“Through the sexually liberal character of Lucy Westenra‚ Stoker depicts the fear of his contemporaries concerning the increasingly dangerous familiarity of women with their sexuality” (Lukić and Matek 86); such women threatened the patriarchal centred society. In the beginning‚ Lucy was more of a traditional woman than Mina. She never realised what was happening around her‚ showed no interest in new technology and had no thoughts about
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Title: Dracula: Stoker ’s Response to the New Woman Author(s): Carol A. Senf Publication Details: Victorian Studies 26.1 (Autumn 1982): p33-49. Source: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Jessica Bomarito and Russel Whitaker. Vol. 156. Detroit: Gale‚ 2006. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale‚ COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale‚ Cengage Learning Full Text: [(essay date autumn 1982) In the following essay‚ Senf contends that‚ contrary
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Bram Stoker Bram Stoker (1847-1912) is best known as the author of Dracula. Abraham Stoker was born in Clontarf‚ Ireland in 1847. He was a sickly child‚ bedridden for much of his boyhood. As a student at Trinity College‚ however‚ he excelled in athletics as well as academics‚ and graduated with honors in mathematics in 1870. He worked for ten years in the Irish Civil Service‚ and during this time contributed drama criticism to the Dublin Mail. Despite an active personal and professional life‚
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ourselves better people What regretful mistakes and bad intentions are revealed in Dracula? Lucy removes the garland of garlic leading to her doom Jonathan goes to see Dracula despite warning that Dracula is deadly Dracula moves to London and is exposed to his enemies Jonathan‚ Lucy‚ and Mina are all tempted by lust. Vampires as “bad boy/bad girl” appeal to him What literary technique can we focus on for Dracula? Characterization Setting Imagery theme What regretful mistakes and bad intentions
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Andy Dodge English 271 Marxist Approach of Dracula 12/17/10 According to Dictionary.com‚ a vampire is “a corpse‚ animated by an undeparted soul or demon‚ that periodically leaves the grave and disturbs the living‚ until it is exhumed and impaled or burned.” Our society’s view of Vampires has unfortunately been tarnished by several novels that shall remain nameless. Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ however‚ is an excellent novel that shows just how menacing vampires should be. More importantly‚ it is
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understanding of the motherly instinct. They began to believe that violence and motherhood went hand in hand. What today would be called postpartum depression‚ at that time was considered mania. This played into Dracula because as Stoker wrote it‚ there was a great contrast between the nurturing Mina Harker and the child killing vampires when he writes‚ “If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail‚ as of a half smothered child. The women closed round” (Stoker 42). However the vampires
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fairytale or human reality? In this paper I ask the question what’s a monster? I will also compare and contrast the monster within the characters of Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as they illustrate the inherent monster that every person has within them and the potential to unleash their inner monster. In researching the stories of Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde I have learned that not all monsters look like monsters on the outside‚ what defines them as monsters is what motives them
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role of women in the gothic genre is as victims always subjected to male authority’‚ compare and contrast to which this interpretation is relevant to your three chosen texts. By Kristina Addis Within My Last Duchess‚ The Bloody Chamber and Dracula‚ there is evidence to suggest that women within the gothic genre as portrayed as victims of male authority‚ as well as evidence to disprove this argument‚ instead suggesting that it is the women within the Gothic genre which makes themselves victims
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Compare how the writers present the subjugation of women in accordance to Victorian social value in the three texts. Over the ages‚ the roles of women have changed and evolved in accordance to the social norms of the particular time period. In the 19th century‚ women were canonised in literature as objects of beauty and of reverence; an idea which was carried into the very height of the age of enlightenment. From the very first gothic novel‚ Horace Walpole’s ‘The Castle of Otranto’‚ women have
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that I can be identified in the literature of that time. Written in the late 19th century‚ Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Charles Perrault’s “Little Red Riding Hood” both explore the controversy of the times by juxtaposing ideal narrow gender roles that were accepted during the Victorian Age. Also‚ through
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