1. Gothic Literature and Religion
... 's forehead, it had seared it- had burned into the flesh as though it had been a piece of hot metal'37. The heavy hellish and visual imagery give connotations of the inferno of torment, a sign of her eternal punishment, 'Even the almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must wear this mark... until judgement day'38. Stoker also portrays this theme in the 'punishment ... ...
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