Was chatting about Tess murdering Alec as a top 5 murder, but what are the other contenders for Top Literary Murders???
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However, Heathcliff gloats that Isabella admired this cruelty: so, while not murder, it's possibly the most disgusting wedding-night foreplay in Victorian literature (if anyone wants to start THAT competition on here 😬)
Mephistopheles's murder Baucis and Philemon?
(Does this one still sting? Does it show?)
(Also cannot believe no one has mentioned this yet.)
And what about BULSTRODE > RAFFLES?
I feel like I've got three of the top three right here.
And it’s not a central as that, but I appreciate Lydgate’s ex killing her husband onstage, and Lydgate refusing to believe it because she’s French and hot
Godfrey Ablewhite being murdered by [Redacted]
in my beloved Moonstone by dear Mr Wilkie Collins
Angel is infinitely more murderable.
Alec only plays with 'devilish' imagery (he's basically good-hearted, playing the 'bad boy' to pull the girls). Angel is profoundly malign.
https://www.academia.edu/36865790/Body_and_Soul_Love_and_Murder
And obvs, the other answer is *Clarissa*. (Yes, she’s murdered.)
I will not be taking questions. 🤪🤣🤪
FIRST MURDERER: Let it come down.
[They set upon Banquo]
Heathcliff and Catherine…..
Les gommes
Murders in the Rue Morgue
My all time favorite reading murder experience was Raskolnikov grabbing the axe & creeping up the steps…
And representative of all the race;
Although 'tis true that you turn'd out a Tory at
Last—yours has lately been a common case;
And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at?
With all the Lakers, in and out of place?
And if you argue that libretto is not literature, then Blanche’s murder in “Le roi s'amuse” (The King Has Fun) by Hugo
P.S. so happy to see you here, missed your content since I left the other place
Dark, and darkly funny, especially when Lydgate still pursues her.
Middlemarch benefits when perceived from the darkly funny point of view. Otherwise it’s too tedious