Upon completion of the video the first thing that I can say I learned was that Horace Walpoles house was the place where gothic revival in architecture and the gothic genre started. I learned that the gothic genre tends to depend on strange places when it comes to the setting, in the narrators words, wild and remote landscapes. When the narrator talked about this tendency in gothic work something clicked in my head because it’s so obvious that it was so for me easy to overlook. In Frankenstein, from what I remember the setting was rather remote because not too many people encountered the reanimated man. I also distinctly remember the setting in the castle, I think it was, where the monster was created and it was sort of this dark and gloomy background. At least that was the impression I got from it when I read Shelley’s novel a couple years ago. I learned how gothic likes to incorporate the confrontation of the past and the present like with Dracula. The theme, that I liked the most, mentioned in the video was power. It’s just interesting that the difference of power was used to better highlight the limitations of humans. I also noticed that the narrator said that this theme of power could be related to the position of women in the 18^th or 19^th centuries. After all women were forced into positions in which they are not in power. It makes me wonder could the gothic genre pay a large aspect of its origins to women’s toils in society? After all it arose in this period where the issue of power for women was evident. Furthermore, the next theme the narrator talked about also appeared in gothic works, sexual power. This makes me believe all the more that the gothic genre could just be this peculiar satiric portrayal of the issue of the power in society during the 18^th and 19^th century periods. I also learned of the uncanny which the narrator explained derived from Sigmund Freud which brings the audience back to something within their past. The other theme the narrator mentioned was the sublime where authors would try to shed new light on situations that specifically fit on the scales of pleasurable or even desirable. I also learned that gothic usually tends to arrive in periods of political or social turmoil during the crisis category. Finally, I learned that gothic is fascinated with the supernatural and that there are actually two different kinds of gothic. The first one being, as the narrator explains, the gothic that uses the supernatural as its to be used and expects the audience to believe in it and the other that gives a natural and or realistic explanation of it. The photo that I decided to include during my gander through castle of otranto in the google search was of the infamous metal hand that inspired the work published in 1764. The reason this photo in particular is because its such a blatant expression of power, a giant fist brandished with armor. I think I also chose this image because I think it accentuates the ordeal of power present within the work.