Fiction Reviews: The Castle Of Otranto

 

In the Castle of Otranto lives Manfred and his family. 

A few days before the marriage of Conrad to princess Isabella.

The father is nervous and impatient, there is a prophecy who says he must have children in order to maintain his privileges.

Conrad disappears, he will be found dead crushed to death by a giant helmet, close to the church of Saint Nicholas.

Manfred is married to Hippolita who cannot have children, he decides to marry Isabella on his own, but she does not consent to marry Manfred and runs away, thanks to the supernatural appearance of the swaying feathers of a giant helmet and then by the moving portrait of his grandfather Alfonso.

The escape of Isabella is supported by Friar Jerome and Theodore, a local peasant; a secret passage connects the castle with the church.

Manfred discovers that Isabella is hidden in the church, he tells the friar Jerome that he wants to marry Isabella.

Father Jerome disagrees, there isn't love but a vile interest.

Manfred is angry, to the point of condemning Theodore to death if he does not hand over Princess Isabella to him, what to do? This is his dilemma.

The friar will discover that Theodore is his lost son.

The life of Theodore is in danger until the arrival of a host of knights who carry a giant sword led by Frederic, Isabella's father, and the closest relative of Alfonso.

Matilda frees Theodore, they fall in love.

Theodore finds Isabella in a cave, in order to protect her he wounds a knight, his name is Frederic, the father of Isabella.

Theodore, Frederic and Isabella return to the castle, Frederic falls in love of Matilda.

Frederic tells his story, he went to the castle of Otranto to save his beloved Isabella.

According to a prophecy, she can be saved by Alfonso's blood where the giant sabre matching the helmet is found.

They are joined by Manfred who notices that Theodore looks like Alfonso.

Theodore tells them that he was kidnapped and enslaved by pirates.

In his hand there was a document of his mother proving that Jerome, the Count of Falconara is his father. 

The appearance of a ghost causes Frederic not to agree to marry Matilda, as suggested by his father who proposed two marriages, he will marry Isabella and Frederic Matilda.

Manfred is out of mind, the spies inform him that in this precise moment Theodore is meeting Isabella at the church. Once reached the church, he will kill Isabella, then he will discover that he has killed his daughter Matilde.

The appearance of Alfonso declares that Theodore is the true heir of the Castle Of Otranto.

At the end Theodore will marry Isabella..