Count Dracula

Folklore and mythology are ageless. The two have been a constant throughout the history of mankind, playing pivotal roles in how certain cultures and religions view the world. The action of passing down stories through word of mouth through generations have been used to share cultural and religious beliefs, costumes, and values. Whether it is Christians who believe that sin is attributed to Adam and Eve eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil or the ancient Greeks who…

When you think of the horror genre, what do you think of? Probably on gruesome and frightening characters such as Frankenstein, Dracula, and the wolfman. Although some may think that the horror genre is only based on grim characters and events, this is a common misconception. According to a literary criticism by Sharon A. Russell, the horror genre is mainly based on conventions, such as organization, characters, setting, supernatural events, and common topics. In a comparison of three short…

romanticized sex symbols (Dalton par.7). Even Bram Stoker’s 1897 book Drakula portrays the male protagonist, a vampire, as a cold and cruel creature. Rather than being torn between the need to follow some moral norms and satisfy his appetite for blood, Dracula perceives his hunt for victims as a game and humans as his toys (Stoker…

Stoker’s Dracula alternatively, there are more attractive and glorified version that…

Zombies… Vampires… Whose side are you on? For centuries we have been entertained by these superficial beings; Folklores, books, movies, and the family next door. Being a child of the 80’s and 90’s, growing up it was only the vampires lurking in the darkness of our televisions, books, and imaginations. Zombies must of have been buried deep in the ground, digging their way out, an idea and book at a time. As expressed by del Toro and Hogan, vampires have been our favorite night crawler for…

The episode “Hush” is one of the most critically acclaimed episodes in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. This episode from the fourth season of the series lacked an in-depth dialogue but rather used imagery and other literary elements for support. This lack of dialogue conveys a symbolic meaning throughout the episode through the interactions between the main characters. The interactions between Tara and Willow, Riley and Buffy, and Xander and Anya all have a symbolic meaning which supports…

Jeffrey Cohen is a professor of English and Director of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute. He specializes in many areas of research but he is famed for exploring monster; a subject that we will be looking at in this paper. I will be focusing on one of his seven theses of the monster culture by supporting his position with evidence from three different sources. In his work, 'Monster Culture,' Jeffrey Jerome Cohen introduces a new way of studying monsters in the context of the cultures…

Films can cause an array of emotions to stir up within a person. The many different genres of film can allow a person to choose what they want to feel while watching. The most popular film genre when searched is comedy. Within that there can be romantic comedy, action comedy, suspenseful comedy and more. The number of films that one can enjoy is endless. Each genre contains a handful of emotions that the viewer will be feeling. The genre that can be described as both loved and hated is the…

Horror stories are becoming increasingly popular in today’s era. The inquisitiveness of nature, behavior, and mysterious happenings in this specific genre have sparked interest in the unknown. When literary trends escaped the Age of Reason, literature was brought back to its traditional times when mysteries were fascinating. The most attainable model of creative narrative developed from the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages consisted of periods of crime, barbarism, works of witches, scientific…

characters, amazing set design, and the themes. The characters in these films are truly larger than life and nothing short of iconic. Bela Lugosi's Dracula is over-the-top in the most amazing ways. His voice and his costume will live in the halls of cinema for eternity. In the same movie, Edward Van Sloan's Dr. Van Helsing is also great. In 1931's Dracula you can truly feel these two great characters battling wits. My two favorites of this genre are James Whale's Frankenstein and Bride of…