Explore the ways in which Poe shows the presence of violence in Murders of the Rue Morgue

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Explore the ways in which Poe shows the presence of violence in Murders of the Rue Morgue Poe explores the themes of violence and violent tendencies in his use of language within the story. In the descriptions of the murders, he uses language such as "besmeared" ("...razor, besmeared with blood"). This is an example of DLC within the text, but the use of the word helps to create an image of large levels of blood which has been spilt, the use of the much more graphic word helps to create a violent image in the
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readers head of someone being brutally attacked by a person. The descriptions used for the crime scene are also designed to be graphic in its description to help create an image of violence within the story: "tress...pulled out by the roots" tress is an older term for a chunk or lock of hair, but when it is described as pulled out by the roots, the use of very physical and graphic text to describe it helps again to depict a very aggressive attack in the readers mind. It also helps to add an element of mystery to the overall story, ...

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