Which feature of Gothic writing does this passage from Herman Melville's Moby-Di. ck best illustrate?

If such a furious trope may stand, his special lunacy
stormed his general sanity, and carried it, and turned all its
concentred cannon upon its own mad mark; so that far
from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did
now possess a thousand fold more potency than ever he
had sanely brought to bear upon any one reasonable
object.

A. Death

B. Feelings of guilt

C. Mystery and suspense

D. Insanity

this doesnt make any sense imao

d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.