Berenice

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…

Wedding, there are two very similar characters that are a reflection of each other. In this novel, part two chapter 2, Berenice and F. Jasmine have a different conversation than usual. The conversation is about love and Berenice brings up the topic about “queer” love, in other words, homophobic affection. F. Jasmine doesn’t avoid the conversation, instead, she is intrigued by it. Berenice introduces a person named, “Lily Mae Jenkins” to F. Jasmine. Lily Mae Jenkins is a man that fell in love…

trespasses into forbidden areas and in the story “Berenice,” the protagonist, Egaeus, trespasses into the unknown. In the poem, “I Heard a Fly Buzz,” a fly trespasses by invading the narrators last few moments. In the movie The Conjuring, the Perron family moves into a house in which the former owners feel as if they are trespassing on their property. In the novel Dracula, the protagonist Jonathan Harker trespasses into forbidden areas and in the story “Berenice,” the protagonist Egaeus…

shared inner life of its basic mystery” (Shulman 1). Many works of Edgar Allan Poe explore the phenomena of the human mind. Despite the study psychology having not been introduced yet, Poe’s stories “The Black Cat”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and “Berenice” examine various happenings of the human mind. In “The Black Cat”, Poe explores very distinctive features of the human mind: irrationality, guilt, and perverseness. Early in the story, the unnamed narrator accuses his wife of being…

his characters possess this phantom illness. Poe keeps his readers conflicted about how his ?stable? characters possess a questionable mental state.[endnoteRef:1] Stories like ?The Tell-Tale Heart,? ?The Premature Burial,? ?The Oval Portrait,? and ?Berenice,? illustrate the very plague of insanity taking the form of obsession. Each protagonist is infatuated with either an inanimate object or an abstract idea which drives each over the edge. There are different extents a person will go to in…

F64 club. F64 relating to long exposure times for clear sharp images. They called this style of photography ‘Straight photography’. The group consisted of: • Ansel Adams • Edward Weston • Brett Weston • Imogen Cunningham • Dody Weston Thompson • Berenice Abbott It was an exciting and innovative way to…

Abert’s Grove entry provides an overview of her success as Duchess but also her successes outside of the regency. Amalia was known for her influence in synthesizing poetry and music at the time. After tending to her role as Duchess, Amalia toured Italy and in response wrote an essay adoring Italian singing. The understanding that we have gain through Abert does not have great details but we must bridge this gap with the help of Jezic we can have a fuller understanding of Amalia’s life. Jezic’s…

states that “His eyes were tortured by even taint light.” With this line, one has to infer and figure out on their own that this means he can’t go outside. Roderick Usher cannot go outside due to his illness. He is stuck in his house until death. “Berenice” is a story about family being isolated to their home due to sickness, like “Fall of the House of Usher”. It states that the narrator’s “…recollections of my earliest years are connected with this chamber.” This means that he has been stuck in…

and his mistress (scene 5). B See if students remember the meaning of the word "eponymous" seen in the "Before" and ask them to look for other eponymous pieces bearing the names of women. Note that there are many in the seventeenth century (Phèdre, Bérénice, Athalie ...), and very little in the twentieth, if not the reprints of these same characters from mythology or history (Électre de Giraudoux, Antigone d ' Anouilh, Penthesilea of Kleist, Joan of Arc at the stake of Claudel ... or Judith or…

The first trading posts in Lybia were established by Phoenicians when the merchants of Tyre (current Lebanon) developed commercial relations with the Berber tribes and made treaties with them to ensure their cooperation in the exploitation of raw materials. By the 5th century B.C.E., Carthage, the greatest Phoenician colony, had extended its hegemony across North Africa, where the distinctive civilization of Punic came into being. Punic settlements on the Libyan coast included Oea (later…