THE PURLOINED LETTER

A critical analysis of “The Purloined Letter” Tales by Edgar Alan Poe

A critical analysis of “The Purloined Letter” Tales by Edgar Alan Poe

Introduction

The story begins somewhat unclear, because the police do too trust two men questions, the policeman tells of a letter of utmost importance that no one knows who wrote it and was stolen from a palace, only the person stole it was very obvious, and he realized that he was stealing was not able to stop the thief. Paris police are cunning, stealth has developed plans to be discovered, and however, when reviewing the bedroom of the person who stole retailers are reviewing each of the belongings of the alleged thief. Without giving favorable results, the police try to explain all the sites are reviewed and questions should also look for places, so they decide to do another review. Then he knows that one of the protagonists has the letter and gives it in return for a check. (Julian, 1983)

Then he explains how it was that the police failed to find the letter. Explaining that with just a gesture in the face of another person could think like her, also said that the cunning of the officers was in vain because it differed from the thoughts of the robber, and were only focused on what they did, and not like was that the thief stole the letter. The first error was that the police have created an image of poets and think that the minister could be a jerk, not because people are ready should always have success.

Edgar Allan Poe is one of America's most famous, and most misunderstood, men of letters. As this book shows, he was much more than just a horror writer. He made his living, such as it was, with his pen, so he did all sorts of writing. He wrote satire, comedy, poetry, adventure and Gothic stories. He was also one of the originators of the mystery genre, along with being an inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle. Poe was also known as a literary critic; others may have disagreed with him, but they could not discount his arguments. He did not write easy-to-read, "tabloid" fiction; his stories required some effort on the part of the reader. (Roberts, 1993)

The stories that one would expect in any Poe collection are here, like "The Purloined Letter," "The Cask of Amontillado," and "The Masque of the Red Death." Included is one of his many satires, looking exactly like a newspaper article describing a successful trans-Atlantic trip by balloon? In the 1840s, the public was abuzz with talk of balloon trips across the Atlantic greatly shortening the travel time. Poe simply took that national obsession and ran with it.

The Americanist Justin Henry, born in 1937, is professor emeritus at the Centre for Studies and Research on the literature of the imagination - University of Paris XII. It is the main French specialist of the work of Poe, which he has devoted his entire academic ...