Viviana Jimenez Teacher’s Name English I Pre-AP 6 November 2016 ! ! Original Source/Context: ! Hunt’s The Light of the World‚ painting Religious The painting The Light of the World was made by a british artist named William Holman Hunt. He was known for many of his artistic details and technics. The painting‚ made in 1854‚ identifies Christ nocking on an old wooden door signifying the human soul. This painting brought much attention towards Hunt. He also made many other well known religious painting
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throughout the novel and toying with the idea of what a vampire is‚ which I created in my gothic novel‚ Dracula. I also admire her addition of “Dhamphirs” to the vampire genre and the names that she endowed these mystical creatures‚ like “Moroi” and “Strigoi”. I commend her various additions to the history of vampires that Van Helsing touched on when he was explaining the powers of a vampire to Jonathan and Mina Harker‚ Quincey Morris‚ Dr. Seward‚ and Lord Godalming. By adding the idea of a school for young
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in England suicides were buried with a stake pierced in or near the heart. This was to ensure that that the ghost of the person would not come back and haunt the living‚ to prevent the suicide victim from becoming a vampire (Kayton 305). In Dracula‚ Lucy was killed after she had already started to haunt the living. She was killed after with a stake driven through her heart as a "duty to others" and to the dead‚ so that she may truly be "passed away"‚ as "God ’s true dead" (266‚ 277-279).
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Vampire Slayer‚ when Buffy battles none other than the Count Dracula himself. As David J. Skal says in his book Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture‚ “[Dracula] is paradoxically driven by the same dreams and frustrations as the fictional heroes and their real-life readers” (Skal 23). Because he has the same dreams‚ desires and (to a certain extent) needs as his audience‚ he remains easily relatable to this day. Dracula holds a fairly obvious place in pop culture‚ and its continued
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homosexuality and used those feelings as a basis for their novels. Bram Stoker told a story about a vampire that challenged the Victorian gender roles and managed to reverse them‚ making men faint like women‚ and making women powerful like men‚ and called it Dracula. Mary Shelley created a a physical being out of a man’s suppressed homosexuality due to his Victorian male upbringing; a man named Frankenstein. Robert Stevenson described what happens when a homosexual male attempts to live double lives to cover
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Women in Victorian Novels Women play a very important role in book or novel. They serve as symbols for change or stability. In the novels Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell‚ and Dracula by Bram Stoker there are women characters that portray and represents the ideologies of the Victorian time. Through these women were able to capture a glimpse of what life was like for the Victorian woman and what was expected of them. These women
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Eyre commenting on ideas including love‚ social class and gender. Jane Eyre allowed Bronte to develop her ideas and opinions about her society at the time thoroughly. Another author who uses the art form of the novel is Bram Stoker‚ with his novel Dracula. Stoker makes known his anxieties and the anxieties that characterised his age: the repercussions of scientific advancement and the dangers of female sexuality. Jane Eyre discusses the idea of love verses autonomy. It is very much the story
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representing this change. Three movies that exemplify the aspect of change within the two features are‚ Dracula (1931) directed by Tod Browning‚ Fright Night (1985) directed Tom Holland and Twilight (2008) directed by Katherine Hardwicke. These three movies represent the change in the genre and society itself. The film Dracula directed by Tod Browning is the story of legendary vampire Dracula. Dracula was the first ever vampire film and therefore the audience of 1931 was not desensitised to the idea
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Monsters have proven to be more than just the fiendish appearance or the evil within such creatures – their monstrosity symbolizes‚ more or less‚ the characteristics that define mankind and/or our innermost fears. Prior to this Exploration of the Humanities course‚ I have interpreted monsters for what they are: heartless and destructive creatures that generate fear. However‚ I never bothered what the true cause of such fear is – only associating the gruesome presence with a psychological reaction
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Professor Sandra Snow ENG 323-11500-22132943 1 April 2011 Social and Historical Effects Responsible for the Conception of the Fantastic and Supernatural in Gothic Horror Bram Stoker’s Dracula debuted in Victorian England at the end of the nineteenth century. Not the first vampire story of its time‚ it certainly made one of the most lasting impressions on modern culture‚ where tales of the supernatural‚ horror‚ witchcraft‚ possession‚ demoniacs‚ vampires‚ werewolves‚ zombies‚ aliens‚
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