The women of Eleonora, Ligeia, Berenice and Morella"Eleonora", "Ligeia", "Berenice" and "Morella" are all stories of beautiful women who die, but they are hardly the same story. They contain many of the same elements and activities, but their brilliance lies in their unique and sometimes subtle differences and intense endings. In all the stories we have a narrator who is involved with a woman whose beauty fascinates him. Some of these women's qualities overlap in their description, but each narrator admires a unique quality that becomes his obsession. The death and resurrection of these women causes mental and emotional tension on the part of the narrator. Berenice is described as "agile, graceful and overflowing with energy" with "a wondrous yet fantastical beauty". Some of his physical characteristics included a high forehead and pale skin with "hollow temples" and curly hair. In this story the narrator focuses on Berenice's teeth. "But from the distorted chamber of my brain; had not, alas! departed, and would not be driven away, the white and ghastly specter of his teeth." Why the narrator chooses her teeth that he is obsessed with is puzzling, perhaps they represent purity (Griffin) or they are special because they are the only things that didn't change when she got sick. Ligeia is described as tall and slender with a "high, pale forehead" and "skin that rivals the purest ivory". "In the beauty of her face no girl has ever equaled her." The narrator notes the "gentle relief of the regions above the temples" and her jet-black tresses. But it is his "big eyes" that haunt him. Eleonora is given the characteristics of "bright eyes" and a "soft voice". The narrator says, "Was Eleanor's beauty that of... middle of paper... an intimate connection with nature? Since all of these stories are told from the male narrator's point of view, we are only allowed to know these women as the narrators knew them. And whether by their own admission or by the style of their narrative voice, the entire mental stability of the narrators is called into question. The reader will accept the narrator's tale or Poe intentionally questions these men to let the reader that these women exist only in the minds of the narrators? In all of these stories women possess the narrators in life and death. Although Poe may seem to recycle these women, they each have unique purposes and characteristics Attention to detail and complexities that Poe weaves into his tales of these women and the men in their lives, relying on the mysteries of the supernatural, make these stories intense..