Murders in the rue mogue by Adrian

After reading The murders in the Rue Morgue a few times I have found several examples of places and pictures associated with mystery, anonymity and violence. Starting with the identity  of the narrator which is the biggest mystery in the story because the narrator does not reveals information about his or her person . Also, in the story there are other images associated with mysterious and anonymity.  The first one is the image narrated in the lines that says "Our first meeting was in an obscure library in the Rue Montmartre, where the accident of our both being in the search of the same very rare and very remarkable volume, brought us into closer communion" the term "obscure library" suggest an empty and dark place, in other a place full of mystery where anonymity can be easy to find,  also the reference to the book they are looking for describes some of the connection between them.  In the same paragraph we can find another image associated with mystery when the narrator tell us about moving together with Dupin into what the narrator describes as " a time eaten and grotesque mansion, long deserted through superstitions" and he also described the mansion  as "a retired and desolate portion of the Faubourg St. Germain" this is another picture of a dark and mysterious place, this place creates another connection between the two characters . The narrator says they didn't admit visitors that reflects the  anonymity of them and what they do in there.

Another picture created  in the story is the one that describes the scene of the crime, from the lines "the apartment was in the wildest disorder- the furniture broken and thrown about in all directions. There was only one bedstead; and from this the bed had been removed and thrown into the middle of the floor. On a chair lay a razor, besmeared with blood. On the hearth were two or three long and thick tresses of grey human hair, also dabbled in blood and seeming to have been pulled out by the roots"  the description of this picture creates a sense of exaltation  in the reader because describes a crime of massive violence and brutality, without knowing anything else about the crime, from these picture we can anticipate that there was  lot of violence and because of the razors we can assume that there was mutilation, that creates in the reader an impact of the violence involved in the crime.

The writer uses this pictures to give the story a big sense of mystery, darkness and violence. Allan Poe is known principally because of the darkness in his stories, and in this story  the author uses the picture of the library, the mansion, and the scene of the crime as a good example of how the use of archetypals can make a great difference on the reader perception.