Professor Sandra Snow ENG 323-11500-22132943 1 April 2011 Social and Historical Effects Responsible for the Conception of the Fantastic and Supernatural in Gothic Horror Bram Stoker’s Dracula debuted in Victorian England at the end of the nineteenth century. Not the first vampire story of its time‚ it certainly made one of the most lasting impressions on modern culture‚ where tales of the supernatural‚ horror‚ witchcraft‚ possession‚ demoniacs‚ vampires‚ werewolves‚ zombies‚ aliens‚
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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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about the three proposals she received “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men‚ or as many as want her‚ and save all this trouble?” (Stoker 69). She is blonde‚ innocent‚ and even childish; therefore Dracula manages to seduce her. He visits her multiple times by night to drink her blood. After Dracula drank too much of her blood‚ Dr Van Helsing tried to save her life with a blood transfusion; she received blood not only from her fiancé Arthur Holmwood‚ but also from Quincey Morris‚ Jack Seward‚ and
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How does Shadow of the Vampire appropriate the earlier texts of Nosferatu and Dracula and make or create something new? Blood sucking‚ darkness‚ gothic and death; all relate to this mysterious creature‚ the vampire. A film within a film is Shadow of the Vampire and it moulds together the texts Dracula and Nosferatu using post-modernist techniques. This creates for the audience a film that entertainingly doesn’t follow universal themes but focuses on gothic features‚ character transformations and
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The Jewish Eastern European population suffered immeasurable losses during the second World War. While the focus remains on the horrific acts committed by Germany‚ there is one that is glossed over. That is the immigration policy instituted by the United States of America. An immigration policy that discriminated and prohibited entrance to the country for many Jewish refugees. Whilst Germany was committing mass genocide‚ America did little to stop them. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the United
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screen several times‚ also associated with another terror story Dracula. It was written by Bram Stoker who was an English author. Dracula is the story of the legendary count who is a vampire‚ the story tells us the intent of Dracula to move from his castle in Transylvania to London to find new victims and to spread the curse. The battle between Dracula and Abraham Val Helsing takes place in England where the vampire was destroyed. (Dracula) The exceptional work done by Stoker have defined the of vampires
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Taking its origins from a poorly reviewed movie‚ the 1997 TV how by the same creator‚ Joss Whedon‚ brought to the screen a 16-year-old high school student whose destiny was to “stand against the vampires‚ the demons‚ the forces of darkness. She is the slayer” (Whedon‚ 1997). The introduction of Buffy The Vampire Slayer (BTVS)‚ as a character‚ though not a new one‚ was revolutionary. Challenging the preconceptions of traditional horror‚ comedy‚ romance and teen movies‚ Whedon has created a character
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outsiders. This is known as Xenophobia-a fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners. MacDonald suggests that over exaggerating the stereotypes of outsiders helps survival as seeing an exaggerated threat is safer than under estimating a threat. From an evolutionary perspective‚ it has been emphasized that Natural selection has favored genes that cause group member to be altruistic toward members of their own group‚ but intolerant towards outsiders. This is known as Xenophobia-a fear and hatred of strangers
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children led Victorians to refine their understanding of the motherly instinct. They began to believe that violence and motherhood went hand in hand. What today would be called postpartum depression‚ at that time was considered mania. This played into Dracula because as Stoker wrote it‚ there was a great contrast between the nurturing Mina Harker and the child killing vampires when he writes‚ “If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail‚ as of a half smothered child. The women closed
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the bad characteristics of the normal woman when she transforms. As the film develops I expect to see the norm try to discover why the modern girl transforms to the cat or how‚ and tries ways to figure out how to stop it. 2. In the movie clip Dracula‚ the gothic side of horror
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