Discussion At First, when Poe wrote this short tale he called it "Life in Death" but later he changed its title to "The Oval Portrait" .As an overall picture or a summary for the plot of the story, the setting is in an abandoned chateau in Apennines, Italy. ... " (292) The book describes the painter, an eccentric obsessed with his art of painting and worships it more than anything even more than his beloved wife. ... Poe's mother Elizabeth Poe died when he was only a child. ... It must be a terrible blow for him not to have someone to support him in any possible...

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Part 1 – Summary The Psychopathology of Everyday Life is Sigmund Freud's sixteenth work published, and the title is quite fitting for the context of the book. ... Later, he revised his theory and claimed that these so-called memories were actually fantasies, and that the reported events had only been imagined. ...

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