Ligeia's Return From The Dead: Liigeia

Return From the Dead: Ligeia The word ambiguous describes that which is capable of two or more contradictory meanings. This word perfectly portrays the Poe story Ligeia in a nutshell. Throughout the text the reader is expected to interpret the story and make distinctions between which of the two possible meanings is in all actuality the "true" reading. But unbeknownst to a vast majority of the scholars who attempt to interpret and analyze the text, both of the conclusions to which the reader can venture are relevant. The author wants to lead the reader astray and therefore uses as much evidence as possible to make the multiple angles from which the reader can view the text as "correct". What many do not pick up on is the fact that no amount of evidence from either of the viewpoints out weighs that of the other. Some may believe the narrator only wished Ligeia would return so he completely imagined the events contained throughout the story. While other readers may believe that Ligeia did actually return and it was through her own will that this event happened. The goal of this essay is to disprove the misconception that there is only one way to
This was briefly discussed in the previous paragraph when the fact the narrator is an alleged opium user and suffers from paranoia. This interpretation does make much sense, because it allows the reader to read beyond what is written on the paper and think for himself, while using information that indirectly stems into this theory. It allows the reader to stem beyond looking at the story as mere "Bathroom" reading and forces the reader to think for himself and draw uneasy conclusions. The evidence that this reading outweighs the others is still not apparent. The viewpoint of many can be completely convoluted by the fact they only peer directly into the looking glass and never attempt different