Starting form the top-left bubble and the story "The Madness of Angels" The story displays the major Gothic Themes of the Supernatural and a Disoriented Wandering. Supernatural from the foreshadowing pigeons and trash Golem. Disoriented Wandering from the hero stumbling through nighttime London.
Next we have "The Sandman" with the major themes of supernatural and darkness. Supernatural from at his fear of the Sandman, a supernatural character. And the darkness because most of the beginning of the story takes place at night.
The Castle's two major themes are wandering/disorientation and darkness. The wandering is most prevalent because the story just kind of repeats itself and the protagonist wanders around for most of the story. It really disconcerting. The darkness is from him sleeping and wandering at night. It's dark and stormy. It also represents an empire that falls into and endless bureaucracy.
The Judgement shows a fallen empire and an oppression from the empire. The protagonists father represents the empire, and at the end of the story he crashes, assumedly into death. It is an oppression because the father abuses and frankly destroys his sons will to live.
The Lonely Empress displays themes of oppression and a heroine being deceived/ensnared by a Crown Prince. Oppression from the Empire comes from her freedom being restricted by all of the court rules of Vienna. Her being ensnared comes from her husband, who she believes she loves at the beginning but slowly realizes her life sucks and she has no escape.
Themes of deceived and being tapped by the past come from Ruins of the Abbey Fitz-martin. She is deceived by a man whom she falls in love with, but he betrays and impregnates her. She is trapped by the past because of her mistakes she is shunned by the evil church people.
In Barbara and the House of Grebe, the heroine is trapped by her vanity and past love for a man who was burned and ugly.
That was a lot of analysis.
Time to do some more reading.
Later y'all.
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