novel‚ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen‚ by Alan Moore‚ takes place in Brittan starting in 1898. The work takes characters from other novels and uses their past and personality in one novel. The character in the league are‚ Captain Nemo‚ Miss Mina Murray‚ Allen Quaterman‚ Henry Jekyll‚ Edward Hyde‚ Hawley Griffin‚ Champion Bond‚ and C. Auguste Dupin. During this time period‚ the industrial revolution was taking place. Cities were being built up‚ people were moving from farms to cities
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When Rosemarie Morgan claims‚ "Hardy ’s women ... must have confused many readers caught with mixed feelings of admiration and alarm‚" (Morgan‚ Women and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy xiii) she brings forward a duality of reaction which reflects Hardyan heroines ’ characters. The confusion she refers to can be understood within the novels ’ historical contexts‚ as these female protagonists were most likely to have been quite unusual at the time of their creation. Concomitantly‚ today ’s
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Gothic literature is portrayed as an innocent‚ helpless maiden‚ passive‚ vulnerable‚ dependant and weak. However‚ a common theme in gothic novels is for this feeble female to feel sympathy for the villain‚ for example‚ Elizabeth in Frankesntein‚ Lucy in Dracula and Ophelia in Hamlet‚ sadly‚ this usually results in the innocent females tragic death such as Ophelia’s untimely suicide‚ which‚ similarly is seen in another of Shakespeare’s women‚ Lady Macbeth‚ although this female is certainly not fitting
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Addiction‚ Bullying and Self-empowerment in Buffy the vampire Slayer by Rob Cover and it involves the fictional character‚ Willow‚ and her addiction to magic. The article shares several similarities with the peer reviewed article Battling Addictions in Dracula by Kristina Aikens‚ and “[I]s it dangerous?” Alternative readings of “drugs” and “addiction” in Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Jo Latham. All three articles explain the drug references in vampire media albeit with different points and interpretations
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the society to “destroy” the other‚ to underline its negative features. When we analyse for example Frankenstein‚ its behavior and characteristics are the reflection of the Jacobins in the French revolution. The sexual discriminations are shown in Dracula because he appeals both with women and men so he was‚ in some terms bisexual but at the same time it haunts the system pointing at the arbitrary nature of difference. Everyone who is not a middle class male white member‚ namely foreign people and
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It seems only apt then that this sacred figure of the nurturing and protecting mother is turned and mutilated into the figure of the child-eating vampire. Stoker’s vampire mother is anything but a comely and caring presence in the narrative. Lucy turns into the "bloofer lady" (Stoker 195)‚ eating children’s blood (one of Creed’s images connected to motherhood ("Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine" 51)) and handling children in a seemingly uncaring manner: "With a careless motion‚ she flung to
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Wallachia was feared and was called Vlad the Impaler (Hosier‚ n.d.). In today’s modern world‚ the historical vampire has acquired so many faces; from the myths and legends arose three creatures of the night that has struck literature and film – Stoker’s Dracula‚ Rice’s Louis‚ and Meyer’s Edward. There has been a great shift in perspectives and in the characterization of these beings. Too see how the depiction of a vampire has changed from beinga bloodthirsty shape shifter who seeks revenge to being a frustrated
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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 in
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Imagination‚ (New York: Peter Lang Publishing‚ 2005) Peirse‚ Alison‚ "The impossibility of vision: Vampirism‚ formlessness and horror in Vampyr"‚ Studies in European Cinema‚ Vol.5‚ No.3 (2008)‚ Stoker‚ Bram “Dracula” (1897) reprint‚ (London: Penguin‚ 1993)‚ 274-5 “The Making of Bram Stoker ’s Dracula "Bloodlines" ‚Youtube‚ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szBO-Of5cOw> ‚ [accessed 8th March 2013] Wilcox‚ Rhonda‚ “Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer”‚ (New York: I.B. Tauris &
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Fear and terror portrayed through her often over exaggerated reactions. She is often shown fleeing a rapacious and predatory male. However‚ at times she is made to feel sympathy for the monster which pursues her. Typical examples include: Mina in Dracula‚ Elizabeth in Frankenstein‚ Ophelia in Hamlet‚ Fay Wray in King Kong The femme fatale The other typical gothic female is sharply contrasting female predator. Dark haired‚ red lipped‚ wearing a tight black dress and with a startling cleavage
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