Sunday, February 13, 2005
Old English Baron (Pgs. 1-45)
I had missed feelings about the reading. At some points, and I still am, confused about the characters and I found the author's diction sometimes hard to understand; but I did enjoy the section where Edmund stays in the "haunted" apartment. From the preface, I read that this is a Gothic story, but what exactly makes a story gothic? Is it just a specific time period that the story was written in, or does it contain certain elements that categorize the story as Gothic?
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I thought the reading started out slowly, but I enjoyed it more and more as it continued. Once the storyline and action started to pick up, I was more interested in where the story was going to go.
One of the quotes that really struck me and stuck inmy mind was on page 19: "He had a growing passion for the Lady Emma, the Baron's only daughter; and, as love is eagle-eyed, he saw, or fancied he saw her cast an eye of preference on Edmund."
I had never really thought about love that way, but after reading it, it made me realize how true it really is - being in love makes you construe thoughts from the most inconsequential actions.
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