Do Vampires Exist: Or Bite Me! Since the beginning or recorded history‚ there have been stories told about vampires. Bram Stoker’s renowned novel Dracula was published in 1897‚ and since then the myth about vampires has evolved and changed. We now have Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga and HBO’s True Blood examining whether vampires exist in the known world. Whatever you think‚ you should be aware that vampires are creations of fiction writers based on old folk tales. On the other hand there are
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Rhetorical Analysis (Women and Vampires: Nightmare or Utopia?) In our modern society‚ the term “vampire” has been stretched among such an enormous range of roles that it becomes almost impossible to accurately describe them. The recent trend of vampires and werewolves has taken a hold over pop culture‚ drawing mass amounts of attention over a huge audience. As I read the title of the essay‚ I feared I was in for a lecture on Twilight and the feminine roles in the stories. However‚ the author‚ Judith
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dragon in Latin. Dracul was an angry man‚ when he punished someone he would take his victims and stick them on stakes and them hang till dead and he would drink there blood on occasions thus the myth of the vampire in Bram Stalkers famous novel Dracula being based off of Count Dracul. After all this transpired that had affect the world and put them to fear that vampires were real and struck fear in our hearts and forever more. Now‚ for the gothic side and dominatrix side
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Imagination‚ (New York: Peter Lang Publishing‚ 2005) Peirse‚ Alison‚ "The impossibility of vision: Vampirism‚ formlessness and horror in Vampyr"‚ Studies in European Cinema‚ Vol.5‚ No.3 (2008)‚ Stoker‚ Bram “Dracula” (1897) reprint‚ (London: Penguin‚ 1993)‚ 274-5 “The Making of Bram Stoker ’s Dracula "Bloodlines" ‚Youtube‚ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szBO-Of5cOw> ‚ [accessed 8th March 2013] Wilcox‚ Rhonda‚ “Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer”‚ (New York: I.B. Tauris &
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Bram Stoker used his characters in Dracula to help portray the death of the Victorian Woman and the birth of the New Woman. During this time‚ women didn’t have the equal rights that men did. During the 19th century‚ women weren’t able to vote and usually stayed home to be housewives. This shows that women were accustomed to the conventional Victorian lifestyle‚ which meant that they rarely did anything outside of the house. Victorian woman didn’t play a big role in society‚ and were known as the
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later on you have feelings similar to pity for him‚ you are also introduced to this man‚ just a human man‚ who wants to make a film all about Nosferatu. But with this man‚ you do not sympathize or have any feelings for him. In the original works of Dracula and Nosferatu‚ it was always the vampire who was the villain‚ but in this movie‚ it was actually the director that had more monster-like qualities. We even see a whole scene of him in a cabaret club in the very beginning to wisp away any open-mindness
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century that the genre really started to blossom. In this century‚ a lot of classics that build the very fundament of the genre for years to come were written. Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” along with other classics like “Frankenstein” and “Dracula” are brilliant examples of groundbreaking works from the 19th century. One of the most prominent characteristics of horror is that nothing is too extreme. Horror stories are often explicit and violent‚ sometimes even to a grotesque extent. This
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Vlad III the Impaler Vlad III‚ Prince of Wallachia is seen by his own people as a hero and by his enemies as a merciless villain. Vlad played a significant role during the Ottoman invasion‚ and the call of the third crusade to fight them off. During the 1456‚ he built a notorious reputation for himself from which legends and folk stories were born. Vlad III‚ also known as Vlad the Impaler‚ was born in Sighisoara during the winter of 1431 to Vlad II Dracul‚ the future ruler of Wallachia
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Bram Stoker was a European author who wrote during the Victorian movement (1837-1901). During this literary period‚ authors focused their works around a multitude of topics‚ including‚ but not limited to‚ nature‚ the growing population and the industrial revolution in Europe‚ the relationships between people and their environment‚ the events that follow when one leaves their community‚ and how an individual’s actions affect either themselves or other people. Stoker explores some of these topics of
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Jasmine Mitchell Dr. A. Peever HUM 396-05: The Horror Story September 27th 2012 Rotten horror as if Rotten Blood Critic Shannon Winnubst says‚ “The collective nightmare AIDS performs some of our worst cultural anxieties about desire‚ fear‚ and aggression; about gender‚ sexuality‚ and race; about history‚ bodies‚ and violence.” As unpleasant as it is to deal with AIDS Patients (vampires)‚ when a crime results in bloodshed‚ the blood left behind functions as evidence for investigators (people)
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