dragon in Latin. Dracul was an angry man‚ when he punished someone he would take his victims and stick them on stakes and them hang till dead and he would drink there blood on occasions thus the myth of the vampire in Bram Stalkers famous novel Dracula being based off of Count Dracul. After all this transpired that had affect the world and put them to fear that vampires were real and struck fear in our hearts and forever more. Now‚ for the gothic side and dominatrix side
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prolific and sadistic serial killers the world has known. She was nicknamed “The Blood Countess”‚ and also “Lady Dracula”. Elizabeth Bathory is reputed to have not only drunk but bathed in the blood of young virgin girls. She is perhaps less well-known only than the infamous Vlad Dracula‚ who was an inspiration for Bram Stoker’s fictional Count Dracula. During the years since Dracula was published‚ the Blood Countess has exercised a powerful fascination on many writers and film-makers. However‚ recently
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orbs” The effect of this quote is to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation‚ as the features of Alexandru are sharp and unfamiliar. Alexandru’s power can be defined by his physical characteristics; “teeth like razorblades‚ his dark red eyes shining in the gloom.” Hill uses a simile to refine the small details of Alexandru‚ and to assist the reader with his social status‚ and the true tremor he can cause. Hill has used intertextuality from “Dracula” to recreate a similar look on Alexandru; “His
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grotesque‚ the mysterious‚ the desolate‚ the horrible‚ the ghostly‚ and‚ ultimately‚ the abject fear that can be aroused in either the reader or in the viewer. Almost everyone is familiar with such characters as Dr. Frankenstein’s monster and Count Dracula‚ two current pop culture horror characters who evolve from the gothic traditions. Published mainly in the 1830s and 1840s‚ the stories of Edgar Allan Poe have come to represent the height of 19th century tales of the macabre. One of the American Romantics
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“The monsters within us are far worse than the monsters of the world.” A quote that possesses more wisdom than it appears. When I first read this quote‚ it spoke to me on a deep level. When people think of monsters‚ they think of the Wolfman‚ Dracula‚ Frankenstein‚ etc… but what we don’t realize‚ is that some of the scariest monsters can be within us. We are non-fiction and sometimes monsters can come out within the most unexpected people. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an example of how someone
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of thunder shook the old house. A younger man sat in his bedroom reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula. While sipping on a glass of iced water‚ the man lit a candle because the sky outside continued to be engulfed in an infinite darkness. The only lighting for the man’s reading was the small candle and the continuous bright flashes of light from the lightning outside of his window. This was the perfect atmosphere for the man to start his novel‚ he thought. The man glanced up at the clock‚ and to his
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amounts of money. Then around the mid 1930 ’s the film industries began to pick up again. This started the greatest time of popular entertainment‚ that’s what most called it. Horror film started around this time with the famous movie "Dracula" directed by Todd Browning. "Dracula" showed a radical change from silent films to talking films. Then when it finally premiered on Valentine’s Day (1931)‚ newspapers reported that audiences everywhere fell in shock at the horror they saw on their screens.
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“Compare and contrast the presentation of female protagonists in Gothic Literature‚ in order to determine the validity of Gothic as a serious genre rather than the merely macabre” The three texts; Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and Selected poems by John Keats project images of female characters in very different ways. Much of the portrayal of females is in correlation to the attitudes and position of women within society at the time of writing. The preconception
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Literary Masterpieces Adrienne Johnson University of Phoenix December 09‚ 2013 A literary masterpiece is a piece of work that can withstand the test of time. What this means is that a particular piece of literary work can still be able to provoke a person’s thoughts and capture the interest of the readers all throughout the years that have passed‚ despite everything that goes on in the world around us and all of the current events that have and will take place
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comprehend is that there are people out there who are really just that cruel. Friedrich Neitzsche said it best when he quoted “man is the cruelest animal.” One of the cruelest human beings to walk this earth is Vlad Dracula. He was a Prince of Wallachia a total of three times. Dracula even means “little devil”‚ his name even shows you how evil this man is. He is known for the way he would torture his innocent victims. The most common method he would use is impalement. Impalement is one of the
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