There are quite a few plot elements in “The Murders of the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter. ” In both stories, the settings are the same; Paris. In the “The Murders of the Rue Morgue,” the conflict is that Dupin needs to find out who murdered the lady and her daughter. The climax is when Dupin is telling the narrator how he figured it out and suddenly the man, who Dupin was talking about, comes for his orangutan and after that, the mystery is solved. In “The Purloined Letter,” the conflict is that Chief G and Dupin need to find the purloined letter.
The climax is when Dupin tells G to write him a check of 50,000 francs and hands him the letter. These are some of the plot elements that are similar and different. In “The Purloined Letter” and “The Murders of the Rue Morgue” there are several literary elements. In “The Murders of the Rue Morgue,” there is foreshadowing, which is clues to what will happen later in the story. The example is the title, which tells one that there will be a murder. In “The Purloined Letter,” the foreshadowing is when Dupin says to G, “maybe the mystery is a little too simple, a little too self-evident. It suggests that Dupin will solve the mystery. In this story the simile is, “I made the outside of my letter look torn and dirty, just like the original”. In “The Murders of the Rue Morgue” the simile is, “Four of us dragged her body from the chimney with some difficulty, as it had been forced up there quite a distance. ” The irony of this story is that the orangutan was the murderer. In “The Purloined Letter,” the irony is how Minister D hid the letter. Edgar Allen Poe’s life really influenced his writing. Poe was born on January 19, 1809.
The Essay on Poe: Murders at the Rue Morgue
"Murders at the Rue Morgue" displays distaste for nationality, logic over emotion, and no focus on the self. Poe's story shows lack of patriotism, indifference to foreigners, and respect for authority. Patriotism is prevalent in many Romantic authors works. The most famous is a poem called Old Ironsides, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, poem is about a ship in the War of 1812. This poem created an outcry ...
His mother died from tuberculosis, and then his foster mother died the same way. After that, he married his 13 year old cousin Virginia Clemm who also died from tuberculosis. Poe had a very tragic life which is why his stories are about terror, madness, disease, and death. He wrote “The Murders of the Rue Morgue,” and later “The Purloined Letter. ” These stories became popular quickly because they were “something in a new key. ” Poe did not call these detective stories; he called them “tales of ratiocination. ” Poe died at the age of 40 on October 7, 1849.
His detective stories really influenced writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, and other writers to write detective stories. There are a lot of similarities and differences in “The Murders of the Rue Morgue” and “The Purloined Letter. ” Some similarities are that both of these stories are investigative stories. Another similarity is that they have the same detective for both stories, Auguste C. Dupin. One difference is that in one story someone gets murdered, but in the other one nobody does. Those are the similarities and differences. I learned that you have to be careful and pay attention to everything.
