He manages to set the scene as well as set in motion the ideas that will be explored within the novel. ... The common type of narrator for prose novels is the third person omniscient. ... He moves from the outside, rural setting and the sensationalism it brings with isolation to instead an isolation in a crowded place which the classic Gothic novels didn't do, thus bringing in his deep criticism of the current social structure. It doesn't seem to be a coincidence either that the title is what it is, many Gothic novels (and those inspired by) were titled with the names of houses, pla...

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