far as my own acquintance extended in regard to the modern dialects of Europe. I have never known her at fault”.Her beauty is very non-traditional: “features were not of that regular mould which we have been falsely taught to worship in the classical labors of the heathen”. While Rowena has a classical appearance: “the fair-haired, the blue-eyed”. The narrator is not so much affected by Rowena. When he marries her, does not even tells her appearance, only talks about bridal chamber, what shows that he is not interested in Rowena at all. And when the narrator is with Rowena, he always thinks about Ligeia. He kills Rowena off , having Ligeia, the heroine and personification of beauty, live on through Rowena’s body.In Romanticism, many times the writers threw out the rational and replaced it with irregular and unexplained. ...
