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significantly enhance and affect the storyline in a monumental way such as death of a young woman, old, decaying setting and several more. To begin with, the setting is just one of the many elements that play a huge role throughout Dracula. It is common in gothic literature to find the setting to be old, dark, and decaying. Jonathan Harker’s journal says, “…we swept on our way, now in almost complete darkness; but all was dark” (Stoker 14). In this quote, Harker is sitting in the coach with…

Lure of the Dead by Joseph Delaney is a fantasy story set all across the County but mainly in the small village of Todmorden. The sleepy village of Todmorden as you will soon figure out, has a very dark secret. The main characters are Thomas Ward and John Gregory. Thomas Ward is a seventh son of a seventh son which gives him the ability to see and hear the spirits of the dead and other creatures of the dark. Tom is an apprentice of four years to John Gregory, the County Spook. The Spooks jobs is…

The last part of City of bones ended on a good note. Everything is returned back to the normal world. This is my different ending for the book, from the place where Valentine has just taken the Mortal Cup. - In an instant, Valentine takes the Mortal Cup and an unconscious Hodge away. From the distance, a wolf’s howl sounds. “What was that?” Clary said. “A werewolf”. Suddenly, a six footed werewolf jumps down from the top of the Institute, and attacks Jace. “Jace!” Thrashing and battling, the…

In Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, very few people knew that the story’s main character was based on Vlad III. Despite being different people, they both lived in the same region. Vlad III was born in Sighisoara, a Transylvanian city, in 1431. The house where Vlad was born in is still built and can be visited. He grew up in Tirgoviste and was raised by his mom, Princess Cneajna. She made sure that Vlad and his brothers went to Church and received communion from the monks. Vlad’s father made sure…

In all the vampire lore that we have read two major factors determine a characters worth: the publishing date of the piece and gender. Gender plays an immensely important role, especially when women become involved. In early tales of the vampire women did struggle a little, but had more utility than women in later stories. These four stories exemplify this transition: Lilith, Philostratus, Christabel, and Varney the Vampire. The female gender in vampire lore, when compared to their male…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is widely recognized as a staple in Gothic literature and has stood the test of time as several of the concepts and themes explored in the book, such as vampirism, gender, industrialization and modernization among others are still relevant today. Stoker’s epistolary novel makes use of several literary devices, including symbolism and imagery along with clever word choice and a melodramatic tone to heighten the suspense. Typically, novels are either written as a narrative…

knew, a vampire could write a serenade. Irony, along with many other voices, are things that poetry allows a writer to express. In Dana Gioia’s poem “Vampire’s Serenade” irony is very prominent. Dana Gioia, a native Californian, is an internationally famous poet who has published four books of poetry, three literary criticism, and over two dozen literary anthologies. “Vampire’s Serenade”, included in the anthology Poetry Speaks Who I Am, is a poem about a vampire…

“master”. Dracula imprints fear in humankind. Meanwhile in 2015, numerous contemporary vampire novels present a disparate concept of the blood feeding organisms. The Twilight Trilogy proves how vampires have transitioned over a period of time. The vampire of modern times represents Romanticism. Dracula and the Twilight series are composed of basic fundamental ideas but eventually differentiate into two dissimilar vampire images. Dracula’s depicted as being correlated to imperialism…

In Medieval European legends, werewolves, also known as lycanthropes, were hated predators who were dangerous to humans and were linked to greed and gluttony. Those convicted of being werewolves were burned at the stake. Some medieval werewolf stories presented a man trapped in “bestial form” (Hopkins). In Marie de France’s Bisclavret, stealing a wolf’s clothes prevented him from returning to his human form (De France). In other cases, it was a witch’s magic that bound a man to his werewolf…

The Shadow of the Vampire is a film based off of the filming of the Nosferatu film, and was directed by E. Elias Merhige. The film was released in the year of 2000 as a drama genre. The opening scene in Shadow of the Vampire is a character playing with the cat, which signifies the difficulties characters have with dealing with animals. Shadow of the Vampire allows the viewers to recognize the efforts needed from the entire cast to make Nosferatu a successful enjoyable film. Elements such as…