gothic setting - chapter 2

Question 1

‘you may go anywhere in the castle, expect where the doors are locked […] we are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things’

Answer 1

• theme of the unknown / cultural otherness - Transylvania is depicted as mysterious and alien to rational Victorian England
• geographical boundaries / boundaries of societal norms
• equivocal language - supernatural and threatening nature of Transylvania