Professor Sandra Snow ENG 323-11500-22132943 1 April 2011 Social and Historical Effects Responsible for the Conception of the Fantastic and Supernatural in Gothic Horror Bram Stoker’s Dracula debuted in Victorian England at the end of the nineteenth century. Not the first vampire story of its time‚ it certainly made one of the most lasting impressions on modern culture‚ where tales of the supernatural‚ horror‚ witchcraft‚ possession‚ demoniacs‚ vampires‚ werewolves‚ zombies‚ aliens‚
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by Richelle Mead and if I do say so myself‚ this book was a very interesting read. I have to praise Miss. Mead for keeping the suspense alive throughout the novel and toying with the idea of what a vampire is‚ which I created in my gothic novel‚ Dracula. I also admire her addition of “Dhamphirs” to the vampire genre and the names that she endowed these mystical creatures‚ like “Moroi” and “Strigoi”. I commend her various additions to the history of vampires that Van Helsing touched on when he was
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DRACULA V.S TWILIGHT Bram Stokers Dracula and Twilights Edward Cullen may both be vampires but don’t have much in common. Dracula could not go out in the sun. Edward Cullen can. Although when he does he sparkles‚ which makes things a little difficult when going out in public. Dracula hunted people. He took human lives for blood. Edward Cullen and his family consider themselves “vegetarians” only hunting animals for blood. Dracula slept in a coffin. Edward Cullen doesn’t sleep. Ever.
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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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The animated film Hotel Transylvania‚ (2012)‚ directed by Genndy Tartakovsky is based on the original Dracula novel published in 1897‚ written by Bram Stoker. This film is an animated comedy with the sub-genre of horror. The purpose of the horror in this film is to scare alongside entertain the audience. Therefore‚ comedy is the main genre in the film Hotel Transylvania‚ because the intended audience is children. Some horror conventions used in this film include setting‚ characters‚ plot and ideas
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Loosely based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker‚ the film is the story of a realtor named Jonathon who travels to Dracula’s castle in order to close a house deal. He goes there despite many warnings and soon discovers that Dracula
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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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Consuming in its very essence‚ it rots away at anything that was once considered pure or moral. Dashiell Hammett ’s "Red Harvest" and Bram Stoker ’s "Dracula" are stories that effectively demonstrate the disastrous and catastrophic effects on society by the unbridled greed‚ ambition and lust of its inhabitants. Most importantly‚ both the characters of Dracula and Dinah Brand use sexuality and lust as a launching pad for their blind greed. Their decisions to follow their ravenousness hunger for personal
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legend in England suicides were buried with a stake pierced in or near the heart. This was to ensure that that the ghost of the person would not come back and haunt the living‚ to prevent the suicide victim from becoming a vampire (Kayton 305). In Dracula‚ Lucy was killed after she had already started to haunt the living. She was killed after with a stake driven through her heart as a "duty to others" and to the dead‚ so that she may truly be "passed away"‚ as "God ’s true dead" (266‚ 277-279).
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homosexuality and used those feelings as a basis for their novels. Bram Stoker told a story about a vampire that challenged the Victorian gender roles and managed to reverse them‚ making men faint like women‚ and making women powerful like men‚ and called it Dracula. Mary Shelley created a a physical being out of a man’s suppressed homosexuality due to his Victorian male upbringing; a man named Frankenstein. Robert Stevenson described what happens when a homosexual male attempts to live double lives to cover
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