Poe shows Ligea's deception through the trickery of Rowena's narrator. Rowena does not fit the mold of Ligea's narrator's strangeness. Her beauty is classic and does not enchant the narrator as Ligea's "strange" eyes did. As a result, he ignores Rowena as a person and begins to see her as a shuttle to get to Ligea again. He poisons her and catalyzes her death, believing her unaware of the imminent danger she faces. However, Rowena is aware that something is wrong. She has seen visions and shadows but the narrator is condescending and passes this off as the ravings of a sick woman. On the other hand, Hawthorne also shows this sense of superiority and deception in Alymer's actions. Alymer had concocted a plan to remove the Georgians' birthmark early in the story. He carried out different experiments without Georgina's permission and if she hadn't found his science journal and confronted him, he wouldn't have told her. The experiments Alymer planned could have cost Georgina her life, but Alymer did not find it necessary to tell her this, this demonstrates the objectification that occurs due to her pursuit of beauty. The birthmark and, in turn, Gerogina have become an object for Alymer to experiment with. Alymer takes a stand to play God