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Edgar Allen Poe

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T] 0 L 0 L F L y L 4 L L 6 Client s Name Date Professor s Name Course Poe s Narrative The writings of Edgar Allan Poe often times b and delve into the mysteries and horrors of the human imagination and ego . The purpose of this is to extrapolate these human characteristics and match them with the occult fetishes of Poe s

own writing style . The analysis of this will explore three stories , The Murders in the Rue Morgue , The Purloined Letter , and The Gold Bug . The thesis of the will be how Poe uses deduction from extraordinary circumstances in his story to gain access to the mundane truth . It is through this deduction that the narration plays a major part in the progression of the plot and it is through this narrative technique of Poe s that the stories are so fascinating In Poe s story The Murders in the Rue Morgue , the reader is introduced to a detective story . C . Auguste Dupin is the protagonist of the story exploring the double murder of Madame L 'Espanaye and her daughter . The grotesque features of the murder are very serious as the mother s head was nearly severed from her body from a cut , and the daughter was stuffed up a chimney . The way in which these two were killed is the intrigue of the story as well as the way in which the bizarre and pseudo-supernatural is presented by Poe . The story style of Poe as presented in this detective story gave the literary world their first read of the idea of the locked room . That is , a murder takes place in a seemingly locked room in which a murderer could not possible have gotten out of to escape . Thus , the murderer in this story , at the beginning of the story at least has an aura of superstition , and a hidden truth to the murderer s identity . The reader , and indeed the characters in the story do not know if the murder is a ghost , a celestial being , or something otherworldly . In Poe s writing style , at least in these detective stories , the use of common sense is found , as Poe writes The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious , the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis (Poe . Therefore , although the locked room scenario seems to be a daunting task to oversee , the detective and the narrator rise to the challenge and find the simple truth (as each of these stories the truth is a simple The twist of the story occurs when the detective and the narrator place an ad in the after discovering a non-human hair at the crime scene , asking if anyone has...

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