The Bride of Lammermoor | Techniques
It has been noted that The Bride of Lammermoor is the most tragic of Scott's novels. When thinking of tragedy as a genre, whether in the Shakespearian mode or the novelistic form, one tends to categorize the work as either a tragedy of fate or of character (Romeo and Juliet is usually classed as an example of the former, while Hamlet, with the hero's indecision as the tragic flaw, as an instance of the latter). This novel, however, can be judged as a tragedy of both fate and character. It seems fated that the families of the lovers, like the Montagues and Capulets,...
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