Stroker’s Dracula‚ Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ and Eric Greitens’ A Warrior’s Heart‚ I was trying to solve a problem not only for my sake but for the sake of others also. Multiple crimes were committed‚ and Dracula was guilty of them all. Because he was such an aberration‚ he did much more to his victims than just kill them‚ but he also used them as bait to attract others. Jonathan‚ Van Helsing‚ and Dr. Seward were all the victims of Dracula’s plans‚ but also they were attempting to stop Dracula once and
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horror novel‚ Dracula‚ focuses on superstitions that occurred in the modern Eastern Europe. In modern society‚ unexplained theories such as superstition and religion are considered dubious and aberrant. For example‚ myths and the supernatural are considered irrational because one can’t prove it mechanically or scientifically. In Dracula‚ most of the characters are modern people who are narrow minded and clueless about the reality of the world. As Jonathan‚ Mina‚ Van Helsing‚ Lucy‚ and Dr.Seward
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Additionally‚ Carmilla feeds off of young women‚ just as Dracula does. She exerts an agency that is not socially permissible‚ since she‚ as a female‚ is the predator and not the prey. Carmilla’s physical appearance causes much anxiety‚ as she comes across as innocently as other women and therefore undetectable‚ just as new ideas were spread amongst women. She is even stronger than the men‚ which is explicitly stated in her encounter with the general‚ in which Carmilla’s hand is compared to a “vice
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scholars give about the woman of the nineteenth century. I will also exemplify the patriarchal fear of female sexuality by using two of the texts studied in the lectures; Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker‚ and The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James. I will especially focus on the characters of Mina and Lucy while dealing with Dracula‚ and the governess while dealing with The Turn of the Screw. Finally‚ I will finish this essay by summing up the content explained throughout the text. The end of the
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Dracula: The Metaphor for Late Victorian-Crisis Jarae Comstock Reinhardt University This paper was prepared for IDS 306 for Dr. Little Dracula: The Metaphor for Late Victorian-Crisis Bram Stokers‚ Dracula‚ from the late-Victorian era‚ is one of the best stories of vampire folklore. Dracula was tall‚ dark‚ handsome‚ and mysterious with immense sexual character. His snow white teeth which outlined his rosy red lips made us fantasize of him and ultimately become obsessed. The overwhelming
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“Compare and contrast the presentation of female protagonists in Gothic Literature‚ in order to determine the validity of Gothic as a serious genre rather than the merely macabre” The three texts; Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and Selected poems by John Keats project images of female characters in very different ways. Much of the portrayal of females is in correlation to the attitudes and position of women within society at the time of writing. The preconception
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How The Use Of The Diary Form Narrative Is Beneficial To The Novel Dracula. Bram Stoker‚ being the creative and intellectual writer himself‚ wrote the novel Dracula in the diary form of narrative. This was a good choice of how to write the novel since it was very beneficial to the plot of Dracula. Examples of how the diary form is beneficial to Dracula is seen in his writing and book. One of the greatest benefits of the diary narrative is that the reader is allowed see‚ and feel the emotional
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Consuming in its very essence‚ it rots away at anything that was once considered pure or moral. Dashiell Hammett ’s "Red Harvest" and Bram Stoker ’s "Dracula" are stories that effectively demonstrate the disastrous and catastrophic effects on society by the unbridled greed‚ ambition and lust of its inhabitants. Most importantly‚ both the characters of Dracula and Dinah Brand use sexuality and lust as a launching pad for their blind greed. Their decisions to follow their ravenousness hunger for personal
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also talk about their slayers. The name Van Helsing always comes up when on the topic of vampire slayers‚ whether it ’s Abraham Van Helsing form the original Dracula‚ or Gabriel Van Helsing from the movie‚ Van
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clear in Dracula and fairly obvious in subsequent vampire stories‚ but a closer reading of less obvious texts will reveal sexual undertones in the acts of violence. This discussion will look at the presence of sexually-natured brutality in Dracula and “Vampires in the Lemon Grove‚” two very different vampire stories‚ the physical act of rape in “The Company of Wolves‚” and the underlying sexual innuendos present in the movie Aliens. One of the dominant themes in Bram Stoker’s Dracula is that
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