“Betwixt Sunset and Sunrise”: Liminality in Dracula Mark M. Hennelly‚ Jr. [Mark M. Hennelly‚ Jr.‚ a Professor of English at California State University‚ Sacramento‚ has published fairly widely on Victorian fiction‚ including several liminal readings of Dracula.] In various ways‚ among widely different primitive peoples‚ the marriage customs go to show that the home threshold cannot be passed except by overcoming a barrier of some kind‚ and making an offering‚ bloody or bloodless‚ at
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Edgar Allan Poe‚ is an American poet‚ whose primary genre is gothic literature. Gothic literature is defined by a genre of literature that has a combination of primarily horror and romance. In Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem‚ “The Raven” he portrays many different gothic elements‚ which in turn made it one of the most widely known poetic examples of gothic literature. The basic elements of gothic literature are easily noticeable. He talks about his love‚ Lenore‚ who is unfortunately no longer with
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Dracula by Bram Stoker and The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe Any text that is composed is written to fit into the society that it is written for. A genre must evolve and modernise itself to remain relevant and interesting to the target audience. In “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe and “Dracula” by Bram Stoker‚ the composers have both adapted their stories to appeal the people of their time. “Dracula” by Bram Stoker used many of the conventions of the gothic genre to appeal to the Victorian
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Aaron Ma ID: 301227201 Course: ENGL 101W Section: D905 Date: 15 June 2014 Liminality in Dracula Stoker’s novel is riddled with examples of liminality‚ most significantly the title character Count Dracula‚ who is neither living or dead but‚ as Van Helsing calls him‚ one of the “un-dead”‚ existing in this threshold state. This essay will analyze liminality in Dracula in Modernity‚ Christian Salvation‚ Science and Superstition. Firstly‚ this novel shows the
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Charlotte Bronte the gothic style of writing is used to help bring out the different themes. There are gothic qualities within the novel such as the usage of masks‚ the atmosphere in many of the scenes‚ and a heroin being the main character and living “happily ever after”. This essay will analyze how the gothic style is used within the novel. First and foremost the reader is introduced to the narrator and main character of the novel: Jane Eyre. It is very common to see in gothic tales that the lead
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Gothic Horror is a term used to depict fictitious work that has incorporated a lot of horror scenes as well as elements of the unreal world‚ exploring the conflict between good and evil and dealing with the supernatural in some sort of way. The episodic novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker in 1897 and the movie Blade by Stephen Norrington created in 1998 bring to the fore many conventions relating to the Gothic Horror genre despite their vastly different contexts. Gothic elements of imprisonment
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Discuss how Bram Stoker portrays femininity in Dracula? Bram Stoker uses both the female and the male characters to present femininity in Dracula. Stoker uses characters like Dracula to explore the sexuality of women and to express the idea that it is morally wrong and dangerous for a woman to be voluptuous and if she is‚ she will suffer the consequences. Additionally‚ the two most important female characters in Dracula‚ Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra‚ are used by Stoker to present different female
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Katelyn Poniatowski Professor Kanicki English 212 18 November 2013 Dracula Film and Movie Comparison Most anyone will say that a book is always better than a movie. This is simply due to the fact that it is impossible to fit every detail that a book can hold into a two-hour long movie. I was beyond surprised to discover that this was not the case when comparing Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel and Bram Stoker’s Dracula the movie. I found myself preferring the movie rendition. There were many
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Edgar Allan Poe; one of the most famous gothic writer known to America. His work consists of dark mysteries which mostly revolve around death. Many say that the reason of Poe’s gothic writing style would be because of his past. It is well known that Poe’s work would reflect himself in one way or another. As a matter of fact‚ according to a short story written in 1839 titled‚ “An overview of the ‘Tell Tale Heart‚’” John Chua mentions that “Critics who have studied Poe sometimes suggest that his characters
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The Yellow Wallpaper and The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde represent the gothic genre‚ it can be viewed as too simplistic because of the complexity within the Gothic genre; both showing clear distinct differences between each other. ‘Dr.J+Mr.H’ explores the Duality of man through the beast like character of Mr. Hyde‚ with clear conventions of the Classic Gothic. TYW on the other hand representing the modern Gothic‚ replacing the supernatural with the irrational‚ which is not seen as monstrous
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