Consuming in its very essence‚ it rots away at anything that was once considered pure or moral. Dashiell Hammett ’s "Red Harvest" and Bram Stoker ’s "Dracula" are stories that effectively demonstrate the disastrous and catastrophic effects on society by the unbridled greed‚ ambition and lust of its inhabitants. Most importantly‚ both the characters of Dracula and Dinah Brand use sexuality and lust as a launching pad for their blind greed. Their decisions to follow their ravenousness hunger for personal
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legend in England suicides were buried with a stake pierced in or near the heart. This was to ensure that that the ghost of the person would not come back and haunt the living‚ to prevent the suicide victim from becoming a vampire (Kayton 305). In Dracula‚ Lucy was killed after she had already started to haunt the living. She was killed after with a stake driven through her heart as a "duty to others" and to the dead‚ so that she may truly be "passed away"‚ as "God ’s true dead" (266‚ 277-279).
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homosexuality and used those feelings as a basis for their novels. Bram Stoker told a story about a vampire that challenged the Victorian gender roles and managed to reverse them‚ making men faint like women‚ and making women powerful like men‚ and called it Dracula. Mary Shelley created a a physical being out of a man’s suppressed homosexuality due to his Victorian male upbringing; a man named Frankenstein. Robert Stevenson described what happens when a homosexual male attempts to live double lives to cover
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have frightened people for centuries. Modern society is really intrigued by horrific sights and vampires are being used to portray the same effect to the audience. An example of a text that has used the concepts of vampires is “Dracula: by Bram Stroker”. He portrays Dracula‚ the vampire‚ as intelligent‚ strong and cunning. He is said to live in an isolated castle which is gloomy and dull‚ and whoever steps foot in there feels like a prisoner. He is described to have a thin nose and arched nostrils
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Vampire Essay The text Dracula was written in a time long before post-modernism‚ when Victorian values were considered important and issues relating gender were established. Nosferatu was also written in the time of modernism‚ where there was a sense in that western culture had lost its values. Shadow of a Vampire is a recent‚ post-modern text that focuses on the filming methods and techniques used to film Nosferatu. Using post-modern techniques that are comparable to satire in some scenes‚ Shadow
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acknowledge that true and historical vampires are cold blooded killers. In todays modern times‚ the vampire has been remade to appeal to viewers and culture‚ but has strayed from the true vampire ideals of the works of Bram Strokers’ novel Dracula. Bram Stoker is using Dracula as a metaphor to show us that Vampires are one of form evil in the world because evil can take many shapes. Vampires try to be nice on the outside while on the inside they are soulless and evil. It is hard to believe that we have people
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Eyre commenting on ideas including love‚ social class and gender. Jane Eyre allowed Bronte to develop her ideas and opinions about her society at the time thoroughly. Another author who uses the art form of the novel is Bram Stoker‚ with his novel Dracula. Stoker makes known his anxieties and the anxieties that characterised his age: the repercussions of scientific advancement and the dangers of female sexuality. Jane Eyre discusses the idea of love verses autonomy. It is very much the story
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Wallachia was feared and was called Vlad the Impaler (Hosier‚ n.d.). In today’s modern world‚ the historical vampire has acquired so many faces; from the myths and legends arose three creatures of the night that has struck literature and film – Stoker’s Dracula‚ Rice’s Louis‚ and Meyer’s Edward. There has been a great shift in perspectives and in the characterization of these beings. Too see how the depiction of a vampire has changed from beinga bloodthirsty shape shifter who seeks revenge to being a frustrated
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growing civility and refinement fostered by our society. I read Dracula as a criticism of an individualistic search for power. Take away the supernatural elements and the story is of a man who gains power by ruining the lives of others. Bram Stoker’s motivation for writing Dracula was likely not one-dimensional. While there is the obvious attempt to play on the fear of foreigners‚ I think it is incredibly important to remember that Dracula is not the typical foreigner. Even when you disregard the
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Taking its origins from a poorly reviewed movie‚ the 1997 TV how by the same creator‚ Joss Whedon‚ brought to the screen a 16-year-old high school student whose destiny was to “stand against the vampires‚ the demons‚ the forces of darkness. She is the slayer” (Whedon‚ 1997). The introduction of Buffy The Vampire Slayer (BTVS)‚ as a character‚ though not a new one‚ was revolutionary. Challenging the preconceptions of traditional horror‚ comedy‚ romance and teen movies‚ Whedon has created a character
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