Ligeia And Moreella Resurrections

Resurrection simply defined is to bring someone or something back to life. In both of Poe’s works, Ligeia and Morella, the characters are resurrected for different purposes and in different manners. It could be questioned whether these are genuine resurrections at all or other happenings entirely. At first glance they both seem to be, however, a closer look at the resurrection of Ligeia could be nothing more than a figment of an anguished lovesick imagination. While that of Morella could be either genuine or imagined.

The narrator of Morella, her husband, begins by telling us he has a deep affection for his friend Morella; he tells us that they married, though he did not love her, still she loved him. Her motivation gives the impression that it was the lack of love and affection from her husband. Though he did value and appreciate her intellect, and gave his full attention in this capacity. Another possible point for her

If it is a true resurrection Ligeia’s motivation was not driven by revenge, but her will to live; or her husband’s obsession with his late wife. As with Morella, the narrator in this tale is the husband, unlike it though her husband is completely devoted to her in every way even after death. “For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique. It might have been, too, that in these eyes of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam alludes. They were, I must believe, far larger than the ordinary eyes of our own race. They were even fuller than the fullest of the gazelle eyes of the tribe of the valley of Nourjahad. Yet it was only at intervals – in moments of intense excitement – that this peculiarity became more than slightly noticeable in Ligeia.” (Kennedy, p.113) In this too her husband also appreciated her intellect and her zest for life; many if not all of her studies were of the occult, the