Contact Admin. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Edgar Allan Poe's short story about a young man named Egaeus who lives in a gloomy mansion with his cousin named Berenice. Egaeus develops an obsessive disorder which makes him fixated on certain objects while in a trance-like state. He ends up being obsessed with his cousin's teeth, which ultimately leads to her murder.
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Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Difficult to read and hard to determine the significance of any given sentence. I still really don't know what happened. The doctor-alienist relates to the narrator how this inmate is obsessed with the gaze of eyes from an artist's portrait. Obsession in this tale is clear-cut and unambiguous, the level-headed narrator encountering two different men obsessed by painterly eyes.
The old man relates how they both heard a sound and saw something white pass across the death bed and disappear under an armchair. Terrified, they moved to death chamber. We read, "Meanwhile my friend, who had taken the other candle, bent down. Then he touched my arm without a word. I followed his gaze and there, on the ground, under the armchair next to the bed, all white on the dark carpet, open as if ready to bite - Schopenhauer's false teeth.
But as powerful as his experience was, it had a completely rational explanation. A doctor-alienist observing the young man in his sanitarium notes, "Undoubtedly, the duplication of personality manifested itself regularly, at two-year intervals: Let's now move to Poe's tale, which is, in many respects, at the opposite end of the aesthetic spectrum from all three of the above tales. Rather than a straight-forward story told by a level-headed narrator, Poe's tale-teller conveys how he has been sickly and morose and mentally unbalanced since childhood, which, of course, alerts us to question his reliability.
