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Walpole thought that portraying the first wife as an extreme doormat was just what the story needed. Manfred tells his first wife the plan and she basically accepts being pushed aside for a younger woman without a peep.

How does having another son fit in with stopping the prophecy? Can't tell you.don't and and the baby above are still confused. Well Manfred decides that he can best avoid the prophecy by divorcing his first wife and marrying his dead son’s fiancé so that she can give him a proper heir. So anyway, the son’s death leads Manfred to believe that an ancient prophecy is coming to pass which states that his ownership of the castle will cease “should the owner be grown too large to inhabit it.”. Well reading the book won't help.BECAUSE IT IS NEVER EXPLAINED. You might be wondering where the giant helmet came from and how it happened to fall. As the story begins, Manfred’s day gets off to a really bad start when his sickly son gets crushed by a massive helmet that falls on him inexplicably from above. The book centers around Manfred, who is the lord of a Castle Otranto. Second, as the first gothic novel, it has the additional distinction of being the first gothic novel to really, really suck. First, that there was at least one really, really crappy book published in the 18th century.

Now, in fairness, it should be noted that the book was written in 1764 and is widely considered to be the first ever Gothic novel. In other words, suckage on a grand and towering scale. No, I mean planets and stars being pulled toward the event horizon of a black hole suckage. From this book I learned that classics CAN ALSO REALLY, REALLY SUCK!!! Now before continuing, I would like to be clear that when I say this book sucked, I don’t mean “it was well written but kinda dry and boring”sucked. |a Inheritance and succession |v Fiction.“CLASSICS” can teach us a great deal about things like history, culture, customs and different literary styles. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto is a founding work of Gothic fiction. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this unlawful union, as the curse placed on Manfred's ancestor, who usurped the lawful Prince of Otranto, begins to unfold. His calculating father, Manfred, fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's bride himself-despite the fact he is already married. |a On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstances.