it lays‚ the story takes the reader through a wicked‚ twisted version of Snow White‚ as the Count gets the girl he wishes for and by the end of the second page she gets killed after which the Count begins to have intercourse with her. “Weeping‚ the Count got off his horse‚ unfastened his breeches and thrust his virile member into the dead girl”. This is shocking to the reader as we don’t expect the Count to be a necrophiliac. The story is shocking as the girl is given human characteristics‚ and so
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inquisition‚ the Crusades‚ and the most severe and devastating of them all‚ the Holocaust. Even though during the Victorian age‚ the Jews were not actively persecuted‚ antisemitism can still be seen in the works of literature‚ like Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Dracula stereotypical Jewish appearance is meant to symbolize the Victorian distrust
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Stoker’s uses Dracula as the main challenge for the protagonist‚ Jonathan Harker. In Dracula One of the most prominent things that happened during stoker’s time is Sigmund Freud ideologies‚ which were sweeping the philological field. Ego and sexuality are the biggest pieces of influence Stoker took from Freud. Freud argues that the superego drives the human’s subconscious‚ the superego controls us‚ Dracula is the superego to his subjects because he has control
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TITLE | SUMMARY | KEY QUOTES | The Bloody Chamber | A young girl travels on a train to her husband- the Marquis. While at his French castle‚ she learns that he takes enjoyment in her embarrassment. She is a pianist- a blind piano tuner hears her playing and falls in love with her. The Marquis tells her that he is leaving on business‚ forbidding her to enter one particular room. She enters the perverse room‚ encountering all the dead bodies of his previous wives. The girl realises that the Marquis
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------------------------------------------------- The "Least Count" of any measuring equipment is the smallest quantity that can be measured accurately using that instrument.Thus Least Count indicates the degree of accuracy of measurement that can be achieved by the measuring instrument. All measuring instruments used in physics have a least count. A meter ruler’s least count is 0.1 centimeter; an electronic scale has a least count of 0.001g‚ although this may vary; a vernier caliper has a least count of 0.02 millimeters‚ although
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lawyer wishes to hear Archer’s opinion‚ as he is closely connected with the family. Archer is uneasy with this proposition‚ but agrees to look over the papers concerning the settlement. In reading the letters‚ Archer comes across a letter written by Count Olenski that he feels
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Like many books from this time‚ Bram Stoker’s Dracula deals with one of the greatest human conflicts: the struggle between good and evil. In Dracula‚ Bram Stoker highlights the interplay of good and evil through the use of characters‚ symbols‚ and natural elements. Stoker acknowledges the complexity of the conflict by showing good characters attracted to evil. When Jonathan Harker goes into a room he discovers at the castle and falls asleep against the Count’s warning‚ he is encountered by three
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The Supernatural‚ a manifestation attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature (Literary Jewels)‚ examples of that would be ghosts‚ angels‚ and gigantic human sized bugs. The story containing supernatural elements may have a religious purpose‚ such the role of angels and demons in Islam‚ Judaism and Christianity; or the supernatural elements may portray notions about reality such as issues in social justice‚ discrimination‚ or alienation and the sense of belonging
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Latin American storytelling of the mythological Chupacabra‚ whose alleged sightings relate to those of aliens and vampires‚ regulate children’s behavior by implanting a fear of the unknown. Since 1995‚ stories about a strange‚ blood-sucking‚ goat-eating dog-like monster appear in many scholarly articles‚ journals‚ and books causing mass hysteria. With several misconceptions‚ witnesses believe the Chupacabra preyed on and mutilated goats and other farm animals. Articles‚ journals‚ books‚ and people’s
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The third research question focuses on the classic Gothic texts that are incorporated in this corpus. This research question refers to Clive Bloom’s list of significant horror and ghost tales provided in his book Gothic Horror (xiii-xvii). Since fear is part of the emotions of horror as well‚ an intense representation of its linguistic expressions is expected to be found in those works. A certain number of these horror tales were incorporated in the corpus too which were analysed in order to detect
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