The similarities between the past and the present restaurant operations is that you can taste the food prepared. It is in order to taste if the food is good enough for it to serve to the customers or the guests.<span />
Most likely plot setup of a gothic novel is c) a woman travelling alone on a dark road in a secluded area. Gothic novel is a genre of fiction literature popular in England in 18th and 19th Century. It combines elements of horror, romance and death. The first gothic novel was "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole (published in 1764). Other authors known for such stories were: <span>Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), Edgar Allan Poe or Bram Stoker (Dracula). </span>
The sculptor was following a Roman tradition at the time to portray emperors as other-worldly, almost godlike beings. He makes his eyes very large and his face stoic to convey that he his someone not quite human like the rest of us, and perhaps he is above the fleeting emotions that govern the rest of mankind.