... many events that take place in the novel that are vague and lacking in detail making readers never understand or anticipate what is going to occur. For example is the ambiguity of the ending where there is no sense of closure and where the central and crucial body is still left concealed in the disused well. The fragmented narrative, an overtone ... ...

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... in respect to emotions, and rebel "against a mechanistic or atomistic view of the world and relations, in favour of recovering an earlier organic model- (Kilgour, 11). The moral and emotional ambiguity and search for meaning that more strongly characterise the modern Gothic enabling characters, such as Lestat, to work through evil and darkness to arrive at a personal moral code that can ... ...

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