Mirroring in Edgar AIlan Poe's Ligeia

Ligeia and Rowena reflected in Edgar AIlan Poe 's Ligeia are reflected in "Ligeia" of Edgar AIlan Poe or are doubling. Balance These two women also symbolize the world of "reality" and the world of "dreams", reflecting these two worlds as mirrors and readers' messengers and guides, so either one You have to choose. Therefore, Ligeia is a symbol of the world of dark dreams, a door to the survival of the opium desired by the narrator. It is troublesome to avoid.

"Ligeia" (/ laɪdʒiːə /) is an early short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1838. The story talks about an unknown narrator and his wife, Ligeia, a beautiful and smart woman with hair of crow. She got sick and wrote "Conqueror Worms" and quoted the line of Joseph Granville just before her death (which shows that life can survive only by the power of will). After her death, the narrator married Lady Rowena. Rowena is sick and she is dead. The agitated narrator stayed in her body all night and saw that Rowena slowly resurrected from death - she became rehired. This story is the illusion caused by opener of the narrator, whether the story is ironic and controversial. After this story was first posted on the American Museum, it was greatly modified and reprinted throughout the entire life of Allan Poe.

"Ligeia" filled with the shadow of "the collapse of American houses" is still one of the most famous stories of EDGAR A LLAN POE. By talking to the late wife Ligeia by the narrator, it achieved the goal of Poe's "single effect". In a detailed episode that relies on sensational events, the enthusiastic attention of the narrator to Ligeia leads to an amazing and ambiguous DENOUEMENT. In the story, Poe also uses an unreliable narration that the reader must often distrust. This powerful story about Ligeia, a strongly willing woman, will regain its vitality to the body of the narrator's second wife, Rowena, as the critics Gordon Weaver observed. Current Garcia 67). Obviously, the narrator is fascinated by Ligeia. After remarriage, he remembered to the reader the history of his relationship with Ligeia, so he treated his second wife in a disliked way. Poe left a lot of details of strange and unresolved stories

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