Rex and Rose Mary demonstrate a lack of supervision and guidance towards their children in The Glass Castle. Negligence then affects their children’s lives and now they are scared for the future ahead. The story starts out with the hot dog incident: “...when I stood up and started stirring the hot dogs again, I felt a blaze of heat on my right side” (9). This quote verifies Jeanette's lack of parenting she receives. Nobody was there to notice she was on fire while cooking hot dogs until she started screaming and the dog started barking vigorously.…
In the novel, the marnier feels karma after killing the Albatross. For example, “And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work ‘em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird, That made the breeze to blow”( Coleridge 632). In this quote, the mariner is telling the wedding guest that he did, indeed killed the Albatross that made good things happen for his crew.…
Count Dracula might be a fictional character who makes the blood curdle on Halloween, but his historical namesake is not. Vlad III, known in heyday as Dracula-- or Drăculea, in old Romania-- was a medieval prince with a figurative thirst for blood. Vlad the Impaler’s Childhood Vlad the Impaler was born in Sighişoara around 1430. He was the son of Vlad ll the Drake and of Alexander the Kind’s daughters, ruler of Moldavia. The early years of his childhood were normal, but by the age of 11, he and his brother were taken to Adrianople by the Ottomans.…
Phenomenon of vampires is highly incorporated in today’s popular culture with a large number of books, films, and TV-series about them emerging every year. Still, many people cannot deny that Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” is an exceptional literary creation that stood at the origins of the cult of vampires. Not only did this Victorian novel, written in 1897, become a landmark piece of gothic literature, but also it defined the contemporary form and image of vampires and paved the way for multiple interpretations in modern culture. Nevertheless, “Dracula” is not just an outstanding horror fiction book. It is also a profound insight into Victorian age – a defining time in the history of the Western world, when so many cornerstones of society began…
Imagine doing or experiencing something great, and something almost regretful at the same time. This sounds much like a dare where one gets a dollar for let’s say dumpster diving. Feeling all the mushy rotten food that burns one’s nose, but that satisfying dollar that one could buy a snack with. Pleasant and nasty, right? However, the book “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens describes positive and negative situations much better.…
The action of applying religion to a person’s action can be seen in numerous other instances throughout Dracula; the application of religion to…
An Analysis of Dennis Foster 's “The Little Children Can Be Bitten” Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker is a seminal piece of Gothic horror fiction. The novel 's portrayal of an undead master (the titular character) being chased by Van Helsing and his band of vampire hunters has been consumed for over a century. Dennis Foster 's critical article “The little children can be bitten: A Hunger for Dracula” uses a psychoanalytic approach to analyze this influential work of literature. In his article, Foster makes a compelling, successful argument about the nature of the novel and how it relates to the inner workings of the human mind. He posits that the visceral, unchained figure of Dracula represents the innate desire for the mother and a return…
The film portrays Dracula as a blood addict going through with drawls waiting for his next fix. Whereas in Stoker’s novel Dracula is portrayed as an older man who is enthusiastic towards his guests: “Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!” (25) Jonathan. This opening statement is playful and welcoming opposed to the movie…
“Knowing makes all the difference… It’ s the difference between just trying to keep alive and having something to live for”(Wyndham 198). The Chrysalids teaches many valuable morals, and it shows how many people can be affected by them. Many quotes in this book demonstrate the character's’ feelings, or their opinions. This novel can teach the reader lifelong lessons.…
The tension between the past and present is one of the key central tropes that is continually addressed in the novels ‘Dracula’, written by Bram Stoker, and ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’, written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. While gothic novels such as ‘Dracula’ and sensation fiction based on gothic tropes like ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’ are both presented in a modern society, the plot, underlying symbolism, and settings allows the past and present to persist as a central trope of the gothic. In the early stages of the gothic, the genre ultimately provided a representation for domestic fears and anxieties amongst the cultural shifts within society. The tension between the past and the present existed within gothic novels as a way of expressing concerns over modernity and the rapidly changing culture. Most importantly, the tension between the past and present consistently reappears through the plot, setting and representations of characters because of the ever-present change in society.…
Have you ever been faced with a danger so fierce that your mind became clouded with fear? What are some thoughts you may have if you were in a situation like this? Imagine being trapped in a place with no visible way out, succumbed to intimidating surroundings. In Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, the central idea is fear. Bram Stoker demonstrates this idea by using the literary devices of conflict and point of view.…
In the exposition of the hair-raising novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, Jonathan Harker, an English lawyer, travels to a mysterious and unknown place by the name of Transylvania. He helps a nobleman by the name of Count Dracula who wishes to purchase a house in England. Upon arrival, Harker’s suspicion about Count grows and soon comes to the realization that he is in fact a vampire. Dracula does not wish to move to London for the house but instead he has the desire to drink the blood of English people. Next up in the inciting incident, Harker escapes from Dracula’s castle and manages to flee without being killed.…
Supposedly based loosely on an erotic dream of Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ (1897) embodies one of the most fascinating and symbolically sexualised characters in English literature. Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ addresses Victorian anxieties regarding its women’s feminist awakening and breaking of patriarchal chains during the time and highlighted this fear in his novel. By focusing on these topics in his novel, Stoker, who was a staunch conservative Anglican and advocate of patriarchy, emphasises how women’s interests were leading to a dangerous change in the Victorian morality, and with the advent of the New Woman could hyperbolically eventuate in the complete destruction of English civilization. Throughout the Victorian period, men were becoming worried about women’s interests and what role they should play in society.…
The symbolic standards function within the late-Victorian anxieties which conflicts anything that is threatening. The premise of Dracula provides the…
The boyar Count Dracula signifies the cold, adverse characteristics of an immoral conqueror, only out for his own interests as his violent ancestors in their Turkish wars. As Harker and his comrades are, to all onlookers of fashion and status of living, between the middle class and lower middle class, Harker cannot help thinking how he has aided this unconquerable monster to migrate to his homeland, as well as the dangerous position his countrymen find themselves. “This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless. The very thought drove me mad” (Stoker 53). However, Harker and his companions symbolize all that is good, and right, and moral within a lower-class, persons whose values trump their own desires.…