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    Dracula’s message and theme The words of dracula mean more than is read by most. The Symbols throughout Dracula‚ have often been thought to mean many diffrent things throughout history. It is believed by most that a large number of the themes are catholic oriented‚ Which is very understandable due to the books time period and what the book consists of. Also a number of the symbols stood against females being anything but a mother or wife. The battle of good versus

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    2 Otherness basically means being different. Not different because you want to be‚ but different because somebody else makes you different. It’s when another group of people who may have some differences than you act as if they are better than you. They are making you an other. You are someone other or not like them and not up to their standards. According to the course of study‚ otherness results in prejudice‚ discrimination‚ inequality‚ oppression‚ and genocide. (Pearson‚ pg 12) Otherness results

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    Dracula is about the defeat of a blood-thirsty‚ devilish vampire‚ but his demise could not have been accomplished without the use of the Christian religion. The team uses a variety of symbols from Christianity that killed Dracula and protects them from being harmed. Dracula is this Satanic being that in the end is defeated by the power of God. In Dracula‚ Bram Stoker uses various Christian symbols in the fight against Dracula‚ the satanic being‚ to illustrate the good of Christian religion and the

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    Part A Otherness is the process when a group of people single out another person or a group of people based on their perceived differences from them. The singled out group or person (the “others”) could be different because of their sex‚ skin color‚ religion or anything else that is different from the people who are doing the “othering.” However‚ being different doesn’t necessarily mean you are being othered. Othering occurs when you are teased‚ belittled‚ or otherwise rejected from general

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    An Essay on "Otherness"

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    characteristics possessed by the group‚ the Other is almost always seen as lesser or inferior being and is treated accordingly” (The Other‚ 2009). A group sets guidelines and if a person does not meet them they will not be accepted as “normal”. Otherness to a group represents awkwardness. Although each person does have its own unique characteristics to prevent from being labeled as the Other you must possess common characteristics within a group. I read “This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix‚ Arizona”

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    denigration of the other group. Since American society is very diversified‚ it is all too common for everyone to be exposed to Otherness. Such practices are likely to have powerful repercussions and often begin at childhood and continue throughout adulthood. In the essay‚ Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood‚ Richard Rodriguez recalls his first experiences with Otherness at a young and vulnerable age. The concept was all too real as a Spanish-speaking child of Mexican immigrants‚ attending an all-English

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    ‘The concept of being an other or outsider appeals to most readers’ Explore the methods writers use to present otherness. Writers like to present the idea of characters having a sense of otherness and being different from the norm‚ as they want to make a relatable character that is more true to life. In wuthering heights the nature of the multiple narrators means that a sense of otherness and strangeness is preserved. For example Nelly’s narrative is so dramatised that we could argue that much of

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    Otherness in Literature

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    Otherness is a term in literature that means the quality of being different. When a character in literature is the other‚ that character is seen as not fitting in or being different in a fundamental way (Melani‚ 2010). Another important feature of otherness is that it can take many different forms. It can also be based on a number of different factors. A person or group of people may base their othering on things like race‚ religion‚ gender‚ or social class. Also‚ the person or group of people

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    Texts such as the novel Dracula‚ and the film Interview with the Vampire‚ are often shaped by the values and attitudes within society at the particular time in which it was created. As a result‚ the context plays a major role in the construction of a text. In Dracula‚ a novel in epistolary format set and published in 1897 by Bram Stoker‚ not only do the concepts of sexuality‚ religion‚ family‚ technology‚ class and gender roles reflect the way they were viewed in the Victorian era‚ but the actual

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    “To what extent do the themes of Dracula reflect the social‚ cultural and historical context in which the novel is set? “ In one’s novel‚ themes successfully assist to highlight the social‚ cultural and historical context in which can impact the experience one can face. In ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker we are confronted by three protagonist who are un aware of the fact that vampires are lurking around‚ they experience various attacks and shocking discoveries which leads them to a new concept on the world

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