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The Murders in the Rue MorgueThere are many characters in stories and novels who are so well drawn that we may tend to think of them as real people. Such characters include the great Sherlock Holmes, and more recently Holden...
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The Murders in the Rue MorguePoe gave "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" an unusual form. He begins the piece as an essay and then offers the story of the murders as an example of what he has discussed in his essay. The...
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The Murders in the Rue MorguePoe quotes a number of witnesses and excerpts from different newspaper articles. All of them are intended to show very little except that the two murdered women lived alone and kept to themselves....
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The Murders in the Rue MorgueBased on the information that's provided in the story, I don't think that we can justifiably state that the narrator is jealous of Dupin. We might, in the narrator's position, feel that way, as...
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The Murders in the Rue MorguePoe opens his story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" with the following paragraph. The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We...
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The Murders in the Rue MorgueDupin is different than ordinary people because of his ability to identify with the criminal mindset and solve crimes. He is able to see patterns and sequences that others cannot see. He is...
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The Murders in the Rue MorgueThis classic short story is narrated in the first person. Poe chooses to tell this tale through the mouth of a bystander, a friend of Auguste Dupin, who is therefore able to observe all the same...
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The Murders in the Rue MorgueIn 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', why does it begin with a lengthy comparison between chess and...The narrator begins the story as if he is writing an essay on the subject of what Poe often called ratiocination, which means something like logical analysis and solution of problems. Poe's purpose...
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The Murders in the Rue MorgueEdgar Allen Poe wrote Murders In the Rue Morgue in 1841. It is considered one of the first detective stories. His detective Dupin loves to solve puzzles. He is very analytical. Poe put some of...
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The Murders in the Rue MorgueI can't identify a character named Claire in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Can you tell me where the name occurs in the story? Is it in one of the newspaper accounts of the crime? I know of only...
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is the first American detective story. It is set on a fictional street in Paris. The story opens with an unnamed narrator discussing the analytic mind just before...
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The Murders in the Rue MorgueThe murderer in this chilling story, that actually turns out to be rather ridiculous by the end, is the ourang-outang that belongs to the sailor that appears in the apartment of Monsieur Dupin in...
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The Murders in the Rue MorgueThe murders were peculiar because of the grotesqueness of them. The older woman was found outside, head nearly severed completely off, and body horribly beaten. The younger woman was found...
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue"The police" during this period were considered a peace keeping force. They developed out of either voluntary militia in rural communities, dedicating to protecting life and property, or...
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The Murders in the Rue MorgueIt is a mystery and is often credited as one of the first detective stories.