Thesis : This paper analyzes three covers of the gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole in order to critique the effects of the gothic villain and his behavior towards the woman in the novel. While covers A (1973) and cover B (2014) show a female with her head tossed over to portray death or oppression, cover C (2001) focuses on the style of wording to show the dysfunction going on in the castle. Ultimately these three covers display themes such as the supernatural, the dysfunction and the oppression that the characters in The Castle of Otranto experience.
Topic Sentence 1: According to Angus Phillips in “ How Books are Positioned in the Market: Reading the Cover” covers can be seen as a “jacket of a book that conveys a message about the contents of a volume” (21)
Topic Sentence 2: Although we are told not to judge a book by its cover , one will not pick up a book unless the cover evokes a journey.
Topic Sentence 3 :The theme of oppression are expressed on these three covers.
Topic Sentence 4 :Cover C (2001), similar but different from the first two covers display the plot of the story with a play on words, literally.
Conclusion: Overall , the cover of a book can lure an audience or intrigue a reader. A reader might prefer the words falling down like in Cover C with the bright oranges and bright red’s because they believe the story will be full of love , passion and heat another may prefer the subtle faceless lady in Cover B. The goal of a book’s art cover is to entertain , to swaddle the book and release the information it contains but not too much of it as Phillip explains. The three covers in “Castle of Otranto” work in conveying the same message but in three remarkable different pieces of cover art. The year each cover art plays a role in this as well. Cover A which was created in 1973, the drawing was that of a shaded drawing and the color was very dim even when it was white, it would be an off-white. Cover B which was done in 2014 also has a similar drawing in terms of shading but the message is more modern in terms of putting a female faced down in a dark room to symbolize oppression.
Your thesis statement makes a good arguemtn and evey other topic sentence. Though, the first one you should really try in changing it. It is good but from my understanding a topic seentence should be a claim of your own.
Your thesis statement is good, I like the details you put into it and the argument about each of your covers. Topic sentence one should be your source, not atopic sentence. In your conclusion where it says “The year each cover art plays a role in this as well.” if rewritten, can be more of a stronger topic sentence than a conclusion to wrap everything together at the end of your paper, maybe make it into an argumentative paragraph of its own.
I agree with the peer reviews, and I think that “dysfunction” still needs to be defined more carefully (hopefully within the intro).