Gothic

This text to me started off very gothic and it wasn’t quite what i had expected. Reading the story and setting about the old house and queer and ere settings originally lead me to believe that this story was going to follow the traditional Gothic stories that we are use to reading, where there is a twist and turn at every corner. Also within the setting is some type of monster or beast that has to be beaten or something/someone is hiding within the tress and the dark corner of the house. But in this short story the queer and Gothic setting wasn’t the main focus of the story. In this story the gothic and queer moments is within the characters them self and the setting. Starting with the idea of women being repressed by men. Charlotte was repressed by her husband who wouldn’t let her do what she wanted, also by her brother who agreed with John her husband. Also the idea of mental illness, this is something that we only inferred because of actions in our previous texts, such as Frankenstein where we inferred that Victor has some sort of mental illness by building a creature from dead body parts. Or the story of Jeckyll and Hyde where we inferred that Jeckyll had something wrong with him. In this text the idea of mental illness is concrete within the text and is the main reason that this story was written.