Abstract
This paper focuses on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Roget", which are among the first modern detective mystery stories. The paper shows how Poe introduced the idea of a fictional detective investigating a real-life unsolved murder and compares the beginnings of both stories. The paper highlights Poe's literary devices in both works, which include the depiction of police as incompetent and self-serving, his use of newspapers to narrate the story, and his use of the gothic genre. The suggestion is made that some of these similarities between the two works may be the result of being written so close together, since "The Purloined Letter", which was written several years afterwards, is a very different detective story.

From the Paper
"Mystery or detective stories form an increasingly popular genre: from novels about pathologists, private eyes and police detectives, to eccentrics like Nero Wolfe; and from the hard-boiled, and unwilling detective Easy Rawlins to the old-fashioned English settings of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, there is a story and a genre to satisfy anyway. For over a hundred and fifty years, the detective fiction has kept generations of readers entertained, and the person credited with introducing the detective to modern fiction is Edgar Allen Poe."

Tags:murders, police, crime, gothic, genre

Abstract
This paper examines the similarities and differences in Camus'
"The Stranger" and Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", with specific reference to the murder that takes place in each book. Camus' murder is an examination of existentialism and an expression of the futility of believing that there is meaning in any act. Dostoevsky's murder is an expression of the senselessness of the ruling school of thought in the 19th century Russia. While each novel centers on a murder, they differ entirely as to the point and reason for each.

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This paper explains that the father of the detective fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, provided the detective story model for nineteenth-century British novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of one of the world's most famous detective Sherlock Holmes. The author reviews Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Mystery of Marie Roget" and "The Purloined Letter" to illustrate the ways in which amateur sleuth Auguste Dupin was the pattern upon which Doyle created Holmes. The paper uses textual analysis and historical evidence to reveal that Doyle borrowed from Poe the logical method, the details of personal habits and personality and the narrator who purports to present the exploits of his brainy, withdrawn friend to the public.

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"Holmes is also influenced by Dupin and his peculiar attachment to a loyal companion who serves to document the successes of his brilliant mentor. Like Dupin's associate, Watson plays the part of the straight man in Doyle's tale. He essentially an observer whose sole purpose is to offer fumbling assistance to the detective, typically by way of inaccurate observations, suppositions, and conclusions that Holmes then corrects. It becomes very obvious that Doyle patterned the ineffectual and lovable Watson, directly after Dupin's friend."

Tags:genre model eccentric method, fumbling police

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This paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe led a bizarre and tormented life that undoubtedly influenced his writings, which revealed dark aspects of his nature. His writings, specifically "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" are examined in this paper as examples of his form of writing. The writer shows how many scholars make connections between Poe and psychoanalysis in these two ways: how his work reveals himself, and how his work says something about the workings of the mind of the murderer. Included are specific examples from the two aforementioned stories that illustrate these points.

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"Edgar Allan Poe was without a doubt a man who lead an unusual life filled with horror. The fact that his writings were often also filled with horror and indeed at the very least, a dark imagination, has lead many scholars and psychoanalysts to ruminate at the connection between Poe's real life and his fictional writings. For example, it was said that Poe had a fear of being buried alive and so this scenario reared its ugly head many times throughout his literature, and many scholars have attempted to compare Poe to his invented characters (A few). These kinds of connections are what psychoanalysts would be interested in, for psychoanalysis is defined as the theory that abnormal mental functioning and psychopathology originate in cause from unconscious psychological forces (Comer, 15). The "Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" are two short stories of Poe's which illustrate some of the common musings over the connection between Poe and psychoanalysis."

Tags:murderer, mind, narrator

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This paper suggests that madness and its consequences is a major theme found in many of Edgar Allan Poe's stories. It also suggests that this theme is related to man's fascination with death, and, in a larger sense, with the broader theme of man's inhumanity to man. Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" is used throughout the paper to demonstrate these themes . The paper also discusses the role of the narrator in Poe's works and how the reader is supposed to respond to the narrator.

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"In the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator shows his inhumanity to the old man by murdering him. However, the old man is also depicted as taking an inhuman delight in tormenting the younger man over the years. When the young man hears the beating heart after the murder, that heart is a reminder to him that he has taken a life, that he has treated the old man not as a human being but as an obstacle to be removed. The narrator tells his own story and allows the reader into his mind, which only adds to the uncertainty as to whether the heart is a real sound or an imagined one. The policemen do not hear it, of course, while the young man is tormented by it, much as he tormented the old man in killing him."

Tags:mad, suffer, tormenting, beating, heart, insane, murderer, old, young, man, eye

Abstract
The paper discusses Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Notes from the Underground" and his concern that if science is used as the only tool to discover meaning and lay blame, then human emotion and free will will no longer exist. The paper explains how Dostoevsky worries about the loss of responsibility for one's actions, which would eventually allows people to legitimately act with cruelty. The paper also shows how his words foreshadow the times that would come, when the German "scientific" culture would convince millions to take the lives of innocents in WWII.

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"Dostoevsky, lived in a time when science and new ideas were coveted all over the world, but when his homeland Russia oppressed it with zeal. Bureaucracy and administration censored new findings and ideas with a vengeance so great even great literary minds such as Dostoevsky would spend some time in exile in Siberia as a result of "subversive" wittings and political affiliations. Though Dostoevsky was initially sentenced to death, with several of his affiliation members, his sentence was commuted to four years of exile in Siberia, only after he and his fellow liberals were standing outside for some time awaiting execution. (Dostoevsky vii)"

Tags:responsibility, nature, ethics, cruelty

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This paper reviews and discusses the short story, 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allen Poe. According to the paper, Poe is one of the masters of horror fiction and his story, 'The Black Cat', is intended both to shock as well as educate. According to the paper, the central theme of this story is that the real nature of true horror and terror does not necessarily exist outside of ourselves or in the dark night, but can exist within the human heart.

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"Throughout the story there is a comparison between two aspects of human nature. These two aspects however are seen to exist within the same human being. On the one hand we see that the main character is originally a good and kind man but that his nature changes radically for the worse. While alcohol is suggested as the catalyst for this change, the story also makes it clear that the transformation of the man for good to bad is a result of something more than just drinking. "

Tags:debauchery, decadence, human, nature, violence, pets, perverted, horror, beast

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This paper compares and contrasts Edgar Allan Poe's short stories, "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado". The paper focuses on the compelling nature of the Gothic horror tales and includes a brief biography of Poe's life.

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"Edgar Allan Poe was born to David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe. Poe was orphaned at the age of three and was taken into the home of John Allan, a prosperous merchant in Richmond, Virginia, and rebaptized as Edgar Allan Poe. An uneventful childhood included five years of schooling in England and only a year of study at the University of Virginia where he was forced..."

Tags:Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, Gothic, Horrow

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This paper examines the personal and historical context of Edgar Allan Poe's work. It focuses in on Poe's handling of human nature in three stories: "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Tale-Tell Heart," and "The Black Cat," and the poem, "The Raven."

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"Edgar Allan Poe is known as the writer of ghost stories .And while it's certainly true that many of his tales have the requisite elements of ghost stories, ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night, they are much more than simply attempt to .."

Tags:poe, civil war, romanticism, raven

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This paper explains that light and darkness are key focal points in learning the source and origins of the murders in these two short stories. The author points out that, by taking a logical and more scientific approach to diminishing superstition and hearsay, both of these authors offer an intelligible solution to the crimes they confronted in the 19th century. The paper relates that both Doyle and Poe use the almost gothic landscape of the English Moors to reflect the sinister evil of their plots.

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"This literary study examines the use of light and darkness that Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use to solve various crimes in their short stories. By comparing the use of light and darkness within "The Murders at the Rue Morgue" by Poe and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Doyle, one can understand how logic and pseudo-science deduce the perpetrators of these crimes. In the short story "The Hound of the Baskervilles" we can learn how darkness and light are effective ways for the main perpetrator of the murders is revealed. Doyle, like Poe, uses the almost gothic landscape of the English Moors to reflect the sinister evil that the Hound presents in this tale, but ultimately the darkness is merely a cloak for a more logical explanation to the murders."

Tags:poe, holmes, crime