High School Student

Karina Canas English 2323 2/15/12 elfin vs. Natural Ever been watching television and out of nowhere a picture cat or some other object bowling pin without anyone moving it? Was it some supernatural power that caused it to fall want a ghost that is haunting a house or was the picture frame just placed wrong? The Castle of Otranto has many orphic events that eliminate all throughout the novel, merely not all of them are express to be supernatural. Some of the events idler actually be explained, scarcely others cant in that locationfore are said to be supernatural.The very first base thing that happens in the novel is the giant helmet larger than any casque of all time made for human beings that had fallen randomly out of the sky and low-spirited Conrad. There is no reasonable explanation to how anyone could have dropped it on Conrad because it was that gigantic that no one could have lifted it. One of the events that can be explained is when Manfred is trying to chase after Isabella but stops when the moon presented to his weed the plumes of the fatal helmet, which rose to the height of the windows, waving backwards and forwards in a tempestuous manner, and accompanied with a hollow and rustling respectable.The reflection of the moon casted a shadow of the helmet and the wind caused the shadow to shape up to be waving. The rustling sound was about likely made by the animals or the guards walking. This event appears to be natural though it does ante up the place setting a scary atmosphere. Falling photograph frames are somewhat normal, but Horace Walpole took it a little farther and keyed the portrait of Manfreds grandfather expressed a deep sigh, and heaved its breast. Not only did his grandfather in the portrait sighed, but it also quit its panel, and descended on the floor with a grave and melancholy air and then motion for Manfred to follow him.Just like in Harry Potter moving portraits that talk are fictions, but it is a very effectiv e way to raise the climax and give the reader a feeling of mystery and raise the climax. Especially when he finally gets to the door of the chamber and it is clapped to with violence by an invisible move over. The door is not actually held by an invisible hand. It is most likely locked up thats why Manfred has a hard time col the door. Later while Manfred is searching for Isabella, his guards Diego and Jaquez manage to get the door unfastened and find what they believe to be a giant lying down, for the fundament and leg were stretched at length on the floor.This giant could perchance be the owner of the giant helmet at the beginning of the novel, but there is still no explanation of how the giant got to the chamber without anyone noticing it. Even the guards mention how the giant is supernatural for they suggest for Manfred to send for the chaplain, and have the castle exorcised because it appears to be enchanted. Towards the end of the novel Frederic mentions that while he was in the lumber he found a hermit who St. Nicholas had appeared to and revealed a secret that he was to disclose to mortal man only on the day of his death-bed.The darkness of a dead saint is supernatural because the dead dont come back to life. When Manfred offers Frederic to marry his daughter Matilda three drops of blood wild from the nose of Alfonsos statue meaning that the blood of Alfonso will never ripple with that of Manfred. There has been many cases where it is said that statues bleed or cry, and even though there are proofs there is no logically explanation to this events other than the fact that they are supernatural.As mention there are many hugger-mugger events which cannot be explained, but give a sense of scariness in the novel. The most effective in mystery are the giant helmet which gives intrigues the reader to retain on reading to try and solve the mystery of it and the grandfather attack out of his portrait and leading Manfred to the giant who could possib ly the owner of the mysterious helmet. Supernatural and natural events are both great to create mystery that sometimes it is hard to tell them apart.