Scholars have argued that Poe's "Berenice" is a satire of popular vampire fiction. In a letter to T. W. White, the editor who first accepted the short story for publication, Poe explains, "You ask in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful colored into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical." Please explain what Poe meant in the aforementioned quote. Cite one quotation from "Berenice" that supports Poe's claim. Could this be making fun of vampires? by Vannah Scarborough https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh en-us 2020-08-26 20:00:23 UTC 2020-08-28 02:59:06 UTC hello@padlet.com jess https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703380417 -Poe defines the meaning of "Berenice" as a tale that once held beauty but soon became horrifying. Poe creates this tale to highlight the theme of "the return of the repressed". The narrator's dreams were constructed of visions of what his jaded mind and heart had encountered. This creates a mirror of every human’s psyche because everyone has undergone a tragedy or a non-pleasant experience. Poe’s ability to relate his emotions to the everyman and create a feeling within the heart of the reader constructs a dreary plot. As one reads Poe’s work, they can experience a repressed feeling not felt before.

-This story could very well be making fun of vampires. Berenice's sudden illness suggests she has been bitten by a vampire. Egaeus develops a fear of her and therefore plots a way to rid himself of the threat of Berenice as a vampire. Satirically, he desires to remove her her teeth instead of exposing her to sunlight or taking a wooden stake to her heart. ]]> 2020-08-27 18:08:18 UTC https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703380417 Manny mannymarcantoni https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703381967 This quote is meant to explain what Poes intentions were with “Berenice”. The unimaginable becomes real in Poes words. He brings to life, a grotesque, and perverse story. Poe seems to respond to the question from the editor in a comical sort of mocking tone. He talks about how he turns “Exaggerated into the burlesque”. Those two words mean the same thing. He uses multiple words and synonyms for each word in the quote. An example of Poe doing this in the story is when the narrator repeats the same thing. The narrator says “Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow”(par. 1). This same sentence is repeated a few lines later in the same paragraph. He does this with multiple phrases throughout the story.

]]> 2020-08-27 18:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703381967 paris https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703382244 Poe editor is asking him what the short story "Berenice" is about and he responds with this quote. In this quote Poe is saying that you can ask why these weird things were happening. Although in everyday life weird things happen causing talks to heighten and make people fearful of things like his stories. He wants people to be scared to open up his book and read. He desires to get them nightmares. He wants to make people afraid of themselves that is why the man took the women's teeth out. I do think he is making fun of vampires because Berenice's sudden and mysterious illness suggest she has been bitten by a vampire. Egaeus professes,
"In the multiplied objects of the external world I had no thoughts but for the teeth" (par.10). He became so obsess with her teeth because he thinks taking her teeth out will stop her from becoming a vampire. He is making fun of the vampires story and making his better then others. That is why he focused on a the teeth instead of a stake.

]]> 2020-08-27 18:08:50 UTC https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703382244 Abigail Condon https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703382969 In the quote above Poes editor asked what he meant when he wrote this in a letter. This quote talks about the way that Berenice displays her personalities of possible vampires conspiracies. Poe is explaining that he was trying to portray Berenice as a enhance of the frightfulness throughout that story. If he did not add in all of the gruesome and disgusting details his pieces of writing would not be considered gothic stories. The narrator said, "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, as in the very moment of their first terrible development" (Par. 12). Here the narrator, Egaeus, is obsessed with Berenice and has pulled all her teeth out of her mouth. This is giving vampire like qualities to Berenice because of the way he talks about her white pale skin and how she is not able to see the sunlight because of her illness, epilepsy. ]]> 2020-08-27 18:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703382969 Lauren https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703383788 After Poe's editor questions his motives for writing this story, Poe responds with the aforementioned quote. Poe's response is his explanation of how simple everyday conversation tactics can be heightened into fearful enhancements for his stories. Normal authors can give goosebumps, but Poe manipulates words in order to keep his readers up at night, shaking. His goal for Berenice was to make grown adults afraid of the dark, afraid of their own minds. The vampire conspiracies are possible, given the obvious obsession with teeth shown, but given Poe's reputation for nightmare material, it is doubtful that this piece of gruesome literature was made to poke fun at a sub genre. Not to say he is not capable. He is intensely talented and it may be a greater accomplishment to one up past writers with a piece of satire than to write yet another terrifying story in his well known genre. ]]> 2020-08-27 18:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703383788 cole https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703386678 After the Editor asks him what Berenice is about I believe Poes response means this. Poe uses his colorful and creative language. He is talking about how incredible of a story his book is highlighting all of its most important elements. It starts of with a subtle happiness and beauty and then all hell breaks loose. His writings are like nothing else alway enticing the readers to search for more. We can she his rhetorical genius when he says, "How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace, a simile of sorrow? But, as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been." (par.1) He commonly projects two contradictory thoughts on paper this is a individualistic characteristic of poe. They are often gruesome or grotesque in nature. Poe wrote in many rhetorical tenses because he loved when two things disagreed. This dialect is very interesting because as the reader we wonder whether poe was feeling this way internally. Poe had a rough life and his thoughts really show this he lost everything he loved and he never saw fam in his lifetime.]]> 2020-08-27 18:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703386678 claire withingtonclairev https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703389780 An editor asks Poe what Berenice is about, and he responds with the quote above. What Poe means by this is you can't have a good story without disturbing, gruesome detail. It adds suspense to the story, heightens the reader's senses, and keeps them pulled in. The pain of his stories keeps them wondering and relating to their own personal lives. In the short story "A Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator states, "he had the eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold;..." (par. 2) The suspense and paranoid tone pulls the reader in as Poe expresses his true feelings in his story.]]> 2020-08-27 18:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703389780 Cory https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703399862 Poes writings are one of the most bizarre types of literature. His dark humor and no regress for what he writes is what makes him so famous but yet maybe one of the most hated for his disgusting mind.When Poe was asked about why he had written such an odd story he came up with what I would call a "Bs answer." he said

"You ask in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful colored into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical." He is trying to explain to people that there are people like this in the world and they are unstable and disgusting. Poe uses the word grotesque which means comically or repulsively ugly or distorted. Bernice is a story meant to show the ugly in people. for example poe uses the narrator of the story to say, "The teeth!- the teeth!" creating an obsession with this dead lady teeth he had just yanked out.

]]> 2020-08-27 18:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703399862 Jalayah https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703403310 T.W. White asks Poe what the short story "Bernice" is about and in what nature does it consist. Poe then responds back by saying that within this short story he turns it up a notch. Turing the fearful writing into gruesome content.]]> 2020-08-27 18:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703403310 Jeb Bell https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703428083 i think that Poe is trying to say that the story is trying to take something that is usually pretty normal and then elevate it to a level that the reader finds grotesque or unusual. this can be explained by " ]]> 2020-08-27 18:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/vannahscarborough/a81u6pczu2nzvuyh/wish/703428083