Ligeia

While reading the story Ligeia you are introduced to the narrator who not only seems to not be all there but also seems to have this massive attraction to his true love, Ligeia. As we began to read the story we are introduced to the lady with whom he is in love with and within the next couple of pages she dies, which leaves a deep hole in the heart of the narrator. When he was done mourning the loss of his beloved Ligeia the narrator marries again but like the last time his wife also dies. The corpse of his now dead second wife lays on the bed in the massive, beautiful room that once welcomed her as a bride. As the night goes on strange things begin to happen to the cold corpse. It begins to move and the narrator, even though he refers to the revelation as being a side effect of the drugs he is taking, he sees the body begin to transform, or turn, into the body of his long lost beloved wife Ligeia. Now is when as readers we begin to question whether or not the narrator really has ever seen ligeia or whether she is a made up figment of his imagination. To me the way he talks about her paints a picture in my mind. The emphasis placed on her eyes and he strange beauty makes her all the real to a reader. Even though the narrator is on opium and is not at all in his right mind he still knows that he does love her and she is there. Which makes the ending of the story where they are reunited by some weird miracle all the more interesting and making the characters, especially Ligeia all the more real.