Why Do People Decided To Read Gothic Stories

My Gothic Victorian Story is called John Charrington's wedding by Edith Nesbit. The book was distributed in 1891 and was to extremely popular with the individuals who could read. The book is about a young man,who is in love with an exceptionally lovely lady called May Forster. He continues requesting that she marries him despite the fact that she generally says no. One day John went to meet his friends to let them know he and May were to be married. Not long after he announced that he needed to visit a friend who was sick. May begged him not to go, yet he demanded that he must, so he went. He said he would be back in a couple of days. However, when his train returned, he was not on it. He showed up at the wedding not long after looking spookily
white. After the wedding he went with his wife in a carriage, when they opened the carriage he had vanished and all that was left was a huddled stack on the floor. His wife had turned incredibly pale and her hair was pure white.
A couple of minutes after this happening, they got a letter saying that John had been shot at half past one that day and he had been married to May at three. They then put her in a grave close to her husband. Gothic stories were extremely famous in Victorian times as more individuals were being taught and had the ability to read and write. This started the greater interest of stories. The reason individuals decided to read Gothic books is that the press were printing a considerable amount of murder stories at the time e.g., Jack the Ripper. Additionally, individuals discovered these books and found them easier to relate to and alot more realistic than other books. It was also a great deal less expensive to print books at the time and this meant they could print more duplicates and more individuals could read the same books. Unfortunately the tremendous interest for books meant that people were pressurized into writing books in a extremely short amount of time. This made a few books shabby and fantasised. Charles Dickens quoted " The stories were melodramatic, unoriginal and full of
cliches.'

John Charrington's wedding starts with 'Nobody ever thought that May Forster would marry John Charrington.
This sentence is loaded with writing techniques including Foreshadowing and Back-story. It provides for us some back story about the character's life as it says that some people thought he wasn't good enough for her or perhaps she wouldn't acknowledge him as a commendable husband. It also includes foreshadowing as it says nobody ever thought rather than nobody thinks which tells us that at some point in the story he will get wed to her. This engages the reader as they will need to find out what will happen after the wedding and why people didn't think she would need to wed John Charrington. The opening also has some gothic words like 'bewitched'. This provides for you the thought that there is maybe something spooky that is going to happen and makes you ask why the creator picked this specific word rather than one like charm. IT gives us a feeling that she picked this expression on purpose. Close to the end of the opening when John and Mary are sitting in a park John said " My dear I believe I would come back from the dead if you wanted me to'. This sentence obviously implies that something terrible will happen later in the story, perhaps John Charrington gets killed or gets hurt, however we don't know, so we carry on reading. The reader carries on reading what is in the book in anticipation of something happening. They draw us in by making little clues of what may
happen later on to make you need to read on and figure out what is going to happen, great or awful.

Edith Nesbit uses the regular scene of a proposal to open her story. This sets a reasonable starting for the readers. It makes it more likely that individuals will purchase her book as they will think that it scarier as they feel it could happen to them. Unrealistic stories with phantoms and vampires in were less likely to be sold as they were made up and this meant that the readers couldn't relate with the story. Additionally, these characters are clearly not true and make the book less startling as people realized that there was no way that this culd happen in real life and were not scared or anxious when they read the book. Edith used a typical setting and included some reasonable components into it yet