Very strange, which is starting to become a noticeable theme with Poe. No matter who it is, or what the relation is to the main male protagonist, the female characters always suffer, and then sometimes die. In Ligeia, it is the first wife in which the protagonist aims to seek an imperfection and fails, yet finds a strangeness in her eyes. In her death, although he supposedly grieves and takes more opium, but does remarry. The torturing of the Lady of Tremaine is almost repeating what happened before only in her ravings of illness and in the stages between life and death she always has her eyes shut. It is never clear when the Lady of Tremaine stops being the Lady of Tremaine, and starts being the possessed impersonation/ ghosted of Ligeia.
Comments
Post a Comment