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    him‚ Do call it valiant fury” (Caithness: Act V‚ Scene II) Consider Macbeth as a gothic protagonist in the light of this comment ANNELI ALIAGA Macbeth’s dimensional personality‚ steeped in the agonising internal conflicts and debatable sanity that stages his moral corruption‚ depict the archetypal gothic protagonist of a play written before the creation of the genre. As typically seen in a conventional gothic text‚ Shakespeare presents the protagonist’s progression from ambition to a transgressive

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    Dracula is about the defeat of a blood-thirsty‚ devilish vampire‚ but his demise could not have been accomplished without the use of the Christian religion. The team uses a variety of symbols from Christianity that killed Dracula and protects them from being harmed. Dracula is this Satanic being that in the end is defeated by the power of God. In Dracula‚ Bram Stoker uses various Christian symbols in the fight against Dracula‚ the satanic being‚ to illustrate the good of Christian religion and the

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    people are familiar with the novel Dracula‚ by Bram Stoker. It is typically referred to as a horror story sure to give a good scare. However‚ Bram Stoker was not merely out to give his Victorian audience a thrill ride. Many symbols and themes‚ particularly those of the main antagonist Dracula‚ were brought into the novel to teach a lesson. Oddly enough‚ Dracula resembles other forces of evil in other religions as well. A strong comparison exists between Dracula‚ Satan‚ and Hindu demons. Of course

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    standards and beliefs of the dominant class. Bram Stoker’s novel‚ ’Dracula’ represents a class struggle not between the bourgeois society and the proletariat society where the proletariats would attempt to rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie‚ but rather between the capitalist bourgeois and the character of Dracula as a monopolist. Dracula worked in relation to bourgeois fears of domination from above - from a monopolistic Dracula. Franco Moretti has argued that this text "was a desperate attempt

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    The judge comes back to life through the painting to hang Malcomson just like the others before him. Throughout “The Judge’s House” the four elements of Gothic Horror that occur are repetition‚ the double‚ menacing other‚ and transformation. All these elements contribute to my own interpretation of the story that evil never truly dies. The first element is repetition when the rats‚ and the rope keep repeating actions. In the beginning he finds out later by looking at the room closely there

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    In Bram’s Stoker’s Dracula (1897)‚ one of the main motifs present throughout the whole piece is Catholicism. Catholicism does not only appear as a motif but also as a major theme in the novel. On the books‚ Broker was known to be a Protestant‚ however after releasing his novel Dracula‚ he was considered of being “a closet Catholic cloaking his dangerous views in a relatively safe literary medium” (Starrs‚ D. Bruno). Even though the novel portrays Anti-Christian values and beliefs‚ Bram Stoker was

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    started. In the film Dracula‚ directed by Tod Browning in 1931‚ many controversial issues of the 1920s and 1930s including science‚ superstition‚ religion‚ and xenophobia are addressed. An argument that has been extremely controversial and debated for centuries is science versus religion. Dracula takes the side of religion in this debate‚ which is shown throughout the novel. Many times the protagonists attempt to stop Dracula‚ but one of the only ways that they can hurt Dracula is through religious

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    atom of an element determines the atom’s ‚ and the number of electrons determines of an element. 3. The atomic number tells you the number of in one atom of an element. It also tells you the number of in a neutral atom of that element. The atomic number gives the “identity “ of an element as well as its location on the Periodic Table. No two different elements will have the atomic number. 4. The of an element is the average mass of an element ’s naturally

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    Running head: ELEMENTS OF A 1 Elements of a Contract Moses Parker BUS 670: Legal Environment Porf. Stacey Callaway October 6‚ 2014‚ 2014 ELEMENTS OF A 2 Elements of a Contract Indeed‚ contracts plays a very significant role in all aspects of society; according

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    One of the main problems that is faced while contrasting Jane Austin’s “Pride and Prejudice” with Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ is that even when it is the same society that we are talking about‚ the time is not the same‚ is almost a hundred years apart from each other‚ with according to societies‚ could mean a huge difference. While Jane Austin makes a clear portrait of women at her time‚ showing them almost as mere ornaments for men  "But the wife of Mr. Darcy must have such extraordinary sources

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