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Rip Van WinkleThe works of Iriving and Poe have influenced the American character through the dark side of Romanticism. Yes, Dark Romanticism is a thing. Now, before you go all blah on me, Romanticism is pretty...
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The Purloined LetterPoe can actually set the standard of success for detective stories, considering that he wrote the prototype to all literature works of this genre, in the first place. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders...
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To Kill a MockingbirdCertainly, Poe explores the darker side of human nature and the psychology of evil with great complexity and depth. But, while To Kill a Mockingbird has its merit, the extent to which Harper Lee...
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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 Purloined LetterIn "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allen Poe, do the differences in his detection make for a more..."The Purloined Letter" is not as intriguing as Poe's other detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." The problem with the story about the stolen letter is that it requires a great deal of...
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The Purloined Letter“The Purloined Letter” is Dupin’s story, not the Prefect’s. Poe uses the Prefect only to introduce the problem, explain the elaborate attempts to solve it and the large reward offered for...
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The Purloined LetterI can give you a general idea of what the plot diagram would look like. If you need more specific details, use the story to fill them in. eNotes also provides a thorough summary of the story. The...
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The Purloined LetterIt is clear that Poe is none to complimentary regarding Monsieur G. of the French Police. From the start there are somewhat dismissive remarks made about his limitations. For example, consider how...
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The Purloined LetterYou have asked a question about one of the earliest detective stories, upon which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based his famous detective Sherlock Holmes. One of the key ingredients in this genre is the...
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The Purloined LetterA single effect is a paradigm that Edgar Allan Poe created signifying that a story must produce one specific and consistent effect in the reader. This is what would make a plot successful, or...
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The Purloined LetterConsidering that it was Poe's objective to "entertain" his reader, but most importantly, to work toward a preconceived "effect," and then use words and symbols and language to help the reader reach...
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The Purloined LetterBy plot map, I assume you mean a plot sequence chart. I’m not sure that e-notes yet has the capabilities of using graphics in questions. Your chart, however, should have: exposition which are...
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The Purloined LetterIn Poe's classic detective story "The Purloined Letter," an unnamed narrator is used mainly as a plot device to move the story along and to serve as a foil for Dupin and as proxy (stand in) for the...
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The Purloined LetterEdgar Allen Poe's "The Purloined Letter" uses a first person narrator who, by definition, participates in the story and only knows his own motives, thoughts, perceptions, feelings, and emotions:...
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The Purloined LetterI would say that there are two resolutions to Poe's detective story. The first is that (in Poe's opinion) imagination and feeling are far more valuable characteristics to possess than are logic and...
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The Purloined LetterDupin also deploys his sleuthing skills in Poe's short story "The Murders of the Rue Morgue." By a simple process of observation and deduction, he solves the unsolvable. Furthermore, this tale is...
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The Purloined Letterdid u ever find the answer cause i need it to..
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The Purloined LetterDupin is not telling Prefect G- that the answer to a problem is always obvious. What he is saying is that people often make problems more complicated than they actually are. The truth is often very...
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The Purloined LetterPoe answers the question regarding the problem, or conflict, in the epigraph he attributes to Seneca: Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. An English translation would be: Nothing is more...
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The Purloined LetterYour question is difficult to try to answer, though it is challenging. Edgar Allan Poe was a great genius, not unlike his character C. Auguste Dupin. Poe undoubtedly saw many truths which ordinary...
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The Purloined LetterThe narrator of Poe's story asks the same question: “But what purpose had you,” I asked, “in replacing the letter by a facsimile? Would it not have been better, at the first visit, to have...
