Literature Circles #2 Question 4: Matthew Ma Describe Dracula as a simple tale of good versus evil. Which characters or ideas does Stoker depict as "good"? Which does he depict as "evil"? How do these characters and ideas conflict within the story? Dracula is evidently a classic book of good versus evil. Anywhere in the book‚ the two sides are always standing against each other. Backing up just how evil Dracula is‚ Jonathan inquires on page 70‚ “He might kill me‚ but death now seemed
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Carlos Dena Honors English 11 5/20/13 Critical Analysis on Dracula With several illicit subjects listed throughout Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ the book becomes a playground for psychoanalysts. Whether it be to see a subjects as simple as the conscious take over a character‚ or a character’s surroundings corrupting its victims‚ Dracula intrigues in more ways than just its vampiristic features. The following is a psychoanalytic study with a focus on vampirism imitating sexual practice and drug usage today
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In Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ animalistic imagery is seen throughout the play and intertwines many characters. There are two main types of animalistic behaviors seen in the play. First there are the common predator-prey relationships that are visible in all animalistic societies. In the animal kingdom there is a food chain where some smarter or more cunning animal hunts or tracks down the weaker animal‚ thus a predator-prey relationship. Second is the idea that the people in the play are similar
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In Dracula‚ Dracula’s house is shown as a dark‚ gloomy and creepy castle. Bram Stoker shows how the setting is affected by the atmosphere by going into detail of how Jonathan Harker feels when approaching Dracula’s house for the first time. On the trip to Dracula’s house Jonathan noticed the townsmen reacting strangely once they found out that he was heading to Dracula’s castle alone. One of the citizens ended up giving Jonathan a crucifix and told him that it was a charm or guard against the evil
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Summary The novel begins with the diary kept by Jonathan Harker‚ an English solicitor‚ or lawyer‚ as he travels through Central Europe on the business of his firm. He is on his way to the castle of Count Dracula‚ a Transylvanian nobleman‚ to conclude a deal in which the Count will purchase an English estate. We learn that he has just qualified to be a solicitor‚ this is his first assignment as a professional‚ and he is engaged to a young woman named Mina Murray. Harker describes in detail
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Animal Farm uses symbolic imagery to allude to the titular events that unfolded during the Russian revolution‚ and uses many devices to emphasize the importance of education‚ the preservation of history‚ and the dangers of an uncautious rebellion. At the start of the novel‚ Old Major serves as the budding idea of Animalism‚ for which all of the animals on Animal Farm form their government around. He comes up with this concept to motivate the suffering animals to fight back against the tyrannical
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from the draad to plague the living. Stoker welded these elements into the bloodthirsty Count Dracula the immortal symbol of evil.” Bram Stoker was a writer who used Vlad Tepes’s image to create the famous vampire of his book‚ “Dracula.” Vlad was the perfect candidate due to his unusual methods. Dracula‚ similar to vlad‚ was created to be cruel and bloodthirsty feared by all. When thinking of Vlad or dracula‚ for many‚ the term “son of the devil” will come to mind. Stoker also made sure to incorporate
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The author’s use of imagery greatly assists the reader to feel and imagine the extent of what the main character had to experience in order to be “perfect” to her peers. The people around were would constantly tell her how to change‚ directly following their advice the author includes this image: “So she cut off her nose and her legs / and offered them up.” (17-8). Offerings are traditionally known to be things you give up and gift to others. The gifting of these things are usually towards either
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Stevenson presents the character Mr Hyde as being terrifying and animal-like by using imagery. Hyde is described as a predator‚ he ’snarls’ and breaks into a ’savage’ laughs which suggests he’s intimidating. Mr Hyde also possesses ’extraordinary quickness‚’ which is not like a human‚ this could suggest he is athletic even though he doesn’t look like it. In the extract‚ he is said to be ’hardly human‚’ that could refer to his barbaric‚ animal-like behavior. He gives the impression of being possessed
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William Shakespeare integrates imagery in Macbeth‚ in order to emphasize evil themes and to add creative attributes. The two passages‚ "Stars‚ hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires‚" (1.4.57-58) and "A dagger of the mind‚ a false creation proceeding from the heat oppressed brain‚" (2.1.50-51) tie together through illusion to portray the critical elements of darkness and desire. The theme of desire accentuates itself through the image of darkness and is especially significant
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