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 …show more content…
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