Count Dracula

Anh Bui September 6, 2016 ENG 160 Writing Project 1 The Conjuring and the Return of True Horror In a world where people enjoy fear as a form of entertainment, the new film series The Conjuring by James Wan, released in July 2013, marks the glorious return of horror. Bringing back the classic ghost story with a touch of perfection, James Wan tells us the terrifying real story about the Perrons family, Ed and Lorraine Warran in a haunted Rhode Island farmhouse during the 70s. With the special…

The nomads enter the field from the forest edge one by one. Jessie stands a few feet away from Victoria and James as Laurent steps forward. This action is followed by two blonde males, one with curly hair and the other straight and cropped, and one buff male, stepping forward in front of their coven. Jessie notices that the older blonde with straight hair was clearly the leader. Laurent steps closer to the coven leader and spoke: “We thought we heard a game. I’m Laurent," he pointed to himself.…

is closely identical to our real world but has unrealistic or exaggerated characteristics like non-human entities. Professor Janaro discusses Bram Stoker’s gothic novel, Dracula, as a piece of fiction that “seized hold of the public imagination, and its subject matter has never let it go” (444). Stoker’s vampire figure in Dracula, sparked a new genre of movies and literature that still ongoing today. The novel centers around a young lawyer who travels to Dracula’s Castle and soon finding that…

Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ both divulge into the theme of faith and doubt. The presentation of faith differs respectively between the authors in alignment with their contrasting perceptions of nihilism versus Christian divinity, as does the use of doubt as a manipulative device in opposition to the intrinsic doubt of nature itself. Doubt and faith are primarily introduced in two different lights. Stoker adopts the convention of the supernatural to…

While ghost hunting is now mainly used as fodder for reality tv shows and horror movies, it was once a prestigious profession that garnered more than enough business to financially support the brave few who dared to attempt it. The science of ghost hunting- called techno mysticism- relies heavily on a belief in spirits and the individuals who appear to have the natural ability to communicate with them, but is also dependent on scientific methods and tools; a combination of early suspicion,…

Berten suggests that feminist critics show how literary representations of women are often “familiar cultural stereotypes”. How far does you reading of ‘Dracula’ conform to this feminist view and what can be inferred through Stokers presentation of his female characters? From the opening chapters of Dracula, the reader is faced with under-developed female characters who often fit into the limited cultural stereotypes presented by Bertens. The clearest example of this is Jonathan’s encounter with…

Presently, vampires are trendy Halloween costumes, used in horror movies, or just used as good-looking characters. Even so, these creatures were not always seen that way. “Stories of these nocturnal blood-sucking monsters have fascinated and entranced our culture for years and years” (King). Vampires are all the rage. Especially around Halloween, vampires are seen everywhere. They are all over social-media and on the television. Recently, “vampires are becoming more of a fad than scary monsters.…

Vampire Ever since reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyers, my slight obsession with vampires began. Reading the Twilight books was only the beginning as my infatuation with vampires grew as I continued to immerse myself in books that catered to individuals who enjoy reading about these blood-sucking creatures. Everything vampire was all I wanted to expose myself to for a while, from the Blade movies to the Morganville Vampire series, I could not get enough of learning about the different way…

the mid to late nineteenth century. Some of these early novels on vampires include; Bam Stoker’s Dracula, Polidori’s The Vampyre and Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla. In the twentieth century with the invention of the video camera vampire films have become a mains take in our culture. One of the very first movies ever created was a film called Nosferatu which was an unauthorized adaptation of the novel Dracula. Vampires in both film and literature have become extremely popular over the years. The…

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla displays the theme of attraction versus repulsion throughout the novella, but particularly emphasizes these contradicting ideas in the passage on page 44-45. This passage depicts Laura’s sickness as she begins to turn into a vampire. While the idea of Laura becoming a creature that thrives off blood should be repulsive, her intrigue at the thought of death creates a more impactful scene. Within the first few sentences of the passage we hear of Laura’s ill…