Edgar Allan Poe was an artist of literature. He was one of the greatest thriller/story tellers that America has known. He was known as "a seminal figure in the development in science fiction and the detective story. His writing came to have enormous importance for modern French literature" (X, John Richardson). Edgar Allan Poe wasn't out to frighten his audience. According to Peithman, his interest for his audience was within the human mind. In three of his works, AMorella@, ALigeia@, and AThe Oval Portrait@, there are several similarities and differences of elements of fiction such as theme, plot, tone, symbol, point of view, and climax.

In the story ALigeia@, the narrator did not love Rowena. Ligeia did not resemble Rowena in any way. Ligeia was just a figment of his imagination. The man was merely insane. He created Ligeia. AThe narrator is obsessed with his Ideal to the point where it takes on a life of its own, and had no ability to control his mind@(Piethman 45). The narrator was always absorbed in the features of Ligeia and how wonderful she always looked. She was so perfect in every way that she could not possibly be human. Th

When the daughter was born, she looked exactly like Morella. Morella returned in the body of her daughter. She had her mother=s intelligence. Although, for some reason named his daughter Morella during her Baptism. He spoke her name once. The spoken name is the key to it=s power that it may raise the dead.

In AMorella@, the daughter was a constant reminder to make him feel guilty. Morella loved him very much. When she found out that he did not love him she transmitted her soul into her daughter so that way he would be punished for the way he had treated her.

The mood for these stories is very somber and erratic.The climax in AMorella@ was when he spoke her name once. In A Ligeia@, the climax of the story was when Rowena died and Ligeia took over her body. And in AThe Oval Portrait@the climax was when he finished painting and she then died and became the portrait.

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