Dracula reflects both Bram Stoker’s context and his interest in controversial ideas. Use ‘Dracula’ and ‘Van Helsing’ to demonstrate what concepts and concerns have endured and how they have been represented in both texts. JUSTIN LIANG Dracula ( novel) written by Bram stoker is a text which reflects its English Victorian era context‚ where gender roles were repressed and science and religion had a conflicting relationship. Van Helsing (Stephen Summers) is a contemporary reproduction which demonstrates
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Literary Background—Trends in the Victorian NovelWhen we speak of the Victorian novel we do not mean that there was a conscious school of the English novel‚ with a consciously common style and subject-matter‚ a school which began creating with the reign of Queen Victoria and which came to an end with the end of that reign. The English are too individualistic for such conformity. However‚ there can be no denying the fact that the English novel during second half of the nineteenth century‚ with the
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Transformation of Dracula Dracula is a timeless novel written by Bram Stoker and to this day remains a thrilling read about good vs evil in the form of Van Helsing and his companions pitted against the supernatural forces of Count Dracula‚ the vampire from Transylvania. Not only was this novel about good vs. evil but upon inspection found to have many themes and views relevant to the time it was written. This caused it to be a huge success of its time and in 1922 the German director Murnau seeing
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by Hammer’s Dracula Collection (1958-1974) featuring Christopher Lee‚ Dracula Lord of the Dammed (2011)‚ Dracula Reborn (2012)‚ Dracula (2013) and many more. All of these adaptations have had varying amounts of success‚ but so many have been made so it begs the question did we really need another to add to this long list? Throughout the years Dracula’s character has been revised so many times‚ transforming dependent on Hollywood’s needs at the time. Original representations of Dracula are one dimensional
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The Victorian Age 1832-1900 Even idleness is eager now‚ eager for amusement; prone to excursion-trains‚ artmuseums‚ periodical literature‚ and exciting novels. (George Eliot) General Info About the Time • Enormous changes occurred in political and social life in England and the rest of the world • The scientific and technical innovations of the Industrial Revolution‚ the emergence of modern nationalism‚ and the European colonization of much of Africa‚ the Middle East‚ and the Far
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different sections‚ each representing different era of the British history. The sections were the Elizabethan era‚ the Jacobean era‚ the Georgian era‚ the Victorian era and the modern era. The staff was also dressed according to the era they’ve been in. It felt so realistic that in every section I felt like I really was literally back in the time. * ------------------------------------------------- The best part – eating! In the Elizabethan era section the dishes were mostly desserts‚ which
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Victorian Attitudes – Zoe Buchanan 1.. During Queen Victoria’s reign‚ Women were supposed to stay in the home. They were supposed to do household chores‚ cooking cleaning and stay and look after the children. 2… Most poor women worked in the workhouse‚ or in factories. Sometimes they did work but told no-one about it‚ so that they could have money without their husbands knowing. 3… A dowry is any form of goods (i.e. money‚ property etc.) that a bride may bring to her husband as a gift
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LEVEL 3 PENGUIN READERS Teacher Support Programme Dracula Bram Stoker for help. Lucy dies and is buried. A number of children are then found with marks on their necks and Van Helsing knows that Lucy has come back to life as a vampire. He and his companions go to the coffin and push a wooden stake into her heart and cut off her head. Van Helsing sets out a plan to kill Dracula. The men first go to Carfax House‚ where Dracula is thought to be hiding‚ but they find nothing except old
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Women in Victorian Novels The ideas and standards that are set with being a proper Victorian woman are starting to become questioned. Through these novels there are subtle hints portrayed throughout the book of women being able to make their own choices and finally have their own independence. Some women choose to take the opportunity and have a say while others still abide by the Victorian way. Louis J Boyle Victorian Writers 30 April 2013
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Victorian Thinkers (Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin) Victorian Thinkers contains studies of four of the most influential critics of 19th-century British culture. Each was heralded a prophet in his own lifetime‚ and yet each was also regarded as misguided‚ and even mad‚ by his contemporaries. Their interests in art and culture led them to develop views on society and economics. Carlyle was a writer of extraordinary stature‚ radical in thought and style; Ruskin‚ who began his career as a critic of
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