Double Assassinat dans la rue Morgue (French Edition)

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He decides to offer his assistance to "G—", the prefect of police.


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Because none of the witnesses can agree on the language the murderer spoke, Dupin concludes they were not hearing a human voice at all. He and the narrator examine the house thoroughly; the following day, Dupin dismisses the idea of both Le Bon's guilt and a robbery motive, citing the fact that the gold was not taken from the room. He also points out that the murderer would have had to have superhuman strength to force the daughter's body up the chimney. He formulates a method by which the murderer could have entered the room and killed both women, involving an agile climb up a lightning rod and a leap to a set of open window shutters.

Showing an unusual tuft of hair he recovered from the scene, and demonstrating the impossibility of the daughter being strangled by a human hand, Dupin concludes that an "Ourang-Outang" orangutan killed the women. He has placed an advertisement in the local newspaper asking if anyone has lost such an animal, and a sailor soon arrives looking for it.

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The sailor offers to pay a reward, but Dupin is interested only in learning the circumstances behind the two murders. The sailor explains that he captured the orangutan while in Borneo and brought it back to Paris, but had trouble keeping it under control. When he saw the orangutan attempting to shave its face with his straight razor, imitating his morning grooming, it fled into the streets and reached the Rue Morgue, where it climbed up and into the house.

The orangutan seized the mother by the hair and was waving the razor, imitating a barber; when she screamed in fear, it flew into a rage, ripped her hair out, slashed her throat, and strangled the daughter.

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The sailor climbed up the lightning rod in an attempt to catch the animal, and the two voices heard by witnesses belonged to it and to him. Fearing punishment by its master, the orangutan threw the mother's body out the window and stuffed the daughter into the chimney before fleeing.

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The sailor sells the orangutan, Le Bon is released from custody, and the prefect of police mentions that people should mind their own business once Dupin tells him the story. Dupin comments to the narrator that G— is " somewhat too cunning to be profound", but admires his ability " de nier ce qui est, et d'expliquer ce qui n'est pas " a quote from Julie, or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: In a letter to friend Dr. Joseph Snodgrass, Poe said of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "its theme was the exercise of ingenuity in detecting a murderer.

He also has a desire for truth and to prove a falsely accused man innocent. His interests are not financial and he even declines a monetary reward from the owner of the orangutan. Le Bon, the suspect who is arrested, as appearing guilty as a red herring , though Poe chose not to. Poe wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" at a time when crime was at the forefront in people's minds due to urban development. London had recently established its first professional police force and American cities were beginning to focus on scientific police work as newspapers reported murders and criminal trials.

The tale has an underlying metaphor for the battle of brains vs. Physical strength, depicted as the orangutan as well as its owner, stand for violence: The analyst's brainpower overcomes their violence. Poe defines Dupin's method, ratiocination , using the example of a card player: Dupin's method emphasizes the importance of reading and the written word. The newspaper accounts pique his curiosity; he learns about orangutans from a written account by "Cuvier" — likely Georges Cuvier , the French zoologist.

This method also engages the reader, who follows along by reading the clues himself. When Dupin asks the sailor for information about the murders, the sailor himself acts out a partial death: The genre is distinctive from a general mystery story in that the focus is on analysis. Poe also portrays the police in an unsympathetic manner as a sort of foil to the detective.

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Upon its release, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and its author were praised for the creation of a new profound novelty. These tales of ratiocination owe most of their popularity to being something in a new key. I do not mean to say that they are not ingenious — but people think them more ingenious than they are — on account of their method and air of method. In the "Murders in the Rue Morgue", for instance, where is the ingenuity in unraveling a web which you yourself Modern readers are occasionally put off by Poe's violation of an implicit narrative convention: The twist ending, however, is a sign of "bad faith" on Poe's part because readers would not reasonably include an orangutan on their list of potential murderers.

The word detective did not exist at the time Poe wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", [9] though there were other stories that featured similar problem-solving characters. Hoffmann , in which Mlle. Poe may also have been expanding on previous analytical works of his own including the essay on " Maelzel's Chess Player " and the comedic "Three Sundays in a Week". Murder victims in both stories, however, have their neck cut so badly that the head is almost entirely removed from the body. Feedback If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us. Would you like to report poor quality or formatting in this book?

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