In 1838, Poe published "Ligeia.... Devastated, the narrator moves to England and remarries, yet still never gets over Ligeia. His new wife, Lady Rowena Trevanion, is described as almost opposite of Ligeia aesthetically. Lady Rowena was "fair-haired and blue-eyed," and shorter than Ligeia ("Ligeia"). ... In the end, the narrator realizes that it is not Lady Rowena coming back to life, but actually Ligeia through Rowena's body, as it morphs into the body of Ligeia (Ligeia-Poe's Stories). ...

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Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". ... Introduction Edgar Allan Poe once said "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.... Certainly, any close examination of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. ... (Poe 1975: 290). ... Poe's mother Elizabeth Poe died when he was only a child. ...

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."1 Therefore, it makes sense that if mortals cannot bear the darkness, they [should not] not go there. If man dislikes "black night and yawning chasms,"2 then should he not even consider them? Shouldn't man seek out the sunshine, instead? The remedy is very simple: Avoid the darkness and seek the light. But, no. ...

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