more than a horror. Although Shelley originally wrote her novel as part of a ‘ghost story’ competition amongst friends‚ it is more complex and deals with greater issues than those of a fictional ghost story. While Frankenstein creates the path for Dracula and other great Gothic novels with the ability to thrill whilst exciting disgust and horror‚ it also shows much more realistic horrors‚ which set the path of true terror. For obvious reasons‚ Frankenstein is interpreted as a classic horror 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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need of such talent. Freund influenced horror movies after he raised the bar with fluid camera movements as well as low lightening in his movies. Both of these techniques became popular for movies after the talented Freund used these techniques in Dracula. After a remarkable career in cinematography Freund changed his career and became a photographer in Hollywood. He was responsible for the famous sitcom I love Lucy in which 400 episodes were produced. Many Americans enjoyed the sitcom before his death
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Nosferatu (1922)‚ directed by F. W. Murnau and also known as the first big screen version of Stocker’s “Dracula”‚ is considered a cinematic masterpiece. In this silent movie‚ Hutter‚ a real estate employee‚ is assigned by his boss to visit Count Orlock (the vampire) who shows interest in a residence‚ and in Hutter’s wife‚ Ellen. The mise-en-scene and Murnau’s style of expressionism in this movie makes it one of the most “naturalistically-creepy” movie. The connotations quoting Cavallius in the
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encourage you to wiki vampire bats... and also a central european king called Vlad the Impaler (approx 12th century i beleive) However i am gonna speak of thevampire the in fictional story sense only. When Bram stoker originally wrote his masterpiece "Dracula" I doubt he had little idea the impact that his story wouldhave on literature... the idea to write of terror and macabre were relatively new things at thetime andit was quite a erotic novel. Although written in 1897 (80 years after Mary Shelly’s "Frankenstein")
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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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Elizabeth Bathory: a human vampire? From childhood we have heard thousands of stories of monsters‚ vampires‚ chupacabras‚ omnis‚ etc.. but bearing in mind they are a fantasy. Generation after generation continues repeating these stories to entertain and sometimes to frighten our acquaintances. They are stories full of imagination that we try to turn them into reality using strange events occurring around us. Many think that these characters are fictional but for others they are as real as the
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blood from their bodies. Since that initial report by ancient Babylonians there have been accounts of vampires that extend around the globe and all the way up to the present day. From Bram Stoker’s classily cloaked European depiction of vampires in Dracula to the Chinese Jiangshi documented by scholar Ji Xiaolan of the Qing Dynasty to the modern day societies of vampires that exist alongside the rest of the population in various countries throughout the world. Similar to tales of vampires‚ cannibalism
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their image‚ and a skewed perspective of what relationships should be like. Dracula‚ a Gothic horror novel written by Bram Stoker in 1897‚ presents a clear depiction of how fatal it can be if society continues idealizing women. He writes about the idealistic woman‚ Lucy Westrena; a pure virgin woman that just submits to the males far more educated than her. She literally dies from her lack of knowledge about Dracula. On the contrary‚ he also writes about Mina Harker who represents the new woman
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theme in the book. The 19th century was a time where literature transferred from the romantic‚ uplifting writing style to a dark‚ horror-based‚ demonic way of writing. Along with the publishing of Victor Frankenstein‚ in 1818‚ the story behind Dracula and several other horror stories. Events such as the War of 1812‚ slavery‚ and the tension leading up to the Civil War can be related
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