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Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Despite having mixed feelings about this marriage, everyone went with it along with the questionable prophecy.
        
        With that being said, this prophecy seemed to be the center around the idea of keeping a bloodline alive, but there is more to it or just a dubious way to go about.
    - - She saw Conrad to be too young to marry and he was too 'dispositional' at the moment to be married off.
    - - Pg. 8 "She felt no concern for the death of young Conrad, except commiseration, and she was not sorry to be delivered from a marriage which had promised her little felicity, either from her destined bridegroom, or from the severe temper of Manfred, who, though had distinguished her by great indulgence, had imprinted her mind with terror, from his causeless rigour to such amiable princesses as Hippolita and Matilda."
        
        If she was not afraid of Manfred, she would have gone to hell rather than marry Conrad. She knew she was not going to be happy marrying Conrad.
  - - - Pg.9 "...never reflecting how enormous the disproportion was between the marble helmet that had been in the church, and that of steel before their eyes; nor how impossible it was for a youth seemingly not twenty, to wield a piece of armour of so prodigious a weight."
        
        The mob not using common sense to distinguish on how a teenager could take marble helmet from a statue to kill Conrad when he was clearly killed by an actual steel one.
        
        This adds onto Manfred's own hysteria as he now believes the peasant to be a necromancer rather than think radiational about the situation.
      - The blind hysteria created here can be similar to what was created in the Crucible or in the actual events of the Salem Witch Trials, a book where the era was centered in colonizing North America and heavily believed in witchcraft.
    - - Pg. 9 "Yet recollecting himself, with a mixture of grace and humility, he disengaged himself from Manfred's grip, and then with an obeisance, which discovered more jealousy of innocence than dismay, he asked, with respect, of what he was guilty?"
        
        Manfred saw the peasant's actions as a threat to his masculinity, fueled by nobility
        
        Pg. 9 "Manfred, more enraged at the vigour, however decently exerted, with which the young man had shaken off his hold, than appeased by his submission, ordered his attendants to seize him, and, if he had not been withheld by his friends whom he invited to the nuptials, would have poignarded the peasant in their arms."
  - - - Gives no shets about Conrad at this point
      - Only thinks about his bloodline despite the fact that his son just died, making him sound desperate and show how disposable people are to him
      - Unwanted advanced onto Isabella pukes