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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights comes alive in the Gothic tradition. The wind and the rain, the rolling moor, are employed as leitmotifs. Dark and stormy characters brood in the shadows of their pasts, the very spectres of haunting tragedy. The popularity of the novel attests to its status as a true classic: students love it despite having read [...]
The Tomb
I discovered Lovecraft when I was 16. I read The Tomb on the night before my English exam and it’s an experience etched in my mind. I could quote from it easily although I read it only once – in the shallow light of a sputtering candle. I think the almost Gothic atmosphere and the [...]
Notes from Underground
It examines the tragicomedy that is life. The unnamed, enigmatic narrator is sometimes pettish and trivial, yet pertinent to our modern society’s condition. By going down to the underground, literally, he willingly alienates self from society which he feels has no place for the likes of him, which he brushes off with ease. Society willingly [...]
