Essays about: "The Castle of Otranto"

Found 3 essays containing the words The Castle of Otranto.

1. 1. What Walpole did to Shakespeare's Women : A Comparison between Female Characters in Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto and William Shakespeare’s Othello

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Lova Hesselbom; [2024]
   Keywords : Shakespeare; feminism; Walpole; comparison;

   Abstract : In this essay I will compare the views on women in William Shakespeare’s Othello and Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, looking mainly at the gendered structures of patriarchal caregivers, freedom of marriage as well as domestic violence. I am doing this in order to point out the possibility of Walpole’s influence on Shakespeare by a literary comparison. READ MORE

3. 2. "I Am Home" : Architecture as the antagonist in The Haunting of Hill House and The Castle of Otranto in relation to madness

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Stéphanie Persson; [2023]
   Keywords : Shirley Jackson; The Haunting of Hill House; Horace Walpole; The Castle of Otranto; Madness; Mental Illness; Antagonist; Anthropomorphism; Gothic Literature; Gothic Architecture; Gothic Locales;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to evaluate to what extent Hill House and Otranto castle are main antagonists in The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and The Castle of Otranto (1764) respectively in relation to how madness is described and the effect that the buildings have on the deterioration of the characters’ mental states. To do this I explain in what way the main characters Eleanor and Manfred are portrayed as being mentally unstable, and then how the portrayal of the locales in each novel further affects the symptoms that they experience, particularly through the lens of anthropomorphism. READ MORE

4. 3. Gothic Horror and The Folktale : A Formalist Approach to Horace Walpole’’s The Castle of Otranto

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Author : Sarah Lundwall; [2013]
   Keywords : Formalism; Horace Walpole; the Castle of Otranto; Vladimir Propp; Gothic Horror;

   Abstract : This essay examines the structural relationship between the folktale and the gothic novel with focus on characterization. This study will present a clearer definition of the now problematized gothic genre and show how newer genres are influenced by the older ones. READ MORE