While it seemed that Joyce Carol Oates experienced dark childhood experiences‚ she seems to explore her thoughts according to similar events that had happened in her life. Written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ “Spider Boy” is an example that highly defines gothic horror. Many of her works deal with violence‚ rape‚ death‚ or a character that has gone completely mad. “Naked” has many dark and nightmare like scenes‚ Oates writes on how a normal day can be your worst; it is that Oates puts a woman in a scene that
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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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predestined 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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Gothic Horror is a term used to depict fictitious work that has incorporated a lot of horror scenes as well as elements of the unreal world‚ exploring the conflict between good and evil and dealing with the supernatural in some sort of way. The episodic novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker in 1897 and the movie Blade by Stephen Norrington created in 1998 bring to the fore many conventions relating to the Gothic Horror genre despite their vastly different contexts. Gothic elements of imprisonment
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Johnathan Rubio 11/15/11 9th period In Charles Dickens novel “A Tale of Two Cities” he expresses a tone of disgust through the use of sarcasm‚ alliteration‚ and repetition. Tone is the writer’s attitude towards the subject‚ and in this case Charles Dickens shows disgust towards Monseigneor. In his story he uses sarcasm to describe how selfish Monseigneur is. For example he states “Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only
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The article The Brilliance of Mina Harker states‚ “...there are many instances in the novel where Mina is proactive and takes action instead of just reacting to what’s going on around her” Lucy is the complete opposite of Mina; she gives into the vampire temptations and ends up being killed. 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
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course of the novel Dracula‚ author Bram Stoker’s purpose in creating a strong sense of realism becomes progressively apparent. He does so by marrying realism and the novel’s clear fiction to create terror‚ and shock all those that open its pages. Through this‚ he’s reaching the reader in a thoughtful manner‚ as they might perceive events of story to be real indeed. The use of intricate language enables Stoker to appear to sincerely know what transpires during the course of the novel with the help
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The Yellow Wallpaper and The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde represent the gothic genre‚ it can be viewed as too simplistic because of the complexity within the Gothic genre; both showing clear distinct differences between each other. ‘Dr.J+Mr.H’ explores the Duality of man through the beast like character of Mr. Hyde‚ with clear conventions of the Classic Gothic. TYW on the other hand representing the modern Gothic‚ replacing the supernatural with the irrational‚ which is not seen as monstrous
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Liminality in Dracula “Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law‚ custom‚ convention‚ and ceremonial” (Turner‚ The Ritual Process 95). Arnold van Gennep’s original concept of liminality is a central theme to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It provides depth and understanding behind many of the superstitious beliefs and occurrences throughout the novel. Liminality is the threshold and the presence of an in between state occurring within
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foreshadow what will happen later on. In the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker‚ Jonathan Harker’s experiences multiple instances which act as a clue that something bad is going to happen soon. Throughout the novel‚ the characters help support the theme of madness and confinement through foreshadowing. In the novel Jonathan is at Dracula’s castle and many times has feelings that something bad is going to happen which then turns out to foreshadow another part of the novel. The clues given by Stoker help predict
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