Corruption of Love within the Innocent Within the works of William Shakespeare’s Othello‚ Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein the concept of love is found within characters that are innocent and filled with good intentions. In all three works‚ love fills specified characters with joy and gratefulness towards the other characters who they claim to love. Unfortunately‚ the characters that experience love are only satisfied with its graces until it somehow gets corrupted. The minds
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skewed perspective of what relationships should be like. Dracula‚ a Gothic horror novel written by Bram Stoker in 1897‚ presents a clear depiction of how fatal it can be if society continues idealizing women. He writes about the idealistic woman‚ Lucy Westrena; a pure virgin woman that just submits to the males far more educated than her. She literally dies from her lack of knowledge about Dracula. On the contrary‚ he also writes about Mina Harker who represents the new woman arising in the Victorian
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distorted‚ and mutated‚ but yet is still able to maraud in the bodily flesh and figure of the “righteous man”. The idea of the righteous god abiding man takes an important role in the novel. When Jonathan Harker was still initially discovering who Dracula was he questioned: “What manner of man is this‚ or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of a man?” (Stoker‚ ch. 23). Even Harker is shocked by the fact that the monster is in fact also a man. What adds fear and reality to the notion of
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Shadow of the vampire essay Both Stoker’s Dracula and Mernau’s Nosferatu have been used to create a new text‚ with its own concerns‚ the new text being shadow of the vampire‚ and its concerns being that it needs to appeal to a postmodern audience. Shadow of the vampire is a new text representing new elements that resonate with a contemporary‚ post modern audience. Various elements of the gothic mode for example vampirism‚ immortality‚ sexuality‚ and the shadow motif have been appropriated‚ also
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Aidee Rosales Mr. Gonzales March 21‚ 2013 Period 1 Dracula Essay In the novel‚ Dracula by Bram Stoker‚ he developed the writing of his novel by addressing the struggles between a modern society of progress‚ science‚ and technology with superstitions‚ folk beliefs and from the past. Bram stoker became interested in ancient superstitions including one from Cluj in Transylvania‚ Romania. He was a sickly child whose mother used to tell him ghost stories. Throughout the novel‚ two characters addressed
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster will not grant you some innate capability to comprehend complicated texts‚ and it will most definitely not establish your position in society as a“professor.” Coincidentally‚ Foster’s novel demonstrates an essential quality of Literature: placing the reader fast asleep. However‚ that is not to say the novel isn’t good; the novel is simply not a “joy read.” The book not being particularly enjoyable has nothing to do with the manner in which
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extent do you agree with the assertion that ‘One of the basic features of gothic fiction is the critical portrayal of religion’1 in Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter‚ and Dracula by Bram Stoker? The Christian attachment to Gothic emerged from its connection to Gothic and Gothic Revivalist architecture‚ though from the nineteenth century the Romantics gave an appraisal of Christianity that differed from its previous depiction
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Foreman 0 DUKE UNIVERSITY Durham‚ North Carolina From Status to Contract: Domesticating Modernity in Wuthering Heights‚ The Mill on the Floss and Dracula Violeta Solonova Foreman March‚ 2011 Undergraduate Critical Honors Thesis Trinity College of Arts and Sciences English Department Foreman 1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My deepest thanks to my thesis advisor‚ Professor Psomiades for her dedication‚ insight‚ positivity‚ encouragement‚ and inspiration. Also‚ thank you to loved ones for
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A Case Analysis of Vampires’ Statuses in Popular Culture: Dracula and Blood of the Vampire By Jillian Broaddus Professor Hassan Spring 2014 Independent Study From containing possible allusions in the bible to serving as the protagonists of a multi-million dollar franchise in the twenty-first century‚ one character has transcended time and space across literature‚ media‚ and popular culture: that of the vampire. The notion of vampirism truly took ground during the expansion of the Austro-Hungarian
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Good Intentions; Unfortunate Results “The path to hell is paved with good intentions‚” says an English Proverb. This can also be seen as true about literature set in the 17th century all the way to characters living in the turn of the 19th century. Those were simpler times when people believed in the devil‚ witches and vampires as explanations because there were so many things they didn’t understand. Characters in these strict moral times would try to do what they thought would be for the best
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