before this class I didn’t have much of an idea of what “Gothic Literature” was but I came to class with an open mind. before “The Castle of Ortanto” their weren’t any novels that brought provocative thoughts and after reading “The Castle of Ortanto” it makes you understand in how the story was wrote and how it pushes cultural significance during this period of time. In the story we read about Manfred a king in which will stop at nothing to protect his throne, he arrange his son Conrad to wed Isabella so they can have kids and keep his family in power but instead his son is killed by a enormous helment. Manfred tries to wed Isabella himself now in order to save his fear of an ancient curse. Manfred wife has to accept and deal with her husband marring other women in which he begins to obsessed with. The story uncovers “victimized female” and sexual entrapment and also an atomosphere of horror as well. “The Castle of Ortanto” definitely brings into light of a lot of issues during that time period in which a lot wasn’t spoke of. what makes this novel so important to gothic literature is the fact of the different elements that is brought together to help create this world in which we can imagine and undertand the darkness that enables culture or society.
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(Briana Estrada -comment on response 1)
I liked how you say you came into this class of gothic literature with an open mind. It is relatable on the idea of what gothic was /used to be viewed by us as the student and readers, because for example like you elaborate in your response on Castle of Otranto; the major ideas of women being ” victimized” and “entrapped ” is not something we would be considered a theme that we would expect from “gothic” literature. We are seeing how this idea is common throughout many gothic works.