The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho

by

Ann Radcliffe

The Mysteries of Udolpho Symbols

Black Veil

The black veil, which resembles a mourning garment and hangs over a mysterious object in the castle at Udolpho, symbolizes mortality and specifically how some people try to forget their own mortality by putting a…

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Miniature

St. Aubert owns a miniature portrait of a mysterious woman (who turns out to be the Marchioness De Villeroi, his sister who died young), and this miniature symbolizes how the mysteries of the past…

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