... in harmony with its reader's heart. Amongst this confused atmosphere of escalating foreboding, the reader's tension and suspense are skilfully amplified. Intimidating is the erratical shatter[ing]' of the blue-white scar' upon the group, menacing is the chant as it swells with threat to desire, thick, urgent, blind' The reader becomes gripped in expectance of the inevitable dramatic climax, the ... 's life. The strange attendant creatures, like servants to their master, busied themselves' with silvering the line of his cheek' whilst a coat of pearls' transforms him into an effigy of scul...

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• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate