Sherlock Holmes and Auguste Dupin- Good noses and their companions

private investigator Holmes and Auguste Dupin-
Good noses and their companions

1. Introduction

In 1841 Edgar Allan Poe published his tale() of detection (Lesser 1900) Murders in the repent Morgue with which he ushered in a cutting era of detective stories (cf. Kayman 2003:41). The central character of the Murders in the Rue Morgue, Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, is the archetype of analytical detectives. He is the first in literary history who solves crimes using only the enormous potential of his nous (cf. ibid: 44). It would be too much to claim that without Edgar Allan Poe the crime genre would non have subsisted, but its progress would definitely not have been that rapid and many of its elements would probably have been of kind of a different nature.
But it was his successor who became the most noteworthy detective of all while: Arthur Conan Doyles Sherlock Holmes. Holmes stories were not highly regarded by Doyle, but became his most prominent act as; Holmes name has even become a synonym for a detective who unravels app arently insolvable mysteries. Sherlock Holmes got so famous that he even eclipsed his creator (cf. Knight 1980:68).
There are so many similarities between Dupin and Holmes that some critics accuse Doyle of thievery of Poes ideas; some even call him a freebooter (Lesser 1900).



This seems to be a reasonable suspicion when one considers that Poe′s masterful detective, M. Dupin, had from boyhood been one of (Doyles) heroes (Doyle 1944,47). And, indeed, the procedural method of the two detectives seems to be similar at first glance. Especially in the Sherlock Holmes adventure the Speckled Band, many elements can be piece which obviously echo plot details and character traits of the Murders in the Rue Morgue.
I chose to write about those detective stories because they mesmerised me. Even while I was reading them for the third time with the awareness of who the murder was and how the clues were about to be solved, they both remained nail-biting and...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



If you want to get a full essay, wisit our page: write my essay .