Yet his silence lasted longer than even grief could occasion. The horror of the spectacle, the ignorance of all around how this misfortune had happened, and above all, the tremendous phenomenon before him, took away the Prince’s speech. For instance, from the descent of the enormous helmet to the shattering of the castle walls by the immense and reinvigorated supernatural anatomy of Alfonso, Walpole crafted his story so as to achieve a suspension of reason within enclosed settings, where readers might feel as lost and disoriented as the characters entrapped by the supernatural world. The uniqueness of this novel is that Walpole uses unique objects and symbols to depict divine justice (Carso 121). Walpole portrays that an ancestral crime and curse and a haunted interior crammed with supernatural appliances such as portraits that stare back and music that floats from ghostly instruments attest to the purity and orthodoxy of the novel’s formal Gothic features.
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