... Monk" there are an abundance of females showing both female "shameless harlotry" and "trembling innocence". "The Monk" itself houses examples of stereotypes in principal. Antonia is a gothic heroine consumed with trembling innocence, weak, "never unveils in public", pure and chaste and without hope in the world, mirrored well by Ellena ... letter to Don Raymond. "Return if you love me" being the most poignant phrase included. The second characterisation of woman that I have found in my study of the Gothic Tradition do indeed so these signs of shameless harlotry, however, in "The Monk" we...

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