The fact is, we don`t know. The title emphasizes that the most important thing about the letter is its quality of being stolen. Once out of the race, he can be doomed to travel endlessly – like a ghost ship sailing forever with a band of skeleton pirates. The #1 very smart guy Jaques Lacan wrote a famous (and notoriously difficult) essay on this story. He says that “stolen” is a version of the word “extended” and that “we are simply dealing with a letter that has been distracted from its path; the one whose course has been extended” (source). In other words, the royal lady`s letter deviated from its trajectory. Perhaps the title tells us to read “The Purloined Letter” as the story of the “extended” letter trying to return to its owner. The second half of “The Purloined Letter” consists of Dupin`s explanation to his columnist about how he received the letter. One of his basic hypotheses is a reversal of one of the aphorisms introduced in “Les meurtres de la rue Morgue”; The case is so difficult to solve because it seems so simple.
In addition, Dupin introduced the method of psychological deduction. Before he did anything else, he checked everything he knew about Minister D——. Then he checked what he knew about the case. With this in mind, Dupin tried to reconstruct the minister`s thinking and decided that he probably would have hidden the letter from everyone`s eyes. With this theory, Dupin visited Minister D – and found the letter in sight, but boldly camouflaged. He memorized the appearance of the letter and left a snuffbox as an excuse to return. After duplicating the letter, he exchanged his facsimile for the original in a pre-arranged diversion. He took his snuffbox and left. His solution introduces into the detective literature the formula of the “most obvious place”.
Decipher the letters to create a synonym for Pourloin: TTAARCSB. The chief inspector returned to Dupin`s house a few days later, unable to find the letter, wishing to be able to pay 50,000 francs to whoever found it. Dupin asks the Chief Inspector to write the cheque because he found the letter and shows it to him. The Chief Inspector will then bring the letter to the Queen. Claude then asks how Dupin was able to find the letter, after which Dupin reveals that he used logic: When the police searched the chancellor`s apartment, they believed that the chancellor had hidden the letter in the wrong place, but because the chancellor was also a poet, he was also a creative thinker, so he actually hid it outside. When Dupin arrived at the chancellor`s house for a social visit, he scanned the room and found the letter in a card holder. It is also revealed that the letter was written in the Chancellor`s hand and bore his seal. Dupin left a snuffbox as an excuse to return the next day. D. resumed the same conversation they had started the day before and was surprised by a gunshot in the street. While on his way to investigate, Dupin exchanged Dupin`s letter for a duplicate.
A letter from the queen`s lover was stolen from her boudoir by the unscrupulous minister D. D. was in the room, had seen the letter and exchanged it for an unimportant one. Since then, he has blackmailed the queen. The debate up to the mid-1980s is summarized in a useful, if incomplete, volume entitled The Purloined Poe. [15] For example, the volume does not include Richard Hull`s reading based on the work of Michel Foucault, in which he argues that “`The Purloined Letter` is a good text to challenge the metalinguistic claim that artists cannot avoid surveillance because it is a discourse about the superiority of poetry over surveillance.” [16] Slavoj Žižek asks: “Why does a letter always arrive at its destination? Why couldn`t he reach her, at least sometimes? [17] Hollis Robbins criticizes Derrida for his own blindness to patriotism by prefixing his reading of “The Purple Letter” with a reading of “The Emperor`s New Clothes”: “According to Derrida, Poe`s story and Andersen`s show a king whose masculinity is in danger, surrounded by ineffective and habitually motivated officials, and saved by an individual. That is what is obvious. Both save the crown from further embarrassment. There is never any question that a king can or should fall into disgrace. [18] The prefect says he and his police detectives searched D.`s townhouse and found nothing.
They had looked behind the wallpaper and under the carpets. His men examined the tables and chairs with magnifying glasses, then probed the cushions with needles, but found no signs of disturbance; The letter is not hidden in these places. Dupin asks the prefect if he knows what he is looking for, and the prefect reads a meticulous description of the letter, which Dupin memorizes. The prefect then wishes them a good day. The personality of the anonymous narrator, the chronicler Dupin, lies between these two extremes. Although he shares some of Dupin`s tastes – silent contemplation in the dark, for example – and has some understanding of Dupin`s methods, he seems psychologically closer to G – than to Dupin.