At the time this book was written religion was regarded very highly, to have written a book like this would have shoked any audience.
It's gothic themes come from the battle between good and evil, heaven and hell and god and the devil
and this appears to be the ongoing battle in the text. The book is very scripturaly based which adds more of a gothic theme to it through corruption of religion.
We also see a man struggle between the develish pleasures of life going against the commandments in every way. In addition Belezebub is used frequently in the bible and is the name of a high regarded fallen angel.
The fact that we follow the story with the protagonist adds to the suspense as even he does not know what will happen.
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