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    Lucy In Dracula

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    In Bram Stoker’s novel‚ Dracula‚ Stoker portrays many different aspects of women’s roles in the nineteenth century. Women had a strictly defined role within the era; there was no thought of equality‚ no thought that women could liberate themselves sexually. Stoker uses women in this novel to critique against women’s liberation. Stoker’s portrayal of women makes the novel seem like a fantasy. Women are primarily objects of delicate beauty who occasionally need to be rescued from danger. In the novel

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    Industrial revolution represented in Dracula and Frankenstein The world was going through a major change when Frankenstein and Dracula were published. The U.S and Europe were the main forces of the Industrial Revolution‚ which was basically the transition from humans completing tasks using their own hands or tools‚ to humans using machines to do those things for them‚ due to the fact that it made their lives easier. However‚ not everyone was fond of the idea of modernization. Mary Shelly feared

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    Dracula Summary

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    Dracula Summary Dracula is an epistolary novel‚ meaning that is composed from letters‚ journal and diary entries‚ telegrams‚ and newspaper clippings. Jonathan Harker‚ Mina Murray (later Mina Harker)‚ and Dr. Seward write the largest contributions to the novel‹although the writings of Lucy Westenra and Abraham Van Helsing constitute some key parts of the book. The novel is meant to have a slightly journalistic feel‚ as it is a harrowing account supposedly written by the people who witnessed the

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    Young Dracula

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    The world is poised on the edge ready to plunge into darkness under the rule of Vladimir Dracula until an ancient prophecy comes to light which places all of vampire kind in mortal danger. WHO WOULD DIE AND WHO WOULD LIVE.....that is the question that is left unanswered How would your feel about watching a breath taking tv programme which will leave you gasping for air every passing second‚ anxiously jumping up and down like a mad dog eager to find out if your beloved hero is going to save the day

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    Gothic horror

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    Mad scientists ( Dr. Frankenstein)‚ vampires (Dracula)‚ werewolfs‚ mummies‚ ghosts‚ murderers‚ and other monsters. Excess: Something there is too much of or overdoing things. It deals with things that are excessive and extreme. Transgression: To cross lines or break boundaries. Often it deals with people breaking rules or laws. Vampires transgress the boundaries of life and death. Werewolves trangress from man to animal. A lot of gothic literature deals with struggers between binaires

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    Sexism in Dracula

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    to become wives due to their economic reliance on men. Bram Stoker‚ either willingly or unwillingly‚ used his novel Dracula‚ to further portray the stereotype that women are inferior to men. In the novel Dracula‚ Bram Stoker conveys the stereotype that men are superior to women. In the Victorian Era‚ men believed that they were smarter and more capable of achieving more. In Dracula‚ Van Helsing was speaking to Jonathan Parker when he said "A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when

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    Feminism In Dracula

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    article‚ Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ she argues the “pre-Oedipal focus of the fantasies‚ specifically the child’s relation with and hostility toward the mother‚ and to indicate how the novel’s fantasies are managed in such a

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    Dracula And Feminism

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    Both characters fall victim to Dracula‚ but they handled their situations very differently‚ and the way they handle it shows how much Mina is more of a leader than Lucy. After Lucy is turned into a vampire‚ she changes completely‚ from her appearance to her attitude‚ while Mina takes action after being turned. The article‚ The Brilliance of Mina Harkeralso expresses the statement‚ “...Mina refuses to stay a victim. She takes advantage of her psychic link with Dracula in order to find his location

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    Dracula, Women of

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    Lucy Westerna and Mina Harker are the only two female characters Bram Stoker describes in detail in the novel Dracula. Lucy and Mina are two of the three characters that the reader sees becoming a vampire‚ and both characters are narrators. It is clear that these two play a very important role in the novel. Their actions have a huge effect on the way the novel unfolds. Lucy and Mina have many differences and similarities in representing the Victorian women. Lucy represents all of the evil traits

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    dracula summary

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    29 out of the 50 boxes were left Mina has her first encounter with Dracula Van Helsing went to visit Renfield Mina begins to blame herself for Lucys death Jhonathan went to visit Thomas Snelling Jonathan went to visit Potters Court Renfield tries to plead his case so he can be free Renfield get brutally attacked Mina is bitten again by Dracula Renfield reveals how he is attack Mina tells her “dream” Dracula had burned the manuscripts Renfield dies All the men goes to Piccadilly

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