“Betwixt Sunset and Sunrise”: Liminality in Dracula Mark M. Hennelly‚ Jr. [Mark M. Hennelly‚ Jr.‚ a Professor of English at California State University‚ Sacramento‚ has published fairly widely on Victorian fiction‚ including several liminal readings of Dracula.] In various ways‚ among widely different primitive peoples‚ the marriage customs go to show that the home threshold cannot be passed except by overcoming a barrier of some kind‚ and making an offering‚ bloody or bloodless‚ at
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The external conflict of the story „My Oedipus Complex“by Frank O’Conner? The story „ My Oedipus Complex „written by the well-known Irish author Frank O’Connor is a sacred narration of the youth and growing-up problem. There are three characters in the story: Larry - protagonist‚ his mother and father. The story is told by a little child Larry‚ who is 5 years old and who grows up in his nonhazardous world with just himself and his “beloved” mother. He is not ready to share his mother’s attention
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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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Electra complex From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Electra complex: Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon‚ byFrederic Leighton‚ c.1869 In Neo-Freudian psychology‚ the Electra complex‚ as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung‚ is a child’s psychosexual competition with his/her mother for possession of his/her father. In the course of her psychosexual development‚ the complex is the girl’s phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity‚ a boy’s analogous experience is the Oedipus complex. The Electra
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"My Oedipus Complex" is the story of a young boy named Larry who is forced to confront issues of jealousy and confusion. Larry is forced to confront these issues when his father‚ who he does not know that well‚ comes home from the war. The "Oedipus Complex" is a term coined by Sigmund Freud in which a male develops an excessive love for his mother usually accompanied by a hatred for his father. This is extremely evident throughout the story. In the beginning‚ the young boy displays signs of excitement
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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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Dracula‚ written by Bram Stoker‚ presents readers to possibly the most infamous monster in all of literature. The fictional character Count Dracula‚ has come to symbolize the periphery between the majority and being an outsider to that group. Dracula’s appeal throughout the years and genres unquestionably stem from his sense of romanticism and monster. Readers no doubt are attracted to his monstrous sensibilities‚ which provide a sense of looking first at his appearance‚ personality‚ and behavior
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Lucy Westerna and Mina Harker are the only two female characters Bram Stoker describes in detail in the novel Dracula. Lucy and Mina are two of the three characters that the reader sees becoming a vampire‚ and both characters are narrators. It is clear that these two play a very important role in the novel. Their actions have a huge effect on the way the novel unfolds. Lucy and Mina have many differences and similarities in representing the Victorian women. Lucy represents all of the evil traits
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