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His appalling fall from grace embraces blasphemy, black magic, torture, rape, and murder, and places his very soul in jeopardy. Lewis's extraordinary tale drew on folklore, legendary ghost stories, and contemporary dread inspired by the terrors of the French Revolution. Its excesses shocked the reading public and it was condemned as obscene. The novel continues to beguile and shock readers today with its gruesome catalogue of iniquities, while at the same time giving a profound insight into the deep anxieties experienced by British citizens during one of the most turbulent periods in the nation's history.
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The Monk first issued in three volumes in by Matthew Lewis is one of the pinnacles of the Gothic literary movement. Given the age of the work, The Monk is surprisingly highly readable yet today and Lewis opens the book with a stunning contrast. Crowds have gathered in Madrid for the third sermon of Ambrosio, the abbot of the Capuchin monastery. When he remembered the enthusiasm which his discourse had excited, his heart swelled with rapture, and his imagination presented him with splendid visions of aggrandizement. In the early pages of The Monk among the members of the crowd clamoring to hear Ambrosio speak is a young woman, Antonia.
Having just arrived in Madrid with her aunt to seek financial succor from relatives, Antonia quickly comes to the attention of a cavalier, Don Lorenzo, who pledges to be of what assistance he can be to the young woman. Lorenzo finds the young woman's "artlessness" and "innocence" beguiling, but unfortunately, he is not alone in his attraction to the young woman. Another, however, does not have the same benevolent intent toward the woman as does Don Lorenzo. The structure of The Monk is quite intriguing. Rather than present readers with an evil, hypocritical figure to begin with, Lewis makes Ambrosio a vulnerable character who suffers a fall--a fall reminiscent of that of Adam and Eve from Eden, complete with a central role for a poisonous viper slithering in the foliage.
The source of Ambrosio's temptation comes, initially, from an odd choice--a novitiate at the monastery, Rosario. Generally keeping his face hidden, shy, reclusive, and at most times melancholy at best but intensely worshipful of Ambrosio, Lewis' revelation of the truth about Rosario and his eventual fate is both melodramatic and the kind of revelation that would have readers near the end of the eighteenth century shocked and in some cases appalled. Such elements, however, obviously led to the novel's great popularity and success, scandalous though it may have been.
Like the most successful of writer's today of thrillers, having totally captivated his reader with Ambrosio's opening collapse of values, Lewis shifts gears to a totally different set of characters and events to move his story forward. With the stated intent of revealing how Don Lorenzo's sister, Agnes, is installed in a convent, Lewis spends numerous pages providing his reader to a rambling but eventually connected set of exploits.
At the outset is a narrative by Don Raymond, the Marquis de las Cisternas, who tells his companion, Lorenzo, about encountering sinister, murderous banditti waylaying innocent travelers. It is a tale of blood and intrigue that rivals, but predates Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn by years. As extraordinary as this portion of Don Raymond's account is, Lewis has his narrator surpass himself with a whopper of a ghost story about a "bleeding nun" that walks the halls of a German castle in Lindenberg with a conclusion that is as likely to rivet and creep out readers as much today as it did in A figure from thirteenth century Christian folklore, the Wandering Jew, according to legend, taunted Jesus on the cross and in turn was cursed to forever wander the earth, incapable of dying or staying in any one place longer than a fortnight until the second coming of Christ.
With the life story of the "bleeding nun," Lewis' imaginary tale achieves new heights of explicitness for the times. Her's is an outrageous tale of sexual promiscuity and murder that includes criticism of and a condemnation of women being forced into convent life at too early of an age.
Her tale is made all the more shocking by the fact that the phantom's actual name is Beatrice. Ironically, Beatrice means "she who blesses" and in Dante's The Divine Comedy it is Beatrice who guides the poet through his journey in the last four canti of Purgatory and through the work's final volume, Paradise.
Lewis' Beatrice is far from a divine figure in either her living or dead carnation , but without question the narrative from the "bleeding nun" certainly adds a chilling as well as titillating and scandalous element to The Monk. In spite of its age, there is nothing dry about The Monk. Lewis keeps his plot, even when it appears to digress, interesting and along with the sex and immorality to be found in the story, frustrated romance plagues a couple of his male characters. In Chapter V Lewis heightens the novel's tension by focusing upon the evilness of a character that until that point is a minor player, the prioress of the abbey.
While upping the character's importance to the story's plot, Lewis reveals that she is "haughty, inflexible, superstitious, and revengeful