Inbred and Evil: The soldier discovers that the family's isolation has resulted in extensive inbreeding, leaving them all with the same set of recessive traits, most notably flaming red hair, in addition to leaving the son, Felipe, and the unnamed mother, intellectually disabled.Impoverished Patrician: The family the soldier stays with are drained in finances.Identical Grandson: After meeting Olalla, the soldier couldn't help noticing her resemblance to the portrait of a woman in his room.Gothic Literature: Olalla contains many of the trademarks of Gothic fiction, from old families fallen from nobility to the isolated town established near the mountains.First-Person Perspective: The story is told from the experience of the Scottish soldier.Face Death with Dignity: Olalla, knowing her family is to be exterminated by the locals, chooses to accept it rather than run away with the soldier.Death Equals Redemption: Olalla expresses her belief that, with her damaged family line completely destroyed, they can finally be redeemed.Cannibal Clan: A rare posh instance of this trope - the family is implied have suffered from bad breeding, causing them to develop some odd habits.
Bloodlust: As soon as she sees the soldier's bleeding arm, the mother goes into a frenzy and tries to bite him.Bad People Abuse Animals: Felipe exhibits his cruelty to wild animals within the property, even killing them with his own hands.Ambiguous Disorder: Felipe is implied to have signs of savant mannerisms, as well as troubling behavior.Before long, he comes to realize why he has to. When he finally meets her, he falls immediately in love with her only to be told to leave the home at once for his own safety.
Taking place in Spain, a nameless Scottish soldier is advised by his doctor to take up temporary residence with a once-noble local family - a mother, a son and a daughter - while recovering from his war wounds, but under the condition that he remain a stranger to them.ĭuring his stay, he starts to befriend the mother and son (despite them being "slothful" and "stupid"), but never once meets the daughter. Olalla is one of the short stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1885.
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