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Berenice (short story)

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231:, a genre well-followed by American and British readers for several decades. Poe, however, made his Gothic stories more sophisticated, dramatizing terror by using more realistic images. This story is one of Poe's most violent. As the narrator looks at the box which he may subconsciously know contains his cousin's teeth, he asks himself, "Why... did the hairs of my head erect themselves on end, and the blood of my body become congealed within my veins?" Poe does not actually include the scene where the teeth are pulled out. The reader also knows that Egaeus was in a trance-like state at the time, incapable of responding to evidence that his cousin was still alive as he committed the gruesome act. Additionally, the story emphasizes that all 32 of her teeth were removed. 170:. The story is narrated by Egaeus, who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. He tends to fall into periods of intense focus, during which he seems to separate himself from the outside world. Berenice begins to deteriorate from an unnamed disease until only her teeth remain healthy. Egaeus obsesses over them. When Berenice is buried, he continues to contemplate her teeth. One day, he awakens with an uneasy feeling from a trance-like state and hears screams. A servant reports that Berenice's grave has been disturbed, and she is still alive. Beside Egaeus is a shovel, a poem about "visiting the grave of my beloved", and a box containing 32 teeth. 52: 205:
angles. At one point, a servant tells him that Berenice has died and shall be buried. When he next becomes aware, with an inexplicable terror, he finds a lamp and a small box in front of him. Another servant enters, reporting that a grave has been violated, and a shrouded disfigured body found, still alive. Egaeus finds that his clothes are covered in mud and blood, and he opens the box to find that it contains dental instruments and "thirty-two small, white and ivory-looking substances": Berenice's teeth.
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and "agile, graceful, and overflowing with energy." She is, however, an oppressed woman, having "spoke no word" throughout the story. Her only purpose, as with many of Poe's female characters, is to be beautiful and to die. Egaeus loses his interest in the full person of Berenice as she gets sick; she becomes an object to analyze, not to admire. He dehumanizes her by describing "the" forehead of Berenice, rather than "her" forehead.
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in March 1835. Many readers were shocked by the violence in "Berenice" and complained to publisher Thomas W. White, leading to an edited version eventually being published in 1840. The four removed paragraphs describe a scene where Egaeus visits Berenice before her burial and clearly sees that she is
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Egaeus and Berenice are both representative characters. Egaeus, literally born in the library, represents intellectualism. He is a quiet, lonely man whose obsession only emphasizes his interest on thought and study. Berenice is a more physical character, described as "roaming carelessly through life"
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One afternoon, Egaeus sees Berenice as he sits in the library. When she smiles, he focuses on her teeth. His obsession grips him, and for days he drifts in and out of awareness, constantly thinking about her teeth. He imagines himself holding the teeth and turning them over to examine them from all
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Poe disagreed with the complaints. A month after "Berenice" was published, he wrote to White saying that many magazines achieved fame because of similar stories. Whether in bad taste or not, he said it was his goal to be appreciated, and "to be appreciated you must be
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The main theme lies in the question that Egaeus asks himself: "How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?" Poe also uses a character afflicted with monomania for the first time, a device he uses many times again.
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The final lines of the story are purposely protracted using a series of conjunctions connecting multiple clauses. The rhythm as well as the heavy accented consonant and long vowels sounds help unify the effect.
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contains reenactments of selected stories by Poe. One of them is based on "Berenice" and allows the player to experience the story from the alternating points of view of both Egaeus and Berenice.
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My companions said to me, if I would visit the grave of my friend, I might somewhat alleviate my worries. I answered "could she be buried elsewhere than in my heart?"
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directed and took the lead in his 1954 short film adaptation of "Berenice" entitled "Bérénice", filmed in 16 mm black and white with cinematography by
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Teeth are used symbolically in many of Poe's stories to symbolize mortality. Other uses include the "sepulchral and disgusting" horse's teeth in "
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The narrator Egaeus, a studious young man, grows up in a large, gloomy mansion with his cousin Berenice. He suffers from a type of
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presented an adapted version of the story for its radio play "Berenice" as its January 9, 1975 episode. It was directed by
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on objects. Originally beautiful, Berenice suffers from an unspecified degenerative illness, of which periods of
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Contemporary readers were horrified by the story's violence and complained to the editor of the
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Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas.
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Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas
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Poe may have used the names of the two characters to call to mind the conventions of
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Catalepsy (see also "The Premature Burial", "The Fall of the House of Usher")
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Whalen, Terence. "Poe and the American Publishing Industry" as collected in
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Incidentally, this is one of the few Poe stories whose narrator is named.
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Several often-repeated themes in Poe's works are found in this story:
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There was a low-budget film adaptation released to video in 2004.
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Dixi autem, an ideo aliud praeter hoc pectus habet sepulchrum?
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Works originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger
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if her husband returns from war safely. Egaeus may come from
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Mental illness (see also "The Fall of the House of Usher", "
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In "Berenice", Poe was following the popular traditions of
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From "The Works of Sir William Jones, Vol. 2", London 1799
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Issue 11 (September 1967) includes a comic adaptation by
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Weekes, Karen. "Poe's Feminine Ideal," as collected in
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Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance
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Short story
Edgar Allan Poe

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Horror
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Southern Literary Messenger
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Edgar Allan Poe
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1835
obsessive
monomania
fixate
catalepsy
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epigraph
Gothic fiction
Metzengerstein
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Hop-Frog
ancient Greek
tragedy
Callimachus
Berenice
Aphrodite
Aegeus

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