How The Use Of The Diary Form Narrative Is Beneficial To The Novel Dracula. Bram Stoker‚ being the creative and intellectual writer himself‚ wrote the novel Dracula in the diary form of narrative. This was a good choice of how to write the novel since it was very beneficial to the plot of Dracula. Examples of how the diary form is beneficial to Dracula is seen in his writing and book. One of the greatest benefits of the diary narrative is that the reader is allowed see‚ and feel the emotional
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Draculas castle despite its age is a solid building which encompasses a lot of contextual history.. When Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle he states “ I became conscience of the fact that the driver was pulling up in a courtyard of a vast ruined castle
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novels set in the eighteenth century that involve romanticism‚horror and madness .Interestingly Gothic novels aim to not only create suspense driven plots but to also trigger strong emotions in the reader. The novels Frankenstein by Mary Shelley‚ Dracula by Bram Stoker and The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson all fall under the Gothic Genre‚each exploring different forms of supernatural beings. Each novel fulfills the elements of a classic Gothic novel as they all emphasize
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clear in Dracula and fairly obvious in subsequent vampire stories‚ but a closer reading of less obvious texts will reveal sexual undertones in the acts of violence. This discussion will look at the presence of sexually-natured brutality in Dracula and “Vampires in the Lemon Grove‚” two very different vampire stories‚ the physical act of rape in “The Company of Wolves‚” and the underlying sexual innuendos present in the movie Aliens. One of the dominant themes in Bram Stoker’s Dracula is that
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References: Andrić M. (1983) Memorial museum 21.0ctober (Spomen muzej 21. Oktobar). Kragujevac: Memorial park Kragujevac Banić Grubišić А. (2009) Dracula as a cultural construct in the tourist industry of Romania. Berger‚ P. (1967). The Sacred Canopy‚ Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion‚ NewYork: Doubleday Bauman‚ Z. (1992) „Survival as a Social Construct. Theory‚ Culture and Society“‚ London
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alive on the big screen – at least in some way‚ shape‚ or form. Dracula lives on in various reincarnations‚ like in the tolerable animated Hotel Transylvania (Adam Sandler) series‚ and the recent live-action flick‚ Dracula Untold (Luke Wilson) Similarly‚ Frankenstein also continues to be the centerpiece of silver screen productions – for better or worse. He‚ like Dracula‚ stars in Hotel Transylvania (Kevin James) – and like Dracula Untold‚ also recently received the modern treatment in I‚ Frankenstein
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Addiction‚ Bullying and Self-empowerment in Buffy the vampire Slayer by Rob Cover and it involves the fictional character‚ Willow‚ and her addiction to magic. The article shares several similarities with the peer reviewed article Battling Addictions in Dracula by Kristina Aikens‚ and “[I]s it dangerous?” Alternative readings of “drugs” and “addiction” in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Jo Latham. All three articles explain the drug references in vampire media albeit with different points and interpretations
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sophisticated vampire; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century‚[9] inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula.[10] However‚ it is Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula that is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and which provided the basis of modern vampire fiction. Dracula drew on earlier mythologies of werewolves and similar legendary demons and "was to voice the anxieties of an age"‚ and the "fears of late Victorian patriarchy"
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Does Dracula‚ Queen of the Damned‚ or Anne Rice sound familiar? Surely‚ they must‚ but not just for one person. In fact‚ for people all over the world! The three terms expressed all have one thing in common; vampires. These mythical creatures are one of the most popular horror-related figures. Vampires may be a frightening subject for most‚ but that does not take away from the fact of their popularity throughout. The fascination of vampires has greatly affected past‚ present‚ and future cultures
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scholars give about the woman of the nineteenth century. I will also exemplify the patriarchal fear of female sexuality by using two of the texts studied in the lectures; Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker‚ and The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James. I will especially focus on the characters of Mina and Lucy while dealing with Dracula‚ and the governess while dealing with The Turn of the Screw. Finally‚ I will finish this essay by summing up the content explained throughout the text. The end of the
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