Carmilla: How Innocence can Kill Have you ever been afraid of the dark‚ or the boogeyman under your bed‚ or the monsters in your closet? Most likely when you grew older‚ you became less afraid because you knew they didn’t exist. But what if they did? In Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic 19th century novella Carmilla‚ Laura’s monsters are very much alive. Sadly‚ no amount of innocence is able to protect her from the monster that is Carmilla. As a mirror‚ Carmilla cast back the idea of how dangerous
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mainstream music and film industries. Many composers have expanded and appropriated much of the vampire genre such as Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula and Slayer’s Bloodline. The ideas surrounding vampires has been of good versus evil‚ the nature of religion and immortality. It is due to these notions which allow us to assess the visual and literary techniques‚ and context of these texts where vampires have long grasped the general population’s interest. Bram Stoker’s Dracula deals with the concept
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Shadow of the Vampire is a post-modern text which is a reconstruction of Dracula‚ a novel by Bram Stoker‚ and Nosferatu a film directed by F.W. Murnau. The use of intertexuality in Shadow of the Vampire is a key aspect which allows it to echo; themes‚ the gothic mode and issues that are present in the other two texts. Through a clear pastiche‚ Merhige produces a new text from the old. Immortality is a key theme which has been subverted from the physical sense through sucking blood‚ as it’s represented
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truly good as it scars an evil spirit in the vampire. Another example of the conflict of good and evil is in Jonathon’s bedroom when Mina is drinking Dracula’s blood. Mina‚ the pure‚ chaste being‚ is dressed in all white while Dracula‚ the evil‚ corrupt being‚ is clad in pure black. The way the two are dressed is a representation of the contrast of good and evil. However‚ the most pronounced showing of the theme of Christian redemption is when a vampire is slain. The first example of this is when
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Byron Bay accomodation is the best to enjoy the holidays as it provides a range of holiday houses. Luxury accommodation choices are very wide‚ depending on the budget of tourists and preferences. Holidays House is good‚ especially if a tourist is visiting the beautiful Australian town and wants to find a luxury accommodation spot to relax and enjoy.As every savvy vacationer knows‚ you don’t have to spend all your hard earned cash every time you take a much needed break. There are always some ways
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a swashbuckling nineteenth-century lady named Jane Slayre from her foster care by her loathsome vampire kins‚ to her adulthood where she falls in love with a man by the name of Edward Rochester‚ as well as all of the zombie slaying Jane does amidst these two major points in her life. Jane Slayre‚ the protagonist‚ lionhearted demon-assassin heroine‚ and dauntless orphan who snubs the abominable vampire kinsfolk who fostered her‚ sets out on the counsel of her ghostly uncle to sharpen her skills as
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Lucy Westerna and Mina Harker are the only two female characters Bram Stoker describes in detail in the novel Dracula. Lucy and Mina are two of the three characters that the reader sees becoming a vampire‚ and both characters are narrators. It is clear that these two play a very important role in the novel. Their actions have a huge effect on the way the novel unfolds. Lucy and Mina have many differences and similarities in representing the Victorian women. Lucy represents all of the evil traits
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The types of children that are in the story are not your typical high school kids‚ who like hang out and have fun. They are all so different‚ between being a vampire‚ a vampire slayer or just simply looking for love‚ and will do anything to get it. The girls are all about getting that perfect romantic boyfriend. Meanwhile‚ the boys do not even know where to start. The significance of the rose corsage was the fact that it was the piece that girls use for such events like prom‚ which is where
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women surpassing these sexual boundaries‚ as prescribed by a patriarchal society‚ that Stoker explores through the reversal of gender roles. This is evident in the “seduction scene”‚ where Harker is shown to be passively subjugated by the female vampires he encounters in Dracula’s castle‚ “looking out from his eyelashes”. His passivity highlights the Gothic motif of duality‚ by reversing typical Victorian gender roles‚ whilst expressing the Victorian concern of female sexual proficiency threatening
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Battlefield closes. Address: Route du Lion 315 - B-1410 Waterloo The Battlefield Tour April to September: every day at 10.45 a.m.‚ 11.45 a.m.‚ 1.30 p.m.‚ 2.30 p.m.‚ 3.30 p.m.‚ 4.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. October to March: only week-ends and bank holidays at 10.45 a.m.‚ 11.45 a.m.‚ 1.30 p.m.‚ 2.30 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. The Butte du Lion Definitely the most visually stunning of all Waterloo Belgium attractions is the Butte du Lion just outside the welcome center. You can take a memorable climb up
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