GGRC10H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gothic Fiction, Jane Austen, John William Polidori
15 Apr 2014
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1764: horace walpole, the castle of otranto (broadview: manfred the lord of the castle of otranto. He is the father of conrad and matilda, and the husband of hippolita. After his son is killed by the falling helmet, he becomes obsessed with the idea of ending his marriage with hippolita in pursuit of the much younger isabella, who was supposed to marry his son. Manfred serves as the prime antagonist of the novel; he is the dictatorial ruler and father that drives the plot forward in a depiction of deranged cruelty visited upon his children. [1: hippolita the wife of manfred and the mother of conrad and matilda. After having lost her son, she is left with just matilda to combat the tyrannical turn of mind that her husband displays. Manfred intends to divorce her due to her sterility and on the grounds that their marriage is in fact false because they are actually related.
