Obstinacy and Rigidity      Obstinacy and Rigidity was the most difficult to grasp and identify. The picture of house number 316 contains many examples of massive ornaments which jut out from the house and seem to add a weighty, tense and disjointed feel to the whole structure. The picture of the fence ornamentation creates a captive energy within the coiled tendril which exudes tension. The top of the column is very prickly and almost violent in contrast to the smooth lines of the roof. Ruskin says, "In the Gothic vaults and traceries there is a stiffness analogous to that of the bones of a limb, or fibers of a tree" (Ruskin 715). This tension and rigidity is captured in the architecture.