Instead, it implies that his psychological make-up is such that he has subversive impulses. By allowing himself to experience the emotional current of another, recognizing and understanding this person completely, Dupin is also recognizing these qualities within himself. The experience, in this case, does not mean that the detective has engaged in illicit activity. Empathy of the variety used by Dupin comes from an understanding born of personal experience. “The Purloined Letter” presents a compelling case for the duality of the human soul. I would like to focus on what I consider to be the perfect opener to the season of self-reflection, Poe’s “The Purloined Letter.”
I can think of no better representative of this somewhat macabre period of personal death and rebirth, than master of morbid himself, Edgar Allan Poe. We will explore the landscapes of our own inner selves, shedding and releasing those things which no longer serve us in order to make space for new growth.
The time for reflection and consideration has come. ThoughtsĪs we move into spooky season, with the cold hands of fall brushing the backs of our necks, our thoughts turn inwards. So successful is this line of reasoning, that a deep empathy is unveiled between criminal and detective, an empathy which reveals not only the location of a letter, but also exposes the foundations of that which makes up C. By these means he is able to predict his opponent’s actions. Dupin’s success was achieved in immersing himself in the psychosis of the criminal in order to better understand him. What is important is the extraordinary means by which Dupin was able to solve the mystery: the key being the use of a singular kind of logic. The actual recovery takes up only a little of the story. After hearing the story of the theft, and the methods applied to find it, Dupin makes short work of recovering the letter himself. The detective is presented with a case that has otherwise stumped the Parisian police, the theft of an incendiary letter. The third in Poe’s series of detective stories, “The Purloined Letter” follows the work of amateur detective C.
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