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READING AND TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF NON-AFRICAN PROSE: “The Castle of Otranto” by Horace Walpole.

ClassNotes Team 7 MIN READUPDATED 5 JUL 2026

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SSS2 Third TERM

WEEK EIGHT

READING AND TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF NON-AFRICAN PROSE: “The Castle of Otranto” by Horace Walpole.

CONTENT

REFERENCES

  • She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.
  • Exam Reflection Literature- in-English by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.
  • Exam Reflection Literature-in-English (Prose and Drama) by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi. 
  • The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.

TOPIC: READING AND TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF NON-AFRICAN PROSE: “The Castle of Otranto” by Horace Walpole.

PLOT ACCOUNT

The narrative is about a vain struggle by Prince Manfred to prevent the accomplishment of an ancient prophecy which states that the castle and lordship of Otranto “should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit”(pp. 1-2). To prevent the realization…