TARNÓW STATE COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Mateusz BILIŃSKI PORTRAIT OF FEMME FATALE IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE Project presented in part fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Licentiate in Tarnów State College‚ written under the supervision of dr Dominika Ruszkiewicz TARNÓW 2013 CONTENTS
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The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker‚1897 has been adapted into a film Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ made in 1992. This film is an accurate and exceptionally well done adaptation of the novel. What made this adaptation so good was how it was put together; from the cast‚ to the added romance‚ to incorporating all important ideas from the novel into the film‚ without making it un-cinematic. Francis Ford Coppola (the producer of the film) chose the right cast to depict the characters just as imagined in the
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20th century: his vampire epic Dracula. Ever since Dracula‚ Transylvania‚ and castles have been associative of vampirism‚ the world has become “bloody”. There are slight deviations to the novel‚ but the majority of them are fairly partial to the novel. Worldly views show Dracula as an old man with a new face. The inception of Bram Stoker’s Dracula has been the melting pot of the recreations and incarnations of the world’s deadliest‚ blood-sucking vampire‚ Count Dracula. On a bumpy train ride to the
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standards and beliefs of the dominant class. Bram Stoker’s novel‚ ’Dracula’ represents a class struggle not between the bourgeois society and the proletariat society where the proletariats would attempt to rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie‚ but rather between the capitalist bourgeois and the character of Dracula as a monopolist. Dracula worked in relation to bourgeois fears of domination from above - from a monopolistic Dracula. Franco Moretti has argued that this text "was a desperate attempt
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disappointment. There are a number of masculine stereotypes that are often found in Victorian literature. These include men limiting and controlling their feelings and emotions‚ rules on how men are to treat women‚ the economic and social standing that men are expected to achieve‚ and finally‚ how men influence family life.
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In the Victorian world‚ men‚ for the most part‚ have substantially greater influence than women in everyday society in many different ways. Men make important political decisions for the well being of their families‚ while women tend to the normal chores of keeping the house clean and the children in check. “The Victorian Era was one of great social flux; tremendous advances in science and technology called into question deeply held religious beliefs while the changing legal status of women threatened
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Lauren Hobbie The Women of Victorian England Women have been treated poorly throughout history‚ and Victorian England was no exception. In Victorian times‚ the women of England were treated considerably worse than the men‚ in such ways that would be considered immoral or illegal to today’s society. Viewed as second-class citizens‚ the women of this era lacked many rights that men possessed‚ and equality was not something that existed between men and women. Even though in modern times females are
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Child Labor in Victorian England "The report described the children as Chained‚ belted‚ harnessed like dogs black‚ saturated with wet‚ and more than half-naked‚ crawling upon their hands and knees‚ and dragging their heavy loads behind them’" (Yancey 34). This quote from Ivor Brown probably best describes the strenuous work preformed by a child laborer during the Victorian Era. Child laborers played an important part in developing the country’s economy. Children‚ one of the main sources of
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Examine how Victorian writers portray the experience of childhood. Victorian writers often explore the idea of childhood‚ with themes of persecution‚ education and religion being commonly prevalent. Specifically‚ the negative aspects of childhood seem to be explored in a manner in which writers use hyperbolic and satirical means to express their critique. The persecution of children seems a recurring theme in Victorian literature at which writers show their dismay‚ focusing on the oppression of
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Victorian Mores In Jane Eyre During the Victorian era‚ it was only acceptable to abide by a set of unspoken rules acknowledged by society called mores. Some of the mores that were present in the eighteenth-century time period included the importance of the family‚ high standards of morality and decency‚ and that people must be punished or rewarded for their actions and deeds. Although these mores are not present in modern culture‚ invisible laws still exist in society today and need to be brought
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