Boekverslag: The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto.
Chapter 1.
Manfred, the prince of Otranto, is married to Hippolita. They have two children, a girl Matilda and a boy Conrad. Unfortunately Hippolita cannot have any more children, so Conrad is the successor. Conrad is contracted to marry the daughter of the marquis of Vicenza, Isabella. Conrad is quite sickly though. On his birthday he is missing all of the sudden. They find him dead. Buried by an enormous helmet, a hundred times larger than a casque for a human being. He was completely dashed to pieces. Everybody was very shocked. A young peasant whom was drown to it by the rumour, observed that the miraculous helmet was exactly like that on the figure in black marble of Alfonso the Good, one of their former princes, in the church of St. Nicholas. Manfred became very angry with the young peasant, because he dared utter such treason. The young peasant was taken in prison and had to pay with his life.
Manfred was shocked by the death of Conrad mostly because now he had no successor anymore. He came up with a very vicious plan. Because he now had no successor anymore, he had to have another son, but of course with another woman, because Hippolita was infertile. Isabella was supposed to get married to Conrad, but ofcourse he died. Isabella?s father died according to the messages he got, and so he could marry Isabella and have a son with her. And so he visits Isabella and tells her his plan. He tries to have her right away, but she doesn?t want to marry him at all and so she flies away from him. When she flies away Manfred sees a spectre of the portrait of his grandfather, he tells Manfred to follow him, but when he enters a door, Manfred doesn?t have the strength to open it and so he sees no more of the spectre.
Isabella knows a secret way to get to St. Nicholas? church, where she will be safe. It is completely dark in the castle and so she cannot find the trap- door. All of the sudden there is a man with her. He helps her to escape from the tyranny of Manfred. He wants to come with her, but the door fell down and Manfred heard the noise and came right away. He made a fight with the young peasant, because he didn?t understand how the young peasant could escape. Then two of the soldiers of Manfred, who where looking for Isabella, came to him completely afraid. They saw a giant in the great chamber. The peasant offers to take a look, but Manfred doesn?t think it is necessary.
Chapter 2.
Matilda was on her room with her maiden Bainca when she heard a noise down stairs. It was the young peasant and Matilda talked to him. Bianca and she thought he was in love with Isabella, but that wasn?t something Matilda liked even though she didn?t admit that. A servant came in the room then, telling Isabella was found in St. Nicholas.
Jerome, the friar of St. Nicholas, went to Manfred to tell him that lady Isabella was in St. Nicholas. Manfred demanded Jerome to bring her back. Manfred said he would take care of her, but Jerome said Isabella didn?t want to come back. Manfred took Jerome to his chamber to talk to him privately. He tells him his plan of marrying Isabella to have an heir. Fortunately Jerome finds his plan preposterous, but after a long thought, he told Manfred he could marry Isabella if Isabella can be brought to consent. Then Manfred asks Jerome if the young peasant is Isabella?s lover. Jerome is afraid not to satisfy Manfred with his answer and says that there is some connection between the young peasant and Isabella. The young peasant is brought to Manfred. The peasant says his name is Theodore and that he helped Isabella with her escape. But he won?t tell who he
is and so he has to be killed. Matilda and Bianca were in the room too and when Matilda heard that Theodore had to die, she fainted. Jerome is taken to Theodore to talk him into heaven, but when Theodore knelt down on his knees and flipped his shirt down below his shoulder Jerome discovered the mark of a bloody arrow. By that he recognised Theodore as his son. Theodore tells Jerome that his mother is dead and at that time the trampling of horses was heard and a brazen trumpet was suddenly sounded. At the same instance the sable plumes on the enchanted helmet, which still remained at the other end of the court, were tempestuously agitated, and nodded thrice, as if bowed by some invisible wearer.
Chapter 3.
Manfred ordered some of his servants to carry Theodore to the top of the black tower and they had to guard him strictly.
A herald enters and says he comes in the name of his lord, Frederic marquis of Vicenza, to demand his daughter Isabella back. In a few minutes the calvacade arrived too. They were all invited to stay and sleep over. First they talk things over. Manfred offers them, because Frederic is dead, to marry Isabella as soon he is divorced from Hippolita. Then Jerome arrives and tells Manfred of the flight of Isabella. And so everybody is going to look for her.
Matilda went straight to the top of the black tower to free Theodore. The guards were also looking for Isabella so she could enter the tower. She told him he could go and he had to hide in wood and when everything is quiet he had to go to St, Nicholas and take sanctuary. She told him she was Manfred?s daughter and he couldn?t understand that such an evil man had such a lovely daughter. He also told her he wasn?t in love with Isabella at all and swore himself eternally to be her knight. They fell in love???. Theodore went to see his father, but Jerome wasn?t there. With Matilda imprinted in his mind he went to the wood. When he was there he saw somebody walking there. He followed the person and when the person fell, he saw it was Isabella. They went to hide in a cave, but when they were there he saw an armed knight at the mouth of the cavern talking to a peasant. Theodore drew his sward when the knight asked him where Isabella was. The combat wasn't furious, but not long. Theodore wounded the knight in three several places. But then they found out, they have both been in an error. The knight was Frederic, marquis of Vicenza, Isabella?s father. Isabella came straight away and they went back to the castle.
Chapter 4.
The wounds of Frederic weren?t fatal and when he saw Matilda he fell in love with her.
Frederic tells his story. While he was prisoner of the infidels, he had dreamed that his daughter was detained in a castle where she was in danger of the most dreadful misfortunes and that if he obtained his liberty and repaired to a wood near Joppa, he would learn more. He was lucky when the princess of Palestine paid his ransom and he was free to go. For three days he and his servants had wandered in the woods without seeing a human form, but on the night of the third day they found a dying hermit. He told them that when they had done the last offices to this wretched corse, they had to dig under the seventh tree on the left hand of this poor caves and their pains will- and then the man died. They did dug under the tree and the found an enormous sabre. This text was written on it:
Where?er a casque that suits this sward is found,
With perils is thy daughter comapss?d round:
Alfonso?s blood alone can save the maid,
And quiet a long-restless prince?s shade.
Then Manfred, Jerome and part of the troop arrive. Manfred is amazed again by seeing Theodore free and Theodore tells Manfred that Jerome helped him to escape. (Because Manfred wouldn?t hurt Jerome, because he was a friar) Theodore told the story of how he got to the castle. (5 years to Algiers with his mother, she died after 12 months, remained in slavery, delivered by a Christian vessel, captain put him on shore in Sicily, didn?t find his father, only his burned down estate, is told that his father war retired into religion in the kingdom of Naples and so he came to the castle) Manfred released him after that.
Matilda and Isabella were both in love with Theodore and they talk about it to each other and Isabella tells Matilda she can have him, because she knows Theodore is in love with Matilda.
In the mean time, Manfred and Frederic have talked together and Manfred has persuaded Frederic to give him his daughter as soon as he is divorced. Frederic fell in love with Matilda, so he can have Matilda then. Hippolita knows that Manfred wants to divorce him and Isabella also told her that Manfred wants to marry her. Hippolita will take sanctuary. Matilda and Isabella are very unhappy about who they have to marry. Especially Matilda, because she wants to marry Theodore.
Hippolita went to talk to Manfred to tell him she was willing to divorce and Manfred then tells her that Frederic will accept Matilda?s hand and as he spoke those words three drops of blood fell from the nose of Alfonso?s statue. Jerome said to mark this miraculous indication that the blood of Alfonso will never mix with that of Manfred!
Chapter 5.
Manfred was afraid there might be love between Isabella and Theodore, so when he ran into Bianca he offered her jewels to find out if that was true. After that Manfred went to talk to Frederic and then Bianca all of the sudden came running into the chamber screaming she had seen a giant hand. She tells Frederic about the haunted castle and Frederic gets very angry with Manfred and cuts of their plan for the intermarriage of their children.
Frederic went to look for Hippolita in St. Nicholas and when he came there he saw somebody in a long woollen weed. The person came to him and he had fleshless jaws and empty sockets of a skeleton, wrapped in hermit?s cowl. The person told Frederic to forget about Matilda and then vanished. Frederic was completely shocked.
Manfred heard that Theodore went to St.Nicholas with a young woman and assumed it was Isabella. And so he went there and when he saw them talk he walked towards them and stabbed one of them. It wasn?t Isabella, it was Matilda. She was fatally wounded and after she forgave her father for killing her she died. Theodore was in terrible pain because of that.
After all that Jerome told the real story about Theodore and that he was Alfonso?s grandfather. (Jerome married Alfonso?s daughter) And so Theodore becomes the prince of Otranto. His grief was too fresh to admit the thought of another love, and it was not until after frequent discourses with Isabella, of his dear Matilda, that he was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one whom he could forever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
Chapter 1.
Manfred, the prince of Otranto, is married to Hippolita. They have two children, a girl Matilda and a boy Conrad. Unfortunately Hippolita cannot have any more children, so Conrad is the successor. Conrad is contracted to marry the daughter of the marquis of Vicenza, Isabella. Conrad is quite sickly though. On his birthday he is missing all of the sudden. They find him dead. Buried by an enormous helmet, a hundred times larger than a casque for a human being. He was completely dashed to pieces. Everybody was very shocked. A young peasant whom was drown to it by the rumour, observed that the miraculous helmet was exactly like that on the figure in black marble of Alfonso the Good, one of their former princes, in the church of St. Nicholas. Manfred became very angry with the young peasant, because he dared utter such treason. The young peasant was taken in prison and had to pay with his life.
Manfred was shocked by the death of Conrad mostly because now he had no successor anymore. He came up with a very vicious plan. Because he now had no successor anymore, he had to have another son, but of course with another woman, because Hippolita was infertile. Isabella was supposed to get married to Conrad, but ofcourse he died. Isabella?s father died according to the messages he got, and so he could marry Isabella and have a son with her. And so he visits Isabella and tells her his plan. He tries to have her right away, but she doesn?t want to marry him at all and so she flies away from him. When she flies away Manfred sees a spectre of the portrait of his grandfather, he tells Manfred to follow him, but when he enters a door, Manfred doesn?t have the strength to open it and so he sees no more of the spectre.
Isabella knows a secret way to get to St. Nicholas? church, where she will be safe. It is completely dark in the castle and so she cannot find the trap- door. All of the sudden there is a man with her. He helps her to escape from the tyranny of Manfred. He wants to come with her, but the door fell down and Manfred heard the noise and came right away. He made a fight with the young peasant, because he didn?t understand how the young peasant could escape. Then two of the soldiers of Manfred, who where looking for Isabella, came to him completely afraid. They saw a giant in the great chamber. The peasant offers to take a look, but Manfred doesn?t think it is necessary.
Chapter 2.
Matilda was on her room with her maiden Bainca when she heard a noise down stairs. It was the young peasant and Matilda talked to him. Bianca and she thought he was in love with Isabella, but that wasn?t something Matilda liked even though she didn?t admit that. A servant came in the room then, telling Isabella was found in St. Nicholas.
Jerome, the friar of St. Nicholas, went to Manfred to tell him that lady Isabella was in St. Nicholas. Manfred demanded Jerome to bring her back. Manfred said he would take care of her, but Jerome said Isabella didn?t want to come back. Manfred took Jerome to his chamber to talk to him privately. He tells him his plan of marrying Isabella to have an heir. Fortunately Jerome finds his plan preposterous, but after a long thought, he told Manfred he could marry Isabella if Isabella can be brought to consent. Then Manfred asks Jerome if the young peasant is Isabella?s lover. Jerome is afraid not to satisfy Manfred with his answer and says that there is some connection between the young peasant and Isabella. The young peasant is brought to Manfred. The peasant says his name is Theodore and that he helped Isabella with her escape. But he won?t tell who he
is and so he has to be killed. Matilda and Bianca were in the room too and when Matilda heard that Theodore had to die, she fainted. Jerome is taken to Theodore to talk him into heaven, but when Theodore knelt down on his knees and flipped his shirt down below his shoulder Jerome discovered the mark of a bloody arrow. By that he recognised Theodore as his son. Theodore tells Jerome that his mother is dead and at that time the trampling of horses was heard and a brazen trumpet was suddenly sounded. At the same instance the sable plumes on the enchanted helmet, which still remained at the other end of the court, were tempestuously agitated, and nodded thrice, as if bowed by some invisible wearer.
Chapter 3.
Manfred ordered some of his servants to carry Theodore to the top of the black tower and they had to guard him strictly.
A herald enters and says he comes in the name of his lord, Frederic marquis of Vicenza, to demand his daughter Isabella back. In a few minutes the calvacade arrived too. They were all invited to stay and sleep over. First they talk things over. Manfred offers them, because Frederic is dead, to marry Isabella as soon he is divorced from Hippolita. Then Jerome arrives and tells Manfred of the flight of Isabella. And so everybody is going to look for her.
Matilda went straight to the top of the black tower to free Theodore. The guards were also looking for Isabella so she could enter the tower. She told him he could go and he had to hide in wood and when everything is quiet he had to go to St, Nicholas and take sanctuary. She told him she was Manfred?s daughter and he couldn?t understand that such an evil man had such a lovely daughter. He also told her he wasn?t in love with Isabella at all and swore himself eternally to be her knight. They fell in love???. Theodore went to see his father, but Jerome wasn?t there. With Matilda imprinted in his mind he went to the wood. When he was there he saw somebody walking there. He followed the person and when the person fell, he saw it was Isabella. They went to hide in a cave, but when they were there he saw an armed knight at the mouth of the cavern talking to a peasant. Theodore drew his sward when the knight asked him where Isabella was. The combat wasn't furious, but not long. Theodore wounded the knight in three several places. But then they found out, they have both been in an error. The knight was Frederic, marquis of Vicenza, Isabella?s father. Isabella came straight away and they went back to the castle.
Chapter 4.
The wounds of Frederic weren?t fatal and when he saw Matilda he fell in love with her.
Frederic tells his story. While he was prisoner of the infidels, he had dreamed that his daughter was detained in a castle where she was in danger of the most dreadful misfortunes and that if he obtained his liberty and repaired to a wood near Joppa, he would learn more. He was lucky when the princess of Palestine paid his ransom and he was free to go. For three days he and his servants had wandered in the woods without seeing a human form, but on the night of the third day they found a dying hermit. He told them that when they had done the last offices to this wretched corse, they had to dig under the seventh tree on the left hand of this poor caves and their pains will- and then the man died. They did dug under the tree and the found an enormous sabre. This text was written on it:
Where?er a casque that suits this sward is found,
With perils is thy daughter comapss?d round:
Alfonso?s blood alone can save the maid,
And quiet a long-restless prince?s shade.
Then Manfred, Jerome and part of the troop arrive. Manfred is amazed again by seeing Theodore free and Theodore tells Manfred that Jerome helped him to escape. (Because Manfred wouldn?t hurt Jerome, because he was a friar) Theodore told the story of how he got to the castle. (5 years to Algiers with his mother, she died after 12 months, remained in slavery, delivered by a Christian vessel, captain put him on shore in Sicily, didn?t find his father, only his burned down estate, is told that his father war retired into religion in the kingdom of Naples and so he came to the castle) Manfred released him after that.
Matilda and Isabella were both in love with Theodore and they talk about it to each other and Isabella tells Matilda she can have him, because she knows Theodore is in love with Matilda.
In the mean time, Manfred and Frederic have talked together and Manfred has persuaded Frederic to give him his daughter as soon as he is divorced. Frederic fell in love with Matilda, so he can have Matilda then. Hippolita knows that Manfred wants to divorce him and Isabella also told her that Manfred wants to marry her. Hippolita will take sanctuary. Matilda and Isabella are very unhappy about who they have to marry. Especially Matilda, because she wants to marry Theodore.
Hippolita went to talk to Manfred to tell him she was willing to divorce and Manfred then tells her that Frederic will accept Matilda?s hand and as he spoke those words three drops of blood fell from the nose of Alfonso?s statue. Jerome said to mark this miraculous indication that the blood of Alfonso will never mix with that of Manfred!
Chapter 5.
Manfred was afraid there might be love between Isabella and Theodore, so when he ran into Bianca he offered her jewels to find out if that was true. After that Manfred went to talk to Frederic and then Bianca all of the sudden came running into the chamber screaming she had seen a giant hand. She tells Frederic about the haunted castle and Frederic gets very angry with Manfred and cuts of their plan for the intermarriage of their children.
Frederic went to look for Hippolita in St. Nicholas and when he came there he saw somebody in a long woollen weed. The person came to him and he had fleshless jaws and empty sockets of a skeleton, wrapped in hermit?s cowl. The person told Frederic to forget about Matilda and then vanished. Frederic was completely shocked.
Manfred heard that Theodore went to St.Nicholas with a young woman and assumed it was Isabella. And so he went there and when he saw them talk he walked towards them and stabbed one of them. It wasn?t Isabella, it was Matilda. She was fatally wounded and after she forgave her father for killing her she died. Theodore was in terrible pain because of that.
After all that Jerome told the real story about Theodore and that he was Alfonso?s grandfather. (Jerome married Alfonso?s daughter) And so Theodore becomes the prince of Otranto. His grief was too fresh to admit the thought of another love, and it was not until after frequent discourses with Isabella, of his dear Matilda, that he was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one whom he could forever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
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