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    A passage from Lord Byron’s, “The Giaour”, caught my attention it reads: “But first, on earth as vampire sent/ Thy corse shall from be rent:/Then ghastly haunt thy native place/And suck the blood of all thy race/ There from thy daughter, sister, wife/ At midnight drain the stream of life;/ Yet loathe the banquet which perforce/ Must feed they livid living corse:/ Thy victims ere they yet expire/ Shall know the demon for their sire, / As cursing thee, thou cursing them” This is the first text…

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    Damon was a 19th-century figure when he was only twenty-four .He is the eldest son of the family Salvatore.In 1864,he was fell in love with a mysterious woman that her name was Katherina Petrova.When he knew his beloved woman was a vampire,he willingly changed for her.Then he became a vampire.Now he is 173 years old. 145 years since, he has been deeply in love with Katherina Petrova.When he knows he has been in use by her and she had never loved himself,his heart is broken and he was…

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    Sexuality In Dracula

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    uncontrollable creatures that show an inspiration of its own kind. In Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, women sexuality reflects a behavior in Victorian England. Women are betrayed which led them to a deep-seated fear that goes beyond their sexual boundaries. Dracula is a sexism novel that implies violence against women, manipulation behavior towards men and distinct layers of sexuality. The female characters in Dracula are all portrayed to be in different…

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    Does bram stokers Dracula meet the psychological needs to be classed as a good horror film? Critics say yes I say no. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and screenplay written by James v. Hart, Dracula is a fantasy movie about a vampire who comes to England and finds his lost true love then proceeds to wreak havoc on the foreign town. The movie, which has a 78% on rotten tomatoes and a 7.5/10 on Internet Movie DataBase or IMDB has also won 3 Oscars and 12 other movie awards in multiple other…

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    Vampires Vs Werewolves

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    fantasy, do contribute to dominant notions of race shaping U.S. culture. How do these monsters and their cultural meanings differ from Dracula? From other monsters in this book? Vampire myths go back thousands of years and they are found in almost every culture around the world. Their variety is almost endless. Vampires and werewolves have many different cultures than Dracula. They have the idea of class and…

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    There are many examples to prove that Werewolves are way better vampires. For example, did you know that once a werewolf reaches maturity, their aging stops and they enter a state of virtual immortality in which they are free from physical old age and have an infinite lifespan? To prove how I know that werewolves are way better than vampires is because, werewolves travel in packs, while vampires travel alone. They say that if you mess with a wolf, you'll get the pack. This means that if a…

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    One of the troubling facts of classical vampire mythology was that the vampire figure was intimately described as an evil symbol, which addressed the stereotypical gender ideals that females were almost always the victim; the classical figures of the vampire, thus, frequently employed to warn females in ancient society. Beliefs in the vampire dated back to the Roumanian periodical of peasant literature in the nineteenth century, with heavy concerning about the relation between body and soul…

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    Dracula is a classic horror novel that sparked a huge interest in a brand-new genre. Currently, the world is used to seeing romantic vampires fighting against werewolves for the love their life. Instead of fearing vampires people love them and have dreams of dating a vampire. However, I believe that vampire genre was always one filled with romance, and even the famous Dracula spoke of intense love. Dracula a book about horror and gruesome death is largely affiliated with many sexual innuendos…

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    The myth of Vampires has been around for almost two hundred years. The origin of vampires is still unknown, but it is dated back in Translyvania, Romania. One myth of a vampire is the drinking of blood. It is said that blood with sustain vampire’s undead existence. Vampires came about because of the rare disease called Porphyria, which caused the lowering of hemoglobin levels in blood. As a result, many medieval people who had this disease practiced drinking fresh blood. Many other myths of…

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    In addition, though Dracula succeeds in transforming the three vampire women and Lucy into perverse vampires, he fails in transforming Mina Harker, the heroine. This is because “the world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it” (Stoker 209). Mina’s character is the epitome of what the New Woman is. For example, she is intelligent and hard working, accepting the technological advances and utilizing them to aid in tracking down Dracula. However, with this in mind, Mina is still…

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