so highly as Stoker’s classic of Gothic horror‚ “Dracula”‚ in genuineness‚ or capacity to stimulate consternation‚ or rapture‚ although Stoker did not evolve the set of vampire doctrines. Mary Shelley‚ inspired by Byron and the poet Shelley’s uncanny story and Bram Stoker‚ motivated by the actor Henry Irving’s notion of the vampire as an eloquent nobleman composed “Frankenstein” and “Dracula”‚ stories‚ saturated with crime‚ ghost‚ and horror. Stoker adhered to the structure of “Frankenstein”‚ opening
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Vampires have always been an idea tossed around and portrayed differently through what other people see them as. Some see them as sparkly vampires that have an inevitable love for a human‚ and others see them as the cruel beasts that the origin stories conclude. In How to Read Literature Like a Professor‚ Foster states that one doesn’t have to be a vampire to have vampire- like qualities through their actions or thoughts. In A Tale of Two Cities‚ Marquis Evrémonde portrays these exact qualities and
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maleficence of vampirism? The most drastic departure from Stoker’s original text was prevalent in my incorporation of a flashback to Dracula’s pre-vampire history as Vlad. This was an arc of dark romanticism for the character. It also provided purpose to Dracula’s status as the film’s eternal
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Dracula (Max Schreck)‚ a man wishing to buy a house in their town of Wisborg‚ Germany. The castle of Count Dracula is plagued in mystery and all of the townsfolk are scared to even approach it. Slowly‚ Harker begins to realize that Count Dracula is a vampire‚ or Nosferatu (Bird of Death). To go a quick tangent about German Expressionism
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Elizabethan era had many homophobic attributes‚ just as today’s society does. Gothic writers of the Victorian Age played off of the fear and immorality of 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
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what I’m talking about. Twilight. Not the dictionary ‘Twilight’‚ the FILM called ‘Twilight’. It’s where they have vampires and werewolves and a girl who plays the typical ‘girl’ character of a damsel in distress. When ‘vampires’ were made‚ they were meant to be scared of the sun because they got burnt‚ not SHINE in the sun. What is all that about? They have turned the repulsive vampires that caused our spine to chill in an alarming way when we thought about them. And guess what they did? They turned
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The Vampire Era Vampires today seem to be a very popular trend amongst Western society‚ such as Twilight‚ Buffy the Vampire Slayer‚ True Blood‚ and The Vampire Diaries. A common trend that can be seen through these vampire movies are the roles of femininity and masculinity. What defines masculinity and femininity? Both femininity and masculinity can have various interpretations‚ but “masculine characteristics are used to identify persons as males‚ while feminine ones are used as signifiers for
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health a-drinking” The dramatic irony upon discovering the vampire’s true intentions‚ to drink her blood for health‚ invokes suspense as they are unknown to his victim. At this time‚ in her ignorance‚ she possesses an impression of power over the vampire‚ and ‘dallies’ in reciprocating his affections. The cause of corruption to the girl’s values in ‘Der Vampir’ is‚ at this time unknown‚ and thus her fears remain unrealized until the Unknown becomes known‚ and the threat materializes. We only fear
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Dracula is about the defeat of a blood-thirsty‚ devilish vampire‚ but his demise could not have been accomplished without the use of the Christian religion. The team uses a variety of symbols from Christianity that killed Dracula and protects them from being harmed. Dracula is this Satanic being that in the end is defeated by the power of God. In Dracula‚ Bram Stoker uses various Christian symbols in the fight against Dracula‚ the satanic being‚ to illustrate the good of Christian religion and the
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book written by Bram Stoker that was inspired by Vlad Tepes‚ which causes some confusion about where fact ends and fiction begins. The two undoubtedly share some similarities. For example‚ they are both in positions of nobility. Before becoming a vampire Dracula was a prince and Vlad was a voivode. They are both also from Transylvania‚ although “Dracula” does not take place entirely in Transylvania. Although there are elements of Tepes in the character of Dracula‚ a great deal of it was embellished
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