Shambhavi Chowdhury FI AC Shambhavi Chowdhury FI AC To what extent is Dracula a gothic play? Throughout the play Dracula‚ adapted by David Calcutt‚ several conventions can be identified. In this essay I will discuss some of the important conventions which will explain whether Dracula is a gothic play. Firstly‚ David Calcutt has adapted the conventions of dreams‚ by using “You think this is a dream‚ Mr. Harker? A terrible dream from which you will wake?”. These dreams are Dracula’s ways
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Dracula Summary Dracula is an epistolary novel‚ meaning that is composed from letters‚ journal and diary entries‚ telegrams‚ and newspaper clippings. Jonathan Harker‚ Mina Murray (later Mina Harker)‚ and Dr. Seward write the largest contributions to the novel‹although the writings of Lucy Westenra and Abraham Van Helsing constitute some key parts of the book. The novel is meant to have a slightly journalistic feel‚ as it is a harrowing account supposedly written by the people who witnessed the
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Apocalypticism that pertains to the religious beliefs which talks about the end of the world at a specific point of time. This too has a deeper reach in the theme of Dracula with Dracula expanding his reach beyond the seas and performing the role of Satan as the evil bearer. The believers plan for this event mimicking to the events of the Noah in the bible in order to save themselves for the end of world. The same way the characters in the story fights against the evil and become successful in delaying
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In Bram Stoker’s novel‚ Dracula‚ Stoker portrays many different aspects of women’s roles in the nineteenth century. Women had a strictly defined role within the era; there was no thought of equality‚ no thought that women could liberate themselves sexually. Stoker uses women in this novel to critique against women’s liberation. Stoker’s portrayal of women makes the novel seem like a fantasy. Women are primarily objects of delicate beauty who occasionally need to be rescued from danger. In the novel
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Industrial revolution represented in Dracula and Frankenstein The world was going through a major change when Frankenstein and Dracula were published. The U.S and Europe were the main forces of the Industrial Revolution‚ which was basically the transition from humans completing tasks using their own hands or tools‚ to humans using machines to do those things for them‚ due to the fact that it made their lives easier. However‚ not everyone was fond of the idea of modernization. Mary Shelly feared
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article‚ Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ she argues the “pre-Oedipal focus of the fantasies‚ specifically the child’s relation with and hostility toward the mother‚ and to indicate how the novel’s fantasies are managed in such a
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The world is poised on the edge ready to plunge into darkness under the rule of Vladimir Dracula until an ancient prophecy comes to light which places all of vampire kind in mortal danger. WHO WOULD DIE AND WHO WOULD LIVE.....that is the question that is left unanswered How would your feel about watching a breath taking tv programme which will leave you gasping for air every passing second‚ anxiously jumping up and down like a mad dog eager to find out if your beloved hero is going to save the day
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Both characters fall victim to Dracula‚ but they handled their situations very differently‚ and the way they handle it shows how much Mina is more of a leader than Lucy. After Lucy is turned into a vampire‚ she changes completely‚ from her appearance to her attitude‚ while Mina takes action after being turned. The article‚ The Brilliance of Mina Harkeralso expresses the statement‚ “...Mina refuses to stay a victim. She takes advantage of her psychic link with Dracula in order to find his location
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to become wives due to their economic reliance on men. Bram Stoker‚ either willingly or unwillingly‚ used his novel Dracula‚ to further portray the stereotype that women are inferior to men. In the novel Dracula‚ Bram Stoker conveys the stereotype that men are superior to women. In the Victorian Era‚ men believed that they were smarter and more capable of achieving more. In Dracula‚ Van Helsing was speaking to Jonathan Parker when he said "A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when
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Dracula by Bram Stoker is a story about a vampire‚ Count Dracula‚ that holds Johnathan Harker captive in his castle and he eventually escapes after he has witnessed events that change him forever. Also in this story‚ Count Dracula bites two ladies Lucy and Mina. Lucy turns into a vampire after multiple encounters with Dracula and Dr. Steward‚ Dr. Van Helsing‚ Lord Godalming‚ and Quincy Morris free her from her vampire state. Then‚ Dracula forces Mina‚ who is happens to be Johnathan Harker’s wife
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