2013 Home Reading Report No. 3 Sunglasses after Dark CHARACTERIZATION Sonja Blue- comes into focus in a mental asylum‚ which she escapes by crawling down the side of the building like a spider. Pangloss- was the maker of Morgan. Morgan- the vampire who created Sonja‚ Catherine Wheele- fraudulent psychic and a shady evangelist Ghilardi- a mad would-be Van Helsing Jacob Thorne- Denise’s father VOCABULARY Embodiment- a person in whom or thing in which particular quality is embodied
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by Clive Barker is a great story about a holiday house. In this essay you will see how Hood and Harvey are really similar but there is one thing that makes them very different. Barker makes Hood and Harvey very similar by calling them thieves and vampires‚ but different by the amount each of them care. Hood and Harvey are both thieves in some sort. Hood steals time and souls of kids.When Harvey and Hood met‚ Harvey was very mad about that Hood steals time from everyone who enter. This happened after
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devices. The article ‘Sun Vampires’ appeared in The Big Issue in May 1997. The Big Issue is aimed at a wide audience‚ including the younger generation‚ and is an effective way to reach the youth through a magazine‚ including young adults using tanning beds. The Big Issue is sold by the homeless on the street and can usually be found in any town centre or city. The heading of the article I am analysing is ‘Sun Vampires’ and this in turn contradicts itself as vampires are associated with darkness
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The Sexuality of the Dark and Mysterious Man Bram Stoker’s novel‚ Dracula is a piece of gothic literature in which Count Dracula inflicts grief and pain upon mortal men by attempting to charm and steal their women‚ eventually turning them into vampires. Stoker portrays women as unintelligent beings who will follow the Count because of his apparent charm‚ strength‚ and stereotypical beauty. The Count is a dark‚ beautiful‚ and mysterious man‚ and this covers up the evil that he has committed and the
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were often the main components of Gothic literature. Not only was one of the main characters a vampire‚ he attempted to turn other characters into vampires with the help of his three assistant female vampires. Although the reader most likely knew Count Dracula was a vampire from prior knowledge‚ Harker realized this during a shaving incident with the count. “This time there could` be no error‚ for the man [the count] was close to me
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The Victorian era’s patriarchal ideals rooted on fear of female empowerment influenced Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s lesbian vampire novella‚ Carmilla. The social ambience created by patriarchy at the time limited women to be objects of desire to be owned and controlled by men. In hopes of defying this social construct Le Fanu creates Carmilla‚ a vampire who feeds on and loves other women. Her independence from and disregard for the patriarchy challenges male kinship. The novella Carmilla is an attempt
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Renfield: A Tracking Device Dracula‚ written by Bram Stoker in 1897‚ is a novel that has influenced generations of thrilling gothic novels and horror movies alike. The vampire Count Dracula is not the first of his kind in literary history but he is without a doubt the most famous. Most novels written about vampires after 1897 can trace some of its roots to Dracula. One of the unique characteristics about the novel is the point of view in which the novel is written. The story is told through letters
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especially for a blue-collared‚ straight forward man like Robert Neville. He ultimately is the last person living (that he knows of) and now has to tackle the major problem of staying alive when hundreds of vampires are solely after his blood. He essentially makes his house a fortress that no vampire can infiltrate. Although they can’t get to him they still come every night torturing him with cat-calls and yells that truly drive him mad. By far he is tormented most from his once good friend Ben Cortman
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emphasises the threat of the ‘New Woman’ through constant mentioning of their dress and appearance; he does this to emphasis the contrast between the ‘New Woman’ and the traditional women. In the chapter where Jonathan is approached by the 3 woman vampires‚ who represent the dreaded ‘New Woman’ the language used to describe the women is very critical. He refers to them as “ladies by their dress and manner” stating them to be effeminate and vulgar and this makes it seem that they are impersonating women
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which presents itself in many texts. It is a broad idea which often causes the audience to question the morality of actions. This theme is evident throughout my chosen texts. In “Department 19” by Will Hill‚ the agents have the job of removing vampires so as to protect humans from them. Allen Zadoff’s “Boy Nobody” follows the story of a boy whose job is to assimilate into others’ lives in order to assassinate them or someone close to them. “Half Bad” by Sally Green uses the symbols of White and
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