Giulianna31, The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Main Problem

Jun 1, 1800

Two ladies were murdered in their house in the Rue Morgue with no clues to who the murderer might be.

Rising Action, 1

Jun 2, 1800

Dupin and the narrator go to the house and Dupin looks around. Dupin keeps thinking there was something peculiar about all of it but can't figure out what.

Rising Action, 2

Jun 3, 1800

There were several testimonies about the murder. Everyone heard two voices, one a gruff frenchman. No one agreed on the second "shrill" voice but all stated it was a voice of a foreigner and no one was familiar with the language or distinguished any words.

Rising Action, 3

Jun 4, 1800

Dupin conludes that the brutality, strength, and the craziness of the murder was so extreme and that nothing was stolen that the murderer could not be human. He reads an article about ouran-outangs and there deep claws that will grip something to death. Dupin's theory is that the man slaughterer was an ourang-outang.

Rising Action, 4

Jun 5, 1800

Dupin also figures that the people of the crime exited from the crime through the window. Even though there was a nail in it, when the spring is opened they could escape and the spring would snap the window and nail back into place. Dupin knows that the owner was a sailor because of the knot made to the cord outside the window.

Climax

Jun 6, 1800

Owner of the Ourang-Outang comes to the house. It is obvious he is a sailor.

Falling Action

Jun 7, 1800

Dupin threatens him with a gun to get the truth out. Obivious that he was a sailor and states that his animal escaped and saw the light from the house. He entered and was killing the two ladies but when he saw his master, he got scared and tried to conceal his crime.

Resolution

Jun 8, 1800

Sailor states testimony and truth to the public and life moves on. The ourang-outang goes back to its owner.