Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders In the Rue Morgue"

        In Edgar Allen Poe's short story, 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue', a classic detective story is played out in a seedy Paris suburb. The story begins as the narrator meets Monsieur C. Auguste Dupin, a poor but well-read young man. As they become close friends, they live together in seclusion, departing only briefly each evening to take introspective strolls along the dark Paris streets. Soon both the reader and the narrator begin to see …showed first 75 words of 1019 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1019 total…to prove that these apparent 'impossibilities' are, in reality, not such.(p. 23)' Here, Dupin states that the human imagination cannot be limited by improbability when looking for solutions applying to the natural world, but must consider all possibilities, however improbable, until proven wrong. In other words, imagination and emotion should not limit, but guide the natural world. Because of this apparent connection, 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' is a true reflection of Romanticism.