comfort to them. She supports everyone like a mother would do to her child. “We men were all in tears now. There was no resisting them‚ and we wept openly” (Stoker‚ 287). Mina held everyone together during Lucy’s death and also just dealing with Dracula. She asked them to kill her before she becomes a vampire‚ which brought everyone into tears‚ which shows how much respect they all hold for her‚ because of just the amazing person she is. “ I would haves screamed out‚ only I was paralyzed… he spoke
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no fears‚ no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing the comes nightly‚ and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” Bram Stoker‚ Taking a look of the life of a man with a mind to create the most infamous and famous story. The vampire with a taste for blood‚ Dracula. His parents abraham and Charlotte Matilda Blake were involved in getting things done. Abraham stoker was a civil servant‚ Charlotte stoker became a social activist He has no siblings to my knowledge nor does research. Born in 1847‚ In clontarf‚ Ireland
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EXTENDED ESSAY The vampire – From Dracula to Twilight. What defines the vampire? I got a C for this EE 05-09-2012 Word count: 3204 Abstract The novel “Twilight” is ‘in ’ at the moment therefore focuses this extended essay on vampires and the transformation from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” to Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight”. The essay focuses on if the vampire has stayed the same and over the century that is between these books focusing on the differences and
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Gothic novels often were set in Gothic-style castles and churches. Gothic fiction‚ which reached the height of its popularity in the late 18th to mid-19th centuries‚ was a genre of fiction that focused on the darker‚ irrational and more terrifying aspects of life. The Gothic novel was a reaction against the Enlightenment‚ which saw the world and humans as ordered and logical. Gothic conventions have remained popular and are still found in novels‚ music and film. 1. Conventions of Setting o "Gothic"
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literature is portrayed as an innocent‚ helpless maiden‚ passive‚ vulnerable‚ dependant and weak. However‚ a common theme in gothic novels is for this feeble female to feel sympathy for the villain‚ for example‚ Elizabeth in Frankesntein‚ Lucy in Dracula and Ophelia in Hamlet‚ sadly‚ this usually results in the innocent females tragic death such as Ophelia’s untimely suicide‚ which‚ similarly is seen in another of Shakespeare’s women‚ Lady Macbeth‚ although this female is certainly not fitting to
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THE AMERICAN HORROR CINEMA Christophe CHAMBOST ISIC.L2.cinéma Evaluation : Un devoir sur table en examen terminal avec 2 questions de cours (exemple : une question sur le gothique et une question sur un cinéaste) → 50% de la note Un dossier à faire en groupe : prendre une scène d’un film fantastique Américain qui nous paraît intéressante Fantastic The origin of the fantastic as a literary genre started in the 18th century. At that time there was no films but there was an interest for the macabre
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Johnathan Rubio 11/15/11 9th period In Charles Dickens novel “A Tale of Two Cities” he expresses a tone of disgust through the use of sarcasm‚ alliteration‚ and repetition. Tone is the writer’s attitude towards the subject‚ and in this case Charles Dickens shows disgust towards Monseigneor. In his story he uses sarcasm to describe how selfish Monseigneur is. For example he states “Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only
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gothic novel. Strange places It is usual for characters in Gothic fiction to find themselves in a strange place; somewhere other‚ different‚ mysterious. It is often threatening or violent. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ for example‚ a young lawyer’s clerk‚ suddenly finds himself trapped within Castle Dracula. That scene occurs in Central Europe‚ but often in classic Gothic fiction it takes place in distant‚ ‚ mysterious southern Europe Clashing time periods Just as places are often mysterious‚ lost‚ dark
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novels set in the eighteenth century that involve romanticism‚horror and madness .Interestingly Gothic novels aim to not only create suspense driven plots but to also trigger strong emotions in the reader. The novels Frankenstein by Mary Shelley‚ Dracula by Bram Stoker and The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson all fall under the Gothic Genre‚each exploring different forms of supernatural beings. Each novel fulfills the elements of a classic Gothic novel as they all emphasize
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From a contemporary cultural view‚ Dracula might appear to be more than just an old man‚ who tries to find white young women to satisfy his sexual appetite and his bloodlust (Stevenson qtd. in Durocher 57). This old and creepy man Dracula impersonates is far away from the depiction of modern vampires‚ who are young‚ sexually desirable and handsome. Nevertheless‚ vampire men stay a danger
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