Grundhoefer Professor Thomas 2/20/2012 Dracula: A better read‚ or a better movie? Since the beginning of the moving picture‚ directors have been recreating books into movie. More often than not‚ the directors will change the original plot line of the book. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula the director changes the plot in a few different instances but for the most part‚ the director keeps the same plotline. Some similarities between the book and the movie are: the genre and setting‚ loss of personal
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The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker‚1897 has been adapted into a film Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ made in 1992. This film is an accurate and exceptionally well done adaptation of the novel. What made this adaptation so good was how it was put together; from the cast‚ to the added romance‚ to incorporating all important ideas from the novel into the film‚ without making it un-cinematic. Francis Ford Coppola (the producer of the film) chose the right cast to depict the characters just as imagined in the
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Evil has long been expressed through movies and books throughout history. Batman beating the Joker‚ Spiderman banishing the Green Goblin‚ and Arthur and the guys defeating Dracula are all examples of literature based on the theme Good vs. Evil. In Bram Stokers‚ Dracula‚ Jonathan Harker represents the good‚ while the vampire‚ Dracula‚ represents the evil antagonist. One thing these four pieces share is that evil never fully overcomes good. They all start off as regular human beings‚ or on the good side
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dracula...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................This thesis discusses the life and deeds of the
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Dracula‚ by Bram Stoker‚ is a classic gothic novel‚ originally published in 1897. The novel focuses on a group of men following and‚ ultimately‚ killing a vampire named Dracula. The readers learn fairly early in the book that vampires have supernatural powers and limitations they face. When Jonathan Harker‚ the first character met in the novel‚ goes to Dracula’s castle‚ he witnesses most of Dracula’s strengths and weaknesses. A few chapters in‚ the readers meet a bug-eating mental patient named Renfield
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Redemption in Dracula” she examines the theme of the stark contrasts between pure and unclean. Pollution in the sense the writer was going for does not mean landfills and gas guzzlers‚ but when the unclean taints the pure. Going beyond the surface definition‚ the book Dracula has many instances of contrasting values surrounding the thoughts of purity. The ideas of good and evil‚ life and death‚ new and old‚ and civilization and savagery are examined throughout the novel. Dracula as a whole is
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Dracula: Competition and the Social Adulterer; Good vs. Evil Throughout Stoker’s Dracula‚ a central theme is evident‚ Competition. The term competition refers to a test of skill or ability. Most of the competitions in Dracula are those between Dracula and the “good” men. Stoker’s novel can be seen as a similar version of the “Primal Horde” theory in which Freud created. A primal horde is a group of people arranged around a single dominant male‚ who has total authority over the group and holds
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Human Dracula Characteristics of a vampire according to Bram Stoker in Dracula Pale/ skin Old man‚ white hair+long moustaches‚ dressed in black‚ a quiline(Hawk-like)nose. Pointy ears Red eyes Long fingernails Hairy palms He is young in London‚ his complexion is ruddy/reddish with full red lips. Daylight doesn’t kill Dracula‚ it just makes him have normal strength and power. Althought he has strength of 20 men be car change to a bat‚ wolf‚ dog‚ rat‚ mist‚ dust. Control animals-creatures
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Stoker’s novel‚ Dracula is a piece of gothic literature in which Count Dracula inflicts grief and pain upon mortal men by attempting to charm and steal their women‚ eventually turning them into vampires. Stoker portrays women as unintelligent beings who will follow the Count because of his apparent charm‚ strength‚ and stereotypical beauty. The Count is a dark‚ beautiful‚ and mysterious man‚ and this covers up the evil that he has committed and the amount of lives he has taken. In Dracula‚ Stoker uses
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Texts such as the novel Dracula‚ and the film Interview with the Vampire‚ are often shaped by the values and attitudes within society at the particular time in which it was created. As a result‚ the context plays a major role in the construction of a text. In Dracula‚ a novel in epistolary format set and published in 1897 by Bram Stoker‚ not only do the concepts of sexuality‚ religion‚ family‚ technology‚ class and gender roles reflect the way they were viewed in the Victorian era‚ but the actual
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