Below are sure facts on the novel titled The Castle Of Otranto By Horace Walpole:-
- The Castle of Otranto is written during era where dungeons were prisons
- The Castle of Otranto is a Gothic fiction written by Horace Walpole 1717-1797
- Horace Walpole was an English writer
- The author’s other work is The Mysterious Mother (1768)
- The Castle of Otranto had Prince Manfred attempting to prevent his ancient prophecy
- The Castle of Otranto had a prophecy stating that the castle and his lordship will past fron the present family to the rightful owner
- The messages in the novel The Castle of Otranto are tyranny, incest, supremacy of power, love, intolerance, crime and deserved punishments
- The story relates with the rampart occurrences of power struggle among royal families
- The novel has characters such as Lady Hippolita, Prince Manfred, Rev. Ft. Jerome, Theodore, Marquis Frederic, Matilda, Isabella
- The Castle of Otranto has its setting in the castle and its environs
- The Castle of Otranto was made a movie in 1977 by Jan Svankmajer
- The Castle of Otranto is similar to Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Height, Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bram Stroker’s Dracula
- The Castle of Otranto and The Mystery of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe are both Gothic fiction with the trait of mystery.
- While the mystery in The Castle of Otranto was the prophecy come-true, the mystery in The Mystery of Udolpho was portrayed through Emily’s strange hearings
- What led to Prince Manfred’s tragedy? Pride and temper
- The theme of man dominance implies what? Male are supreme to female
