The Murders in the Rue Morgue

According to Michel Foucault in his book Discipline and Punish, the Panopticon is a prison designed to establish power and control of one individual over the prisoners through observation. This observation is achieved through the prison’s annular structure, with the prisoners in confined cells facing the center, and the supervisor in a central tower (Foucault 200). The ring-like structure and the central tower allow the supervisor to see all inmates while simultaneously prohibiting them from…

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…

short stories, popular movies and even real situations that end up being dangerous because of a dark secret. A story compared to the Lottery 's continuous theme of a dark, untold secret that can have repercussions till the end is, “The Murders in Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe. This short story by Poe is most known for is mystery that…

ability to comprehend that there is a solution, the just have not yet found it. Although Dupin does not have a line like this he can still understand that there is an answer that has not yet been uncovered. The reader can see this in The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Dupin does state on two occasions “A mystery it is, yes. But there must be an answer.” (Poe 46, 48), this line along with Holmes’ line both show an understanding of logic an understanding of how things…

the “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe. The protagonists had clear sense of what was important in their life. There are standards of behavior that detectives go by in order to succeed.…

and objectivity. With a high ego, Dupin and Holmes never doubt themselves, for mistakes are not made. Using unbiased and non-discriminatory perspectives, the detectives behold a skill necessary to solve a mystery. In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murder At Rue Morgue" Dupin’s narrator speaks about Dupin, and how his mind works through cases as it does through the checkers. Often others share a reciprocal view with chess, relying on focus, but in the game of checkers…

In the short story,”Usher II,” it helps readers visualize the setting by using allusion from other pieces of literature so that they could connect it to the story. In the story, Mr, Stendahls biggest challenge is to stop the people who are burning everyone's books. As he is talking to Mr. Bigelow about how important the books are for people, Stendahl states, “As of this day beware. The House of Usher is open for business.” (Bradbury 3). This is an example of allusion because he is talking about…

The fear of dying as been around forever the thought scares and provokes fear. Many readers are chilled by Poe with his gothic horror. The three stories I read showed gothic horror and related to death. Fear is shown in his stories like if you were really there to experience it yourself. The Red Death was chosen because it peaked my interest on how Poe would show a world affected by a plague. In the story Poe really out did himself. The Red Death showed that no matter how fancy the house,…

still reading. The accomplishments he achieved were being the most famous person creating the genre of of horror. He wrote around 70 poems and many were famous, he wrote the first modern detective story and is shown in the 3 books, the murders in the Rue morgue, the purloined letter, and the mystery of Marie Roget. He is also known as the father of detective fiction. He wrote the Raven and the tell tale heart.I think this person is an historic figure because he died 175 years ago and people…

Arguments continue today about whether George R.R Martin was correct when he said "Different roads can lead to the same castle" in the Game of Thrones. In the movie, when he said this quote, there was invading armies that were on the outskirts of the city wall and Martin was spreading the army to different roads that lead to the same castle. However, this has raised lots of controversy about wherher or not Marin's quote is applicable in real life as well. Martin's quote can be germane in real…