Over ons - Bureau Dupin (2024)

FAQs

What are the five points that are essential to the killer's identity according to Dupin? ›

Dupin identifies five points as essential to the killer's identity: he has a shrill voice with no words, the agility to get in through the window, superhuman strength, inhuman cruelty, and no motive.

As the two are walking along one night, Dupin makes a comment on what the narrator had been thinking. It is as if Dupin had read his mind. Dupin lists out the narrator's train of thought, explaining that he has made detailed observations and was able to analyze what his friend was thinking.

Dupin states that the Parisian Police often fail because they only analyze cases using circ*mstantial evidence. The “necessary knowledge” to solve a crime, he counters, is to know “what to observe.” He considers his methods as ingenious; he eliminates all preconceived notions and derives entirely new approaches.

At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human. As the first fictional detective, Poe's Dupin displays many traits which became literary conventions in subsequent fictional detectives, including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.

He employs what he terms "ratiocination". Dupin's method is to identify with the criminal and put himself in his mind. By knowing everything that the criminal knows, he can solve any crime.

Using this theory, Dupin visited Minister D —— and found the letter in plain sight but boldly disguised. He memorized the appearance of the letter, and he left a snuffbox as an excuse to return. Having duplicated the letter, he exchanged his facsimile for the original during a prearranged diversion.

Though the police believe the windows to be nailed shut, Dupin discovers a broken nail in one window, which only seemed to be intact. Dupin surmises that someone could have opened the window, exited the apartment, and closed the window from the outside without raising suspicion.

Monsieur G— comes into the library. He needs advice from Dupin about a case. The prefect says that a document was stolen from "a certain royal personage" and that the police know the identity of the thief.

Narrator (The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Purloined Letter) Character Analysis. A close friend of Auguste Dupin. Though the narrator does not possess Dupin's genius, in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he begins to share Dupin's eccentric way of life, and they go out strolling at night through the Paris streets.

Auguste Dupin, wears green spectacles in “The Purloined Letter” (1844) and in “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt” (1842), using them to hide the movements of his eyes (and his dozing).

Why does Dupin replace the real letter with a facsimile? ›

Answer: He wanted to make sure that no one but Dupin would know that the real letter had been recovered. If Minister D- realized that the letter had been taken, he might inform somebody else, and that person might inform yet another person.

For example, in “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Dupin walks the narrator step-by-step through the evidence before offering his conclusion, that the murders were committed by an escaped orangutan.

His highly creative, observant and analytical mind allows him to perceive where the police are going wrong, and stay one step ahead of the criminals.

Dupin tells the narrator of "Rue-Morgue" that he expects to be met by someone who is in part responsible for the crime. He says the man is probably largely innocent but he hopes the man will prove to be the key to the riddle.

Dupin's preference to think in the dark ties into his larger beliefs on problem-solving. Dupin doesn't like to get bogged down in details, that is, see too much, and instead focus only on the larger facts of a case.

The interpersonal traits include glibness, superficial charm, a grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, and the manipulation of others. The affective traits include a lack of remorse and/or guilt, shallow affect, a lack of empathy, and failure to accept responsibility.

Appears both in The Murders in the Rue Morgue and in The Purloined Letter as the clever companion of the narrator of those two stories. His highly creative, observant and analytical mind allows him to perceive where the police are going wrong, and stay one step ahead of the criminals.

It is considered one of the first detective stories. The story opens with the discovery of the violent murder of an old woman and her daughter. No grisly detail is spared in the description of the crime scene as it is discovered by neighbours responding to the women's screams.

The clues that helped Dupin solve the case are the voices, the size of the hand, the strength needed to shove the daughter up the chimney and slit the mother's throat and especially the key to all of them: the escape route of the murderer.