Count Basie

In Dracula, Stoker presents a stark representation of women and attacks the “New Women”, through the voice of the main women characters, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray, later known as Mrs. Harker. In the Longman Cultural Edition of Dracula, the term “New Woman” is defined as a “single urban young woman, often working in a new clerical job; she smoked cigars and rode a bicycle and ventured, scandalously into the world on her own” (Blake, Dracula 413). Mina is the epitome of the idealized virtuous…

In conclusion, uncanny sides of London are visible in both novels. Both Levy and Stoker connect the uncanny to the "other." In Dracula, the uncanny "other" is represented by vampires whereas Levy's "others" are immigrants. Additionally, both novels are connected to the empire: Stoker writes during the Victorian period and is visibly influenced by the imperial mind-set; Levy writes in a post-imperial context as her text depicts an empire that is falling apart. The two novels depict the "other"…

a high exaggeration. Elizabeth was born on August 7th, 1560 into one of the wealthiest families in Transylvania. She could speak and write four languages, and had a high education, proving she was a very intelligent woman. At fourteen she married Count Bathory, eventually having six children, two of which died at an early age. Elizabeth is almost proved to be a sadistic person, due to old letters of hers that have been found and mostly restored. Though some like to say she was framed,…

Vampires, first introduced in 1897 have traveled an extensive path into the modern world of 2015. A blood thirsty monster, avoiding garlic and sunlight, only being able to be killed by a wooden stake driven through the heart are all characteristics of the vampires found in 1897. Now a days vampire don’t burst in to flame at the touch of sunlight or have uncontrollable blood lust for human blood, but instead sparkle in the sun and “diet,” which entails that they feed on animals instead of humans…

literature and a society existing in a constant threat of regression. These modern anxieties found fruitful soil in literary works that address monstrous characters. One such example is Dracula, written by Anglo-Irish novelist Bram Stoker. The supernatural Count Dracula, a vampire, covets female victims who he can sully with his degenerative blood, turning them into monstrous characters that…

Unknowing to the public during its publication and Bram Stoker himself, his novel, Dracula, published in 1897, would be destined for greatness and provide an influence to horror and fright that would resonate for years to come. The novel crept out at the end of the Victorian era at a time where science, literature, and even medicine were advancing the western world to a new height of cultural triumphs. And while the Victorian era had slowly developed its own desired personality of moral and…

qualities that are like human and if you compare it to a human it would be similar. The last point is victim killing and they kill two different ways. The way Dracula kills is by sucking their blood until there is no more blood (“Who was the real Count Dracula”, 2008). This is similar to the ways the modern movies do it. Nosferatu kills his victims where he just attacks them and they die right away like if they are struck by a disease (“Nosferatu vs. Dracula”, 2006). These are the ways that they…

They have been roaming the earth’s surfaces since as far back as the 17th century, but the stories were probably told even before then, too. These monsters aren’t just made-up from authors and storytellers, they are as real as we humans are. The history of vampires is still alive today and their archives of adventures keeps growing with newer, contemporary documentation. Descending from Europe, these nightwalkers hunt once the sun goes down, and light can no longer rule over them. The moon is…

The book Vladimir Tod was a fantastic book which I rate 10/10 because the plot was amazing. If I were to recommend the fictional book The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer I would say to read the whole series. Reason is because the book can catch your interest right away if you like love and suspense this is the book for you. You get to see the struggles of kid who lost his mom and father. The main characters are Vlad, Henry McMillan, Joss, Otis, Dorian and D'ablo. The protagonist is…

Hektor finds what he's looking for a mere three blocks from his abode, though it's far to close to where he lives. He could follow her, cajole her to further places with his chiseled features and vaguely familiar yet foreign accent, if all else failed there was enticing simplicity of hypnosis, though such acts could be readily interpreted by an outsider looking in, damning all attempts to feed this night and besides; Hektor enjoyed that very idea that they accepted their fate with the added…