Savaged by critics for its blasphemy and obscenity <strong>The Monk</strong> shows thediabolical decline of Ambrosio a worthy Capuchin superior who is tempted b... » 

Savaged by critics for its blasphemy and obscenity The Monk shows thediabolical decline of Ambrosio a worthy Capuchin superior who is tempted byMatilda a young girl who has entered his monastery disguised as a boy andeventually succumbs to magic murder incest and torture. A brilliantexamination of violent and erotic impulses The Monk was greatly admired by theMarquis de Sade as well as Byron Poe Flaubert Hawthorne and Emily Bronte. «