Isabella escapes to a monastery located outside of the castle where she finds Friar Jerome, the long-lost father of Theodore. He marries Isabella after the death of Matilda. He helps Isabella escape from the castle during Manfred's suspenseful pursuit, while also attracting the attention of both Matilda and Isabella. His initial role in the novel is to illustrate the relationship between the fallen helmet and the prophecy of the true heir being revealed. Theodore, the son of Friar Jerome and savior of Isabella, is the true heir of the Castle of Otranto. Submissive, excessively religious, and depressed, Hippolita remains under the influence of her husband, catering to his whims despite her own longings for happiness. Manfred desires to divorce his wife because she cannot provide another heir, but he tries to justify the divorce by saying that the couple is actually related. The wife of a villainous lord and the mother to soon-to-be deceased children: these are Hippolita's roles. Matilda, a young woman of extreme sympathy, virtue, and sentimentalism, falls in love with Theodore however, unable to get approval from her parents to be with him, she is instead betrothed to Frederic, Isabella's lustful father. Manfred's ultimate display of tyranny occurs when he mistakenly stabs his daughter Matilda to death. The teenage son of Manfred and Hippolita, Conrad is betrothed to Isabella, but on the way to his wedding he is crushed to death by a symbol of the curse of the Otranto castle: a supernaturally-charged falling helmet. She is rescued by Theodore, the soon-to-be revealed legitimate heir of Otranto, and marries him during the novel's resolution. She narrowly escapes Manfred's grasp, preventing a nearly incestuous and non-consensual marriage from taking place.
Threatened by kidnapping, rape, and an overall unwanted marriage, she tries to escape from the castle after the death of her intended husband, Conrad. Isabella, lovely, virtuous, and self-assured, is this novel's damsel in distress. The terror that ensues following his chase of Isabella is grotesque and morally reprehensible, but it is also the driving force behind the novel's suspenseful plot. His passion obscures his ability to reason, and he becomes so obsessed with the death of his son that he feels he must divorce his wife and marry his deceased son's intended bride. The tyranny he inflicts upon his family and those visiting his castle make him a prime example of a Gothic villain. As The Castle of Otranto's antagonist, Manfred the tyrannical husband of Hippolita and the obsessive father of Matilda and Conrad. A lord? A familial dictator? Manfred is both.
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