A Case Analysis of Vampires’ Statuses in Popular Culture: Dracula and Blood of the Vampire By Jillian Broaddus Professor Hassan Spring 2014 Independent Study From containing possible allusions in the bible to serving as the protagonists of a multi-million dollar franchise in the twenty-first century‚ one character has transcended time and space across literature‚ media‚ and popular culture: that of the vampire. The notion of vampirism truly took ground during the expansion of the Austro-Hungarian
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talking about Vlad the Impaler. (Also referred to as Vlad III.) His father Vlad II was the elder in Wallachia. The king gave a nickname to Vlad II‚ he was given the nickname Dracul. Vlad III however got a new nickname too. His was Son of Dracul or Dracula. When Vlad II died in battle‚ his son (Vlad III rushed to take his throne. He got back in his father’s place‚ but it was short-lived. The other ruler that took the throne before him took it back. He switched sides of the war he was fighting for.
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Eyre commenting on ideas including love‚ social class and gender. Jane Eyre allowed Bronte to develop her ideas and opinions about her society at the time thoroughly. Another author who uses the art form of the novel is Bram Stoker‚ with his novel Dracula. Stoker makes known his anxieties and the anxieties that characterised his age: the repercussions of scientific advancement and the dangers of female sexuality. Jane Eyre discusses the idea of love verses autonomy. It is very much the story
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Foreman 0 DUKE UNIVERSITY Durham‚ North Carolina From Status to Contract: Domesticating Modernity in Wuthering Heights‚ The Mill on the Floss and Dracula Violeta Solonova Foreman March‚ 2011 Undergraduate Critical Honors Thesis Trinity College of Arts and Sciences English Department Foreman 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My deepest thanks to my thesis advisor‚ Professor Psomiades for her dedication‚ insight‚ positivity‚ encouragement‚ and inspiration. Also‚ thank you to loved ones for
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the envelope. Many of the details King discusses in his book‚ such as a love for horror movies‚ I can relate to quite well. Dracula‚ werewolf‚ and haunting movies were great‚ however‚ as soon as the sun went down it didn’t take an expert to scare the wits out of me. My brother practiced on a daily basis at becoming an expert. Dracula films happened to be my favorites. Dracula only came out at night and could hypnotize even the most unwilling‚ capable of turning himself into a bat and flying away at
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growing civility and refinement fostered by our society. I read Dracula as a criticism of an individualistic search for power. Take away the supernatural elements and the story is of a man who gains power by ruining the lives of others. Bram Stoker’s motivation for writing Dracula was likely not one-dimensional. While there is the obvious attempt to play on the fear of foreigners‚ I think it is incredibly important to remember that Dracula is not the typical foreigner. Even when you disregard the
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Wallachia was feared and was called Vlad the Impaler (Hosier‚ n.d.). In today’s modern world‚ the historical vampire has acquired so many faces; from the myths and legends arose three creatures of the night that has struck literature and film – Stoker’s Dracula‚ Rice’s Louis‚ and Meyer’s Edward. There has been a great shift in perspectives and in the characterization of these beings. Too see how the depiction of a vampire has changed from beinga bloodthirsty shape shifter who seeks revenge to being a frustrated
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movies are made based on a book. For example‚ Dracula and Twilight both have movies made to follow along with the book. In the book and movie‚ of Twilight‚ the Cullen’s(vampires of the story) have no similar characteristics with Dracula. The reason these two stories are compared‚ is because Dracula was publish in May of 1897 and Twilight was published in October of 2005. These are generations apart and the uniqueness of Dracula is not a part of Twilight. Dracula drank human blood and his mannerisms towards
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all in one while different things all together. In the monster stories that we humans continue to love for generations‚ have certain settings they are set in. For most of the stories it’s some gloomy made place that has some history tied into it; Dracula focused more around his legends tying him to Transylvania‚ but he was for the most part in England. These settings convey emotions to us‚ some powerful others not so much‚ the reason we love these stories in their settings is it may provide us with
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In October 1939‚ the world required heroes. Hitler had recently attacked Poland. Britain‚ France‚ Australia and New Zealand had proclaimed war. The US remained unbiased – but it was already taking the first steps towards the Manhattan Project and the making of the nuclear bomb. As Nazi Germany ’s shadow fell over Europe‚ it appeared the planet was on the edge of demolition. Who might save us? The response hit the newsstands when Timely Publications gave us Marvel Comics #1. Emerging between the
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