novel; then I will comment on the description which some scholars give about the woman of the nineteenth century. I will also exemplify the patriarchal fear of female sexuality by using two of the texts studied in the lectures; Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker‚ and The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James. I will especially focus on the characters of Mina and Lucy while dealing with Dracula‚ and the governess while dealing with The Turn of the Screw. Finally‚ I will finish this essay by summing up
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From the ability to change physical form to a blood-thirsty nature society has always been morbidly fascinated with the concept of Dracula. It has not only seduced literature such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula but also infected mainstream music and film industries. Many composers have expanded and appropriated much of the vampire genre such as Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula and Slayer’s Bloodline. The ideas surrounding vampires has been of good versus evil‚ the nature of religion and immortality. It is
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In “The Judge’s House” written by Bram Stoker‚ the story takes place at an evil judge’s house that has hanged people‚ and a student named Malcomson is just staying there for a few days despite being warned not to. Strange occurrences begin with rats disturbing Malcomson while he is staying there but particularly a rat with red eyes sticks out to him. The rat with the red eyes would be in a hole behind a painting of the judge that is hung in the house‚ and sit in the same position as the judge in
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“There is reason that all things are as they are...” (Stoker 17). Outlasting countless other tales of its time‚ Bram Stoker’s lore of “Dracula” began as and still continues to be a classic‚ frightening novel and despite how some would classify it on only a single one end of the spectrum‚ it holds true elements of both literary and commercial fiction. He uses various techniques of writing‚ such as the epistolary plot structure and dramatic irony‚ and elements‚ including suspense‚ to present an unexpected
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The image of the Vampire is constantly present in the virtual and literature culture of the twenty-first century. Although this being moved from its folkloristic origins in which he appeared in works of J.Sheridan Le Fanu‚ John Polidori and Bram Stoker‚ the vampire still remains an iconic figure in Western Culture. This personage provides paradoxical fascination as it exists ‘at the edges of what is deemed normal‚ acceptable and safe‚ the vampire embodies the foreign and the unfamiliar’. Although
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English Assignment – Dracula Feature Article Brianna Moore Francis Ford Coppola’s modern adaption of Bram Stoker’s 19th century gothic text captivates audiences by uncovering the layers of Dracula’s depiction as a tragic hero and exploring the dimensions of darkness existing in the story’s most innocent protagonists. What modern gothic elements were used to demonstrate the conflict between religion with its emphasise on purity and the immorality and maleficence of vampirism? The most drastic
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Dracula Book Report Author: Bram Stoker Title: Dracula Rating: Excellent Reading Level: Hard Number of Pages: 363. With the notes and commentary: 394 Summary: Dracula is a novel about 6 comrades scheming to exterminate Count Dracula in revenge for killing the love of both Quincey Morris and Lord Godalming‚ Lucy Westenra. They soon find they are dealing with a bloodthirsty vampire‚ and their plot turns into a race for whom is able to survive‚ Count Dracula‚ or them. Their story is
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In Bram Stoker’s novel‚ Dracula is depicted as the definition of evil. Throughout the novel‚ there is no doubt about his nefarious intentions and murderous pastimes as he proclaims‚ “My revenge has just begun! I spread it over centuries and time is on my side “ (Brams 339‚ ch 22). Thus it is apparent in the novel that Dracula is evil. Brams made his definition of evil quite clear through Dracula’s sexualized‚ violent‚ and
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In this essay‚ I would like to expose myself to the question how the non-human agency of a bat can be reflected through Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula? Furthermore‚ does nature exist in any prediscursive form prior to its marking by human culture? In Stoker’s Dracula a big bat flaps and buffets its wings against the window of Lucy Westerna frightening her out of her wits. In this novel bats can be seen as representing the uncanny and mysterious of nature; and moreover‚ as we humans are part of nature
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Dracul and translated Dracul means dragon in Latin. Dracul was an angry man‚ when he punished someone he would take his victims and stick them on stakes and them hang till dead and he would drink there blood on occasions thus the myth of the vampire in Bram Stalkers famous novel Dracula being based off of Count Dracul. After all this transpired that had affect the world and put them to fear that vampires were real and struck fear in our hearts and forever more. Now‚ for the gothic side and dominatrix
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