The Women of Eleonora, Ligeia, Berenice, and Morella

The female "Eleonora", "Ligeia", "Berenice", "Morella" of Eleonora, Ligeia, Berenice, Morella are all story of beautiful death, but they are not almost the same story. They contain many of the same elements and activities, but their genius comes from a unique, sometimes subtle difference and a strong end sometimes. In all stories, we all have a narrator associated with a woman entering his beauty. Some of the qualities of these women are duplicated in explanation, but each narrator praises its own quality which becomes each obsession.

"Morela, the story, EDGAR A. POE" (as he wrote in the previous "Berenice"), so far has been a majority of those passionate and pessimistic passion exhibitions related to German genius It is the best among them. . It is romantic. Regardless of how attractive an unstable emotion or unnatural imagination of a poetic and lively heart is, it is necessary to think that this excessive characterization is harmful to the correct preference. Mr. Poe can provide a more practical flight if he does not suffocate his genius tendency by pathological hypersensitivity or is eliminated from its natural passage by supra fantasy devastating new things There is no doubt. It certainly will achieve enviable excellence. . .

Text: Dwight R. Thomas and David K. Jackson, "Chapter 04 [Part 01]," Poe Log (1987), pp. 145-185

When reading the story of Edgar Allan Poe, it is absolutely impossible to assume that the deceased really disappeared. It is proved that the deceased returned to "Berenice", "Collapse of Usher House", and of course "Ligeia". Just before her death, Ligia cited Joseph Granville in a tombstone: "A man can not devote him to an angel and he can not even die perfectly." A narrator told Ligeia before Stating that it is very strong and intellectual, and this line will guide her return through her strong will power, as well as the story above, the talker may be unreasonable It must be thoughtful.