![]() Three years later, Immalee, now named Isidora, has been restored to her family in Madrid. She falls in love with him and begs him to stay with her, but he departs. He tries to destroy her innocence, showing her the shortcomings of human societies and religions. She is visited by Melmoth, who tells her he comes from "the world that suffers". In reality, Immalee is a castaway who grew up alone on the island, isolated from humanity. The Tale of the Indian tells of an island in the Indian Ocean which is rumored to be haunted by a white goddess named "Immalee". Melmoth, or Interior of a Dominican Convent in Madrid, illustrating Alonzo Moncada's story from the novel. In exchange for food and shelter, Adonijah compels Monçada to transcribe a manuscript for him: "the Tale of the Indian". He meets a venerable Jewish scholar, Adonijah, who lives in a secret chamber decorated with the skeletons of his own family. A fire breaks out, and in the confusion Monçada escapes. There he is visited in his cell by Melmoth, who says he will help him escape. ![]() Monçada is taken to the prison of the Inquisition. The escape plan is a trap and Juan is killed. He is mistreated by the monks, and his brother Juan arranges for him to escape with the help of a fellow monk, a parricide. He is saved from drowning by the sole survivor of the wreck, a Spaniard, Alonzo Monçada.Īlonzo Monçada tells his story ( The Tale of the Spaniard), in which his family confines him to a monastery. John tries to approach him, but slips and falls into the sea. He is visited by Melmoth in a dream, and later sees Melmoth laughing at a shipwreck. ![]() Melmoth visits him there, and offers to free him, but Stanton refuses and escapes.įollowing his uncle's wish, John burns the Melmoth portrait. Stanton's search for Melmoth is deemed to be madness and he is sent to a madhouse. At his uncle's funeral, John is told an old family story about a stranger called Stanton, who arrived looking for "Melmoth the Traveller" decades earlier.Ī manuscript left by Stanton describes his first finding Melmoth laughing at the sight of two lovers who have been struck by lightning, and hearing of a wedding at which Melmoth was an uninvited guest: the bride died and the bridegroom went mad. He finds a portrait of a mysterious ancestor called "Melmoth" the portrait is dated 1646. John Melmoth, a student in Dublin, visits his dying uncle.
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