I read the script and I saw this man in conflict with himself, reaching, pulled, sort of compulsively toward the future. He’s an engineer, he’s an industrialist, he’s an inventor, and he’s actully deeply gifted. He could have been one of the great industrialists that changed the world, and he wants to, he has an innate gift for that. He’s open-hearted and curious and wants to explore his life and his work, but he’s weighted down by the past and the past is haunted in one respect, it’s haunted physically and emotionally, and he’s accountable for that. And so there’s this amazing tension between escaping his inheritance physically in Allerdale Hall and emotionally, and rushing towards who he wants to be. So I found that fascinating and we talked about that and we explained that even bigger and made his struggle to take control of his destiny even stronger, in a way.

Tom Hiddleston on Sir Thomas Sharpe, his character from Crimson Peak, at The Nerdist Podcast  (via the-haven-of-fiction)

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crimsonpeaksecrets:

I love the character of Thomas Sharpe….and I also love Lucille Sharpe too

I’m in no way qualified or have the full understanding but I have studied gothic genre and English literature and gained a qualification from it so I will say this.

Gothic genre is meant to push the social boundaries of acceptance and play on taboo subjects. This includes incest. In fact in this movie/story/ novelisation it has been done in one of the best manners I’ve seen. It is clever in its execution in that it makes you sit and question, not whether it’s wrong or right, but what happened to the Sharpe siblings that made them go this extreme. That is when the secondary thought of hmm…this is wrong, but do I accept and understand why it is that they have reached this point? How could this actually be something they’ve resorted to from such a young age and they construe it as being love?

That is the moral ambiguity of it all. That is what gothic is meant to do to its audience in the same way Frankenstein makes you question who the monster really is.

As for the rest of the matters surrounding the Sharpe siblings I’ll leave you with this, hopefully people will understand what I mean when I say it and realise what I’m getting at.

The true monsters are the parents, and I would vouch that perhaps this doesn’t just relate to the Sharpe’s parents either.