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I have constantly adored film and TV soundtracks. Regularly they acquaint me with composers I haven't known about before and give a fascinating assortment of tunes and specialists with a typical state of mind or topic. Soundtracks have turned out to be more crucial these days as they provide assistance in developing the tone and temperament of the film. If music truly is as basic to setting the right emotion in the movie/series, is this not something that ought to be regulated by the same creative director behind the whole venture? So, while going through the novels, the reader himself becomes the director creating different images in his mind. In the same way, while reading Carmilla, I, becoming the director, have chosen three songs (introduction, middle and climax part) that would fit in this novel; somehow giving the directions to the film. After Laura meets Carmilla, Laura begins to catch strange feelings for Carmilla; sometimes of love and sometimes of hatred. Laura says “I had no distinct thoughts about her while such scenes lasted, but I was conscious of a love growing into adoration, and also of abhorrence. This I know is paradox, but I can make no other attempt to explain the feeling”. (Le Fanu 22). Here she has a contradictory thought on Carmilla which can be clearly expressed by the song I have chosen; “I hate you, I love you”. Moreover, as the song goes on, there is a line “Don’t want to, but I can’t put” (Gnash, “I hate you, I love you”) which portrays the situation of Laura where she says “I used to wish to extricate myself; but my energies seemed to fail me”. (Le Fanu 22). She tries to rescue herself from Carmilla but all in vain. This song will help a reader/viewer better understand the feelings of admiration and condemnation Laura has for

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