in Bram Stoker’s novel and Coppola’s film? The protagonist and story of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula have been widely adapted in films throughout many years. The legendary creature has mesmerized and frighten readers and viewers for nearly a century. Francis Ford Coppola however use the erotic romance of the original novel in order to illustrate a tragic love story in his film Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Bram Stoker has contributed a lot to shaping the modern conception of vampires which we see in
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that showed human decay and created an atmosphere of mystery and suspense. The words chosen in these novels and short stories were very descriptive they tended to "blend the idea of the exotic and the familiar" (The Balkans‚ 75).Supernatural and unexplainable events are crucial to the plot of a gothic story. Often‚ they act as the backbone of the plot and many of the circumstances and coincidences rest upon them. After reading Goldworthy’s piece and Stokers Dracula I intend to prove that the setting
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How does Shadow of the Vampire appropriate the earlier texts of Nosferatu and Dracula and make or create something new? Blood sucking‚ darkness‚ gothic and death; all relate to this mysterious creature‚ the vampire. A film within a film is Shadow of the Vampire and it moulds together the texts Dracula and Nosferatu using post-modernist techniques. This creates for the audience a film that entertainingly doesn’t follow universal themes but focuses on gothic features‚ character transformations and
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Corruption of Love within the Innocent Within the works of William Shakespeare’s Othello‚ Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein the concept of love is found within characters that are innocent and filled with good intentions. In all three works‚ love fills specified characters with joy and gratefulness towards the other characters who they claim to love. Unfortunately‚ the characters that experience love are only satisfied with its graces until it somehow gets corrupted. The minds
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describe a history to teach people‚ especially children‚ about social rules and values. In the other hand‚ we have Varney the Vampire and Dracula‚ those are gothic stories in which allegory and archetypes are used to create the atmosphere of darkness and danger while the story is developed to entertain readers. Little Red Cap together with Varney the Vampire and Dracula are three examples of literature which are characterized by the representation of two specific roles‚ the insiders and the outsiders
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extent do you agree with the assertion that ‘One of the basic features of gothic fiction is the critical portrayal of religion’1 in Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter‚ and Dracula by Bram Stoker? The Christian attachment to Gothic emerged from its connection to Gothic and Gothic Revivalist architecture‚ though from the nineteenth century the Romantics gave an appraisal of Christianity that differed from its previous depiction
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Insecurities of the gothic tradition have stood the test of time through the appropriation into a range of cultures and contexts through originally “The castle of Otranto” by Horace Walpole and such texts as “fall of the house of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ “Dracula” by Bram Stoker‚ “Van Helsing” Directed by Steven Sommers. It is no secret that us humans are scared of difference.
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The film was made in 1922 however it included the actor Max Schreck as the character of Count Orlok‚ a suspicious upper class aristocrat living in Transylvania. The vampire was renamed Nosferatu instead of Dracula because of copyright restrictions. The undead vampire’s monstrous appearance is iconic throughout the horror film genre history‚ looking so horrifying to look at with his vermin like appearance. The narrative is the villain of count Orlok who is a
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Bram Stoker was a European author who wrote during the Victorian movement (1837-1901). During this literary period‚ authors focused their works around a multitude of topics‚ including‚ but not limited to‚ nature‚ the growing population and the industrial revolution in Europe‚ the relationships between people and their environment‚ the events that follow when one leaves their community‚ and how an individual’s actions affect either themselves or other people. Stoker explores some of these topics of
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How far is the pardoners tale gothic? The gothic genre‚ thought to be introduced in 1769 by Horace Walpole’s noel The Castle of Otranto‚ was remembered for its crude‚ grotesque‚ exaggerated nature. Although in medieval times the Gothic movement had not commenced‚ Chaucer’s can be considered a forerunner to this movement as many aspects in the pardoners tale are clear gothic‚ however Chaucer did not perceive his writing as Gothic‚ he did not intentional write a Gothic tale like later authors did
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