‘In Gothic texts‚ women are either hopelessly submissive or significantly absent.’ Consider this statement in the light of the female characters in Frankenstein. The novel Frankenstein is dominated with male characters amidst female characters often being used to fill minor roles. For a female character to be ‘hopelessly submissive’ we would expect the character was pre-determined to be passive with no chance of progressing from the ‘submissive’ role. However in Frankenstein we see female character
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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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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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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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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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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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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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