Count Dracula

impregnable castle. None has ever walked away from our walls, that is, the castle of Transylvania. From here, London, Jonathan Harker had come into my home, unknowingly had fallen into his own nightmare. But the man was clever and even with the might of Dracula to frighten him more than once, he had escaped and blended in with the common people, leaving me powerless to haunt him down. I was languid today morning, with the thought of Jonathan Harker outclassing the strength…

>Klaus may as well not be a hybrid, just an Original who has some neat-o mutation to heal those with werewolf bites. Exactly! To be honest though the wolves from Twilight actually look like they're capable of bringing down a vampire unlike the TVD/TO ones. The Twilight wolves are huge while the ones we have on TVD/TO look how you've described, like wolf-dogs. When Hayley turned into a wolf it actually annoyed me because I believe that we should've seen Klaus do something like that first…

The term “gothic” was not only employed to characterize a kind of music, it was also used to categorize a writing that involved dark and gloomy elements. Known as Gothic Fiction or Gothic horror, this literary genre is really old. In fact, the Gothic fiction started in 1764, with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. The genre reached its success’ pinnacle during the 19th century, with writers such as Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) or Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). In the 20th century, the Gothic…

literature can be described as writing that evokes a dark or moody scene often with death involved. Authors who are famous for this type of writing consist of Edgar Allen Poe, Horace Walpole, and many more. Many Gothic stories have made it to film, life Dracula and Frankenstein. Most authors don’t get much credit for the movies, but they take it all when it comes to who wrote the story for the film. On average, two out of five people enjoy watching scary movies that have Gothic appeal. Some…

Leave it to Jim Jarmusch, the director who gave film audiences the "psychedelic western," 1995's "Dead Man," and the gangster/samurai hybrid, "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai," to find a way to put his own unique stamp on that most trendy of cinematic monsters: the vampire. In "Only Lovers Left Alive," Jarmusch finds a way to shake off the recently accumulated residue of too many sparkly, lovesick bloodsuckers by recontextualizing the supernatural creatures as the ultimate hipsters. More than…

formula together and has begun to endorse these mesmerizing creatures in a more favorable light. These vampires have haunted our popular culture for centuries and have gone a long way to increase its popularity. Starting with the classic gothic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker and Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, focuses on drinking blood and causing turmoil than progress…

Similar to defiance of Social norms, Stoker uses Vampirism to expand on the traits of sexual needs within the New Woman. When Lucy is bitten by Dracula, she slowly begins to lose the identity of a Victorian Era Woman as her lustful desires slowly increase. Through her desperate need for blood from different contributors besides Arthur, the transfusion shows the secretive intimate connection she has with each of the suitors. By the time she is near death, Lucy had received blood from all the…

Breaking Down and Analyzing Dracula Have you ever pondered what the true meaning of Dracula is or what purpose it was written for? In the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker there are many literary elements that fall into the tome. Many of which can be detected with ease and some of which that are trying to recognize. Bram Stoker intended the novel to be this way and wrote it so the reader would find more elements with each endeavor. Five of them in particular stuck out among many evaluations. Symbol,…

women and their social roles. During the Victorian Era, the specifics to what women should and should not be touched over their education, professional expectations, sexuality, and social expectations. Bram Stoker’s Dracula surfaced in the heat of this movement. Stoker’s Dracula is much more than science fiction fantasy about vampires, due to the content included about the female characters. While there is much speculation about whether or not Stoker intended to question the feminist…

How did the genre arise and how did it change when television came? Before the genre started evolving into what it is today, the method of frightening people through words and tales has been done from at least the first recorded stories. But before we continue, when spoken of horror it is not all that frightens man, but all supernatural fiction with a dark side; witches, werewolves, etc. Folklore and religious traditions contain the roots of horror because of fictional characters, for example…