Hello =) I need help with my essay for The Monk since I have difficulty comprehending the story. I did read it but many parts were too twisted or something I could not understand.. This is my essay question:
The Monk is ‘daring in its treatment of sexual fantasy and violence; it is shocking in the luridly sensational sense as well as in its radical insights into criminal psychology; and it is gothic in its presentation of a dark subterranean world filled with supernatural terrors and the odours of death’. (Coral Ann Howells) Is there a particular element in the above that serves a more significant and relevant purpose than any other in Lewis’s novel?
Any help of some sort will do. Thank you!