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    Unhappy Help for Matthew Lewis' 'The Monk'?

    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!

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    I haven't read it, so I couldn't help. It is a book that intrigues me though.
    According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
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    I've read it but I can't help since I don't remember much, except that it was a cracker. Hope there are others who will be more helpful. I'd recommend it to you anytime, Kev.
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    Thank you mona_amon, would you recommend me to anyone who knows much of it?

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