The Best Gift I Gave and Received Everyone has their own personal definition of a gift. Some may say a gift is nothing more but an item given from one person to another on a special occasion. From my personal experience I can certainly say that a gift is much more than just an item. A gift brings joy and happiness to me. Receiving a gift always brightens my day. I not only appreciate receiving gifts but I also enjoy giving gifts to both loved ones and less fortunate people‚ who do not receive gifts
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TITLE | SUMMARY | KEY QUOTES | The Bloody Chamber | A young girl travels on a train to her husband- the Marquis. While at his French castle‚ she learns that he takes enjoyment in her embarrassment. She is a pianist- a blind piano tuner hears her playing and falls in love with her. The Marquis tells her that he is leaving on business‚ forbidding her to enter one particular room. She enters the perverse room‚ encountering all the dead bodies of his previous wives. The girl realises that the Marquis
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Stoker’s uses Dracula as the main challenge for the protagonist‚ Jonathan Harker. In Dracula One of the most prominent things that happened during stoker’s time is Sigmund Freud ideologies‚ which were sweeping the philological field. Ego and sexuality are the biggest pieces of influence Stoker took from Freud. Freud argues that the superego drives the human’s subconscious‚ the superego controls us‚ Dracula is the superego to his subjects because he has control
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lawyer wishes to hear Archer’s opinion‚ as he is closely connected with the family. Archer is uneasy with this proposition‚ but agrees to look over the papers concerning the settlement. In reading the letters‚ Archer comes across a letter written by Count Olenski that he feels
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The Supernatural‚ a manifestation attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature (Literary Jewels)‚ examples of that would be ghosts‚ angels‚ and gigantic human sized bugs. The story containing supernatural elements may have a religious purpose‚ such the role of angels and demons in Islam‚ Judaism and Christianity; or the supernatural elements may portray notions about reality such as issues in social justice‚ discrimination‚ or alienation and the sense of belonging
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Latin American storytelling of the mythological Chupacabra‚ whose alleged sightings relate to those of aliens and vampires‚ regulate children’s behavior by implanting a fear of the unknown. Since 1995‚ stories about a strange‚ blood-sucking‚ goat-eating dog-like monster appear in many scholarly articles‚ journals‚ and books causing mass hysteria. With several misconceptions‚ witnesses believe the Chupacabra preyed on and mutilated goats and other farm animals. Articles‚ journals‚ books‚ and people’s
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The third research question focuses on the classic Gothic texts that are incorporated in this corpus. This research question refers to Clive Bloom’s list of significant horror and ghost tales provided in his book Gothic Horror (xiii-xvii). Since fear is part of the emotions of horror as well‚ an intense representation of its linguistic expressions is expected to be found in those works. A certain number of these horror tales were incorporated in the corpus too which were analysed in order to detect
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Throughout the years the culture and how people have viewed vampires has dramatically changed. The older version of the vampire took on the persona of an evil blood sucking creature when today the vampire plays the role of the loving good guy in the movies. Today society has embraced the vampire as an iconic character and spurned the imagination of girls across the country. Twilight‚ True Blood‚ and Vampire Diaries are at the top of the list when it comes to most popular vampire flicks but a new
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Nolan’s Dog and the Dimensional Warriors It was a dark and stormy night. My friend and I were surrounded by darkness‚ monsters in every corner‚ lightning striking every haunted house‚ and . . . zombies coming out of their nooks. We finally reached the haunted castle. When we got in‚ there was a picture. It was a puppet‚ and this puppet was no ordinary puppet. It was. . . . Creak! Creak! We had no time to lose. The puppet hit me in the eye‚ and Nolan dropped his bag. We both ran outside and heard
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Brian Newman 10/4/16 Ms.Schroter English IV Frankenstein as a gothic novel Frankenstein can be described as a gothic novel because of some of the characteristics of how it was written. There are many different characteristics of a gothic novel that make this a gothic novel. Some of these characteristics include having a gloomy setting which was shown throughout the whole novel. The supernatural element of the monster is another example of a gothic novel. The last example of a gothic novel displayed
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