Comparing Pursuit of Perfection by Poe and Hawthorne and the Realism of

Quest for Perfection by Poe and Hawthorne and the Realism of Melville and Jacobs  â â â One of the components of Romanticism is the quest for flawlessness. While Poe and Hawthorne's characters endeavor futile for the ideal lady (or rather her ideal quality) or the flawlessly built individual, Melville definitely realizes that flawlessness is a dream. Melville paints an increasingly practical picture of the defects of society. The ladies scholars take Melville's evaluations of the world and the human condition much further. Phelps and Jacobs' know direct about the misinterpretations of flawlessness and the powerlessness to catch that picture. The weight of consistent family life wears on the ladies in these accounts. Jacobs' story worries about the heaviest concern of all being subverted by the suppression of ladies and the hardships of bondage.  â â In Poe's Ligeia the storyteller is enraptured by his better half's excellence and insight, with which he gets fixated. He is especially pulled in to the dear music of her low sweet voice. Her uncommon and tremendous learning makes her one of a kind and charming. In any case, since her insight was, for example, the storyteller had never known in a lady she is a risk. Johanyak says that, Poe's scholarly courageous women are first romanticized and afterward dreaded or misconstrued by men who neglect to comprehend or acknowledge their journey for information (63).â The storyteller concedes that he had never known her to blame. Fundamentally, he is surrendering that she was in reality the ideal lady. In the game changing example of Poe's female characters, such flawlessness must be rebuffed. She bites the dust and the storyteller struggles with his misfortune. It isn't until this retelling of their marriage that the storyteller genuinely acknowledges all that she was and all t hat ... ... Dayan, Joan. The Identity of Berenice. Studies in Romanticism 23.4 (1984) 491-513. Holly, Carol. Disgracing the Self in The Angel Over the Right Shoulder. American Literature 60.1 (1988): 42-60. Johanyak, Debra. Poesian Feminism: Triumph or Tragedy. CLA Journal 39.1 (1995): 62-70. Morgan, Winifred. Sex Related Differences in the Slave Narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass. American Studies 35.2 (1994): 73-94. Rosenberg, Liz. The Best that Earth Could Offer. The Birth-Mark: a Newlywed's Story. Studies in Short Fiction 30.2 (1993): 145-51. Rowland, Beryl. Staying up with a Corpse: Malthus According to Melville in Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs. Journal of American Studies 6 (1972): 69-83. Zanger, Jules. Talking about the Unspeakable: Hawthorne's The Birth-Mark. Modern Philology 80.4 (1983): 364-71.â