Bram Stoker

Nothing screams classic horror novels like Frankenstein. A household name that, on its initial reveal, rocked the world. Since then there have been a multitude of adaptations recreated off of the base premise. 30+ movies inspired by Mary Shelley’s legendary novel. Most aren’t the best, but there are some diamonds in the rough. I really want to take this opportunity to compare the classic novel to an interesting adaptation called I, Frankenstein, directed by Stuart Beattie. The differences…

“Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice...Leave me; I am inexorable” (213). Victor Frankenstein is a brilliant Swiss scientist. He comes up with an experiment no man has ever attempted before. Frankenstein attempts to create life by his own hand. What starts off as the discovery of a century quickly goes downhill. Instead of bringing a beautiful, artificial creature to life, Frankenstein has created a horrid beast. The monster demands Frankenstein to make a duplicate…

Bram stocker’s dracula Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an American made film, genre was a romantic horror film that was made in 1992 by director and producer Francis Ford Copppola. The movie is based on the novel Dracula by the author Bram Stoker. the lead characters in the movie Dracula is Gary oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing and the actor Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. some of the less known characters are Richard E. Grant…

No one is born good or evil but the world has the ability to mould a person to become one or the other. In Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, the story is told through journal entries by all of the characters. Stoker deploys the classic “good versus evil” plot. The evil being displayed by Count Dracula and the good being shown by the other characters who sought out to defeat Dracula upon figuring out his true desires. The story begins with a young solicitor named Jonathon Harker who is assigned to go…

decisions, including the film’s duration, the novel’s format, or the director’s vision. A notable film adaptation is Nosferatu, a version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, published in 1897. This novel follows the story of Jonathan and his companions as they attempt to kill the vampire Dracula, while the movie attempts to retell this story. In order to translate Bram Stoker’s Dracula into this silent film for a 1922 German audience, Nosferatu’s production team made changes to the format, characters, and…

The Victorian Era was a period during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), where England had an outreach across the world through the use of colonialization and their development of science and technology. Darwin’s evolutionary theory of humans coming from ancestors of apes caused huge uproar, which got people thinking about god and religion. Also, due to the new found industrial revolution causing a rapid growth of factories, mills, industries and the ever growing middle class caused people…

A Postcolonial Interpretation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” Analysed passage: Page 26 “In the library I found, to my great delight..” - Page 29 end. (Penguin Classics Reissue) Post-colonialism is the discourse that reflects upon and reacts to the legacy of colonialism and imperialism within literature and culture. In the late 1800’s at the time when Dracula was written, there was a growing sense of cultural decline within Britain - many feared that people were losing sight of what it truly meant…

Honours Friday, December 1 Frankenstein: A Gothic Novel Gothic fiction novels are stories of romance, death and horror. This genre of storytelling originated in England in the later half of the 17th century. Famous authors of the time include Bram Stoker, Matthew Lewis, Horace Walpole, and Emily Brontë. They all wrote stories of fantasy, romance, terror, and tragedy. The novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is one of a gothic treasure. Frankenstein is set in Europe during the late 1770s and…

"Our soldiers mixing with theirs entered the fortress and conquered the city which I set in fire". Facts,myths and legends about a long dead ruler come back to life by an Irish author named Bram Stoker in a new form but carries the same name Dracula a character placed in many good and bad films but many people in the United states don't know his real name but in Romania people know him as vlad the impaler. The terrifying legend of Vlad the impaler or more commonly known as Dracula. A man that…

Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is called Éire in Irish and is also known as the Republic of Ireland. Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, in the northeast of the island. The United Kingdom is the only country…