Berenice By Edgar Allan Poe

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The Theme of the novel “Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe is the quote from the beginning of the story, revealing what is to expected of the story that states that visiting a grave helps relieve suffering. Also he observes that evil comes from goodness and sorrow comes from happiness, each of these are in this story and at the end of the story he goes to the grave of Berenice and digs her up and pulls out of her teeth and the most mess up part about that is that she was buried alive and she was alive when this was happening and after he pulled her teeth out he put them in a box, on his desk. The main character is Egueus and Berenice, his cousin. In this story he is married to Berenice, who is beautiful and graceful and also healthy but that is the

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