Gothic Punishments
Sep 11th, 2012 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
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The idea was to keep piling bricks until you’d walled yourself into a tomb of your own making. It was all very Gothic, something straight out of Poe.
For Walter Rochester, however, the laying of bricks was not strictly a punishment. He found the monotonous labor helped to relieve his mind of thoughts of his unfulfilled existence and he embraced the endeavor. Where others resigned themselves with morbid indifference, Walter used the opportunity to indulge all of his latent fantasies.
His father had forbid him to attend architecture school, so his tomb would be a monument to those abandoned ambitions.
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