poe's detective story, " The Murders in the Rue Morgue", written in 1841, is the beginning of the detective genre. The detective genre was started…

first story i'm comparing is The adventure of the speckled band to a story called The Murders Of In Rue Morgue. These stories are different and similar in many ways. The first thing that makes the stories similar is the murders. However, the murders occur differently. In The adventure of the speckled band Helen and Roylott were bitten by a snake and were killed. In The Murders Of The rue morgue the murders all happened in a door which is pretty strange. the corpse of the mother was horribly…

or stories tend to focus on murder or at the least theft. This can be seen in Poe’s stories, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter. The first story is the one that really made Poe recognized as the founder of crime fiction, while the second one is very admirable in its use of deduction and this very unusual approach of unveiling the guilty before reconstituting the circumstances of the crime. In The Murders in The Rue Morgue, the violence of the murders committed and the…

a description of his character in ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, and by a description of his character’s actions in ‘The Purloined Letter’ by the narrator, the detective’s partner, who in this case remains nameless. Immediately after that we are made aware that a crime has been committed. To solve the crime one must have the ability to put oneself in the criminal’s mind and understand things from their perspective. In the instance of both ‘The Rue Morgue’ and ‘The Purloined Letter’ we are…

that can be drawn between Poe’s characters’ reactions to death and people’s real life reactions. Much like people will solve a death in real life--if the cause of the death is unknown--Dupin solved the murders because nobody knew who had killed the two women. He decided to go about solving the murders because of the lacking investigation carried out by the police. In his words, “We must not judge of the means by this shell of an examination.” Dupin, like people in the real world, reacted to a…

In the short story, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allen Poe, the narrator is depicted in a far more orthodox manner for the detective genre than the emotional, female narrator in Wilkie Collins’s “The Diary of Anne Rodway”. The unnamed narrator from Poe’s story lays out his mystery in a very factual manner for the reader to interpret. He describes the brutal scene of Madame L’Espanaye and her daughter’s murders by describing the physical evidence and witness testimony from the crime.…

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York City. It was during these years that he established himself as a poet, a short story writer, and an editor. He published some of his best-known stories and poems, including “The Fall of the House of Usher," “The Tell-Tale Heart," “The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and “The Raven.” After Virginia’s death from tuberculosis in 1847, Poe’s lifelong struggle with depression and alcoholism worsened. He returned briefly to Richmond in 1849 and then set out for an editing job in Philadelphia. For…

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Down” is his name. Slinkton sounds like a sinister name because ‘slink’ refers to a stealthy movement and can be associated with a cunning and mistrusting figure. Other than this, we are given no other clues that he is the villain responsible for the murder of his niece, Miss Niner. It’s not until near the end of story does Dickens reveal to his reader that Mr. Slinkton is the villain and is not only confronted but also brought to justice by Mr. Meltham, disguised as Mr. Beckwith, and Mr.…