One similar theme I noticed in both “Ligeia” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” was the presence of resurrection. In “Ligeia”, the narrator’s dead wife Rowena comes back to life, but then she appears to turn into the form of the dead Ligeia. In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the dead Madeline comes back to life. In both instances, the resurrection of the dead serves to disturb the narrator greatly. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” the narrator is so disturbed that he leaves the house immediately (641). The narrator of “Ligeia”, meanwhile, describes himself as “a helpless prey to a whirl of violent emotions” while he watches the resurrection of his dead wife (628). Poe’s stories show resurrection as a frightening event that disrupts the balance of nature, and leaves the narrator, and the reader, feeling unsettled. I thought this was interesting, because I feel like most people would be happy to find a way to bring their dead loved ones back to life. But Poe’s stories suggest that disrupting the boundaries between life and death would not be a good thing.