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Assignments – Film review There are many wonders, myths, and legends in the world, such as mysterious creatures like the vampire, werewolf and many more. Many such myths throughout history have been translated and altered into modern societies novels and movies such as the ones to be discussed here. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one of the first fiction novels to discuss vampires and has become one of the most iconic novels and the status quo to any basic modern vampire novel. The novel follows the story of many characters and their reaction to experiencing Dracula and learning of his fearsome mythological capabilities such as immorality. This discussion will follow the comparison of the original novel by Stoker and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 …show more content…
However due to Lucy’s flirtatious personality implying sexual desires with many of the other male characters, in the movie when she talking about sex with Mina she was curios and excited and what happen to her last night which she was unable to stop thinking about this. Another moment of high sexuality is when Johnathan is seduced by the three-vampire woman who dress in a sexualized manner Dracula comes to rescue Johnathan from the three women and said “How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you’ll have to deal with me” (Stoker,62) When Dracula said this there is subtle potential hint that Dracula has some form of feelings toward Harker and this shows that Dracula has no bounds to gendered …show more content…
Dracula defies god as he does not care about religion or science, he just does what he needs and want to do, which the resolve is killing innocent people and turn himself into a monster which lead to others to called Dracula is a taboo that’s god had plan a mistake for him to be born into the world. “God’s mercy is better than that of these monsters, and the precipice is steep and high. At its foot man, may sleep – as a man” (Stoker,85) This said by Johnathan as he compares Dracula as a monster, a taboo to God who’s bring the world

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