Hello everyone,:wave:
I have to write a researsh paper about the symbols
in a short story called " ligeia" by: Edgar Allan Poe
so, please can u help me with that :frown5:
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Hello everyone,:wave:
I have to write a researsh paper about the symbols
in a short story called " ligeia" by: Edgar Allan Poe
so, please can u help me with that :frown5:
So what symbols did you find?
Err. Go read the story and use YOUR brain. I'm sure we'd be willing to HELP you (not write the paper for you!) if you came here and had ideas you needed to bounce off of other people. =) THAT is what we are here for- not for telling you what to write, because you didn't read the story.
Ligeia, but here are two: Ligiea is met by the narrator near the Rhine and her mysticism and knowledge are symbolic of the German point of view concerning learning. Rowena, the narrator's second wife, is symbolic of Anglican romanticism. It is no accident she is named for the female protaginist in Scott's Ivanhoe. So the two antipodal theories of German and Anglican knowledge are set in motion.
On the other hand, the tale may simply be ironic, a satire of Gothic tales which usually were bred out of German folk tales.
The tale was introduced about 1838 and was changed much during Poe's life. The unamed narrator is ostensibly Poe himself, and as such, he has narcotic delusions. So, as a narrator, he is not to be trusted.
Rowena's tranformation into Ligeia at Rowena's death, might be considered as the Germanic point of view conquering the Anglican one. What do you think about the poem included in the story: the Conquering Worm?