The story “Eleonora” by Edgar Allen Poe is about the love between the narrator and his cousin Eleonora. Eleonora soon grows sick and while she’s on her death bed the narrator makes a promise to her that he will stay loyal to her until he dies and they can be together again. After she dies, the narrator soon leaves their old home and goes into the city where he meets Ermengarde and falls in love with her. After Eleonora’s death she watched over the narrator leaving signs she is. Poe employs symbolic scenery and double motif to enhance the theme of forbidden love and the instability of the narrator. |