Egaeus Character Analysis

Egaeus grew up with his aunt, uncle, and cousin in a unwelcoming mansion. His mom died when he was a young boy, in the library, which is now the only place that gives him comfort. There he wastes his time reading, day-dreaming, and meditating. There in the mansion, is where he met Berenice, and she was his cousin. Egaeus grew up with her and they later got married. They were very different people. Berenice was outgoing, care free, joyous, and very energetic. However, Egaeus was an introvert, he tends to fall into episodes of extreme focus as he separates himself from the outside world. He said that he loitered away his boyhood in books, and dissipated his youth in reverie. He had a past of deaths occurring in his family, and the only one he …show more content…
She suffered Epilepsy and it changed her habits, character, and the identity of her person, as well as taking a toll on her appearance, except her teeth, they were still flawless. Through all of this he still loved her the same as he first did, marrying her. Yet, Egaeus suffered from “his own disease” which got worse as Berenice got worse. They were one and they never gave up on each other until the tragedy. Berenice and Egaeus were at the library and he noticed her shining smile when he saw her. “The shutting of a door disturbed me, and, looking up, I found that my cousin had departed from the chamber. But from the disordered chamber of my brain, had not, alas! departed, and would not be driven away, the white and ghastly spectrum of the teeth. Not a speck on their surface --not a shade on their enamel --not an indenture in their edges” All he could think about was her teeth in the midst of his hands.”The teeth! --the teeth! --they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the pale lips writhing about them.” He became obsessed with her beaming fluorescent teeth, they calmed