Holmes Vs Poe

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The acclaimed authors, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle, formulate the characters of Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes respectively, to be similar in the way that they analyze, deduce, and connect segments of desperate and often-thought “unsolvable” detective cases. Through their comparable techniques and system of deduction, Dupin and Holmes never fail to trace back their evidence to the scene of the crime. However, due to the vast difference in the writing styles of Poe and Doyle, the audience observes the main characters not as clones, but rather an analogous pair that think alike, but do not act alike. The personalities of Auguste Dupin and Sherlock Holmes, although present are recognizable differences in their actions, continue to …show more content…

Dupin deduces that the location of the stolen letter, in the hands of Minister D., is hidden in plain sight; Minister D. is both a poet and mathematician, which therefore is too clever to leave the letter somewhere the police would check first, that being hidden. When the Prefect spends all his time looking closely at the nooks and crannies of Minister D.'s apartment, including microscopic searches, Dupin searches through a random pile of letters in plain sight. Dupin comes across a letter that is radically different from the letter described by the Prefect. This is later then revealed to be the purloined letter all …show more content…

Poe’s Dupin and Doyle’s Holmes are undeniably similar in their tactics and careful analyzations of each and every given case, but they are not clones. Authors have an influence on audience judgement of character analyses. Poe’s writing style is dark, mysterious, and gothic in a narrative descriptive form. Contrastingly, Doyle’s writing style is neutral in emotion, which allows the audience to partake in the actions through the audience surrogate. Therefore, due to the discrepancies in the approach of storytelling, Dupin and Holmes are similar to the point that their comparable tactics and way of thinking suggests that "great minds think alike," but not similar to the point that they are indistinguishable. It is most evident to suggest that it is due to other circumstances the influence of the respective authors’ writing style, allows the audience to perceive the characters as having fundamental differences. However, one must realize that they are similar to an indefinite extent that outweigh their

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