2025 NECO GCE LITERATURE: 2025 NECO GCE LITERATURE OBJ & ESSAY (6736)

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Nii Kpakpo exploits Maa Tsuru's desire to have a husband. Maa Tsuru's gullibility and how Nii Kpakpo's presence caused the departure of her four children. Nii Kpakpo's convinces Maa Tsuru to send Baby T to a distant relative, when in reality she is sold into prostitution. Nii Kpakpo's departure leaves her worse than he met her. In other words She does not gave a stable relationship as she comes across men who impregnates her and dumps her afterwards. Being a gullible woman, Maa Tsuru believes Nii Kwakpo without questioning. She however regrets her relationship with the man later in the novelbas she realises her mistakes and gullibility. Maa Tsuru began to feel for the pinch. She dropped a hint to kpakpo but either he did not get it or refused to get it. Kwakpo succeeds in deceiving Maa Tsuru to part with her daughter, Baby T, only for Maa Tsuru to regret it later when Baby T is being gruesomely murdered.

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(i)The theme of love; Horace Walpole didn’t fail to employ the thing called love among his characters (both paternal and romantic). The strong bond between Lady Hippolita and her children were due to love undiluted while the romantic love between the likes of Theodore and Maltilda leave readers with goosebumps. They loved each other so much that they blindly took risks for love.

(ii)The theme of masculinity; The author indirectly questioned the supremacy of the male gender over the female gender. In the novel Castle of Otranto, men took rash decisions concerning women as if women were mere puppets to toil with for fun. Without seeking the opinion of Isabella, she was betrothed to Conrad. Matilda was also denied chance of becoming heiress or inheriting the political estate of her father.

(iii)The theme of supernatural; Horace Walpole proved in the novel that some inhuman forces were capable of controlling the existence of humans. Those forces played on both objects and human emotions. Besides other actions such the ghosts, giant, the fulfilled prophecy that the rightful heir of Otranto will possess their possession is a big evidence.