During reading “Castle of Otranto” and Sir Bertrand” there is a sense of feeling that both characters are being watched and get an uneasy feeling that something is going to occur. The dark, silence, and echoes are important in setting the atmosphere for the excerpts and making the reader feel a mixture of emotions. Both characters in these excerpts show that they are uneasy and aware of their surroundings as explained in the excerpt “Castle of Otranto”, “An awful silence reigned throughout those subterraneous regions, except now and then some blasts of wind that shook the doors she passes, and which, grating in the rusty hinges, were re-echoed through the long labyrinth of darkness”(Walpole,588) In “Sir Bertrand”, Adeline, the main character
