Instead this felt a little like symbolism gone wild. The cover of this book was such that I expected a peacock to feature. What were the men’s purposes in this novel? I also couldn’t work out why I should care about David and Thomas. The torture might have been intended to make things feel Gothic and gloomy, but instead I just felt revulsion. The detailed gore at the beginning of the novel was cringe worthy and my feeling was that it was unnecessary. When Dorothea sets out to map Ruth’s skull she is forced to decide whether she believes in Ruth’s truthfulness or her own ‘scientific’ mind. Dorothea is a well bred woman with a fascination for phrenology (skull physiology that predicts character traits). Ruth is in prison for murder and is awaiting hanging.
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