Count Olaf

The label of hero is not just used for men but also for women. There are many examples of female heroes’ in movies and in literature. However, it didn’t start out that way. In the 1800s, European society expected for any woman portrayed in literature to exhibit certain characteristics. Generally, women tended to be weak willed, primarily interested in marriage, and rarely, if ever, encountered real hardship. These are now well worn stereotypes. While these traits can be found in many of the…

main goals. The first goal that will be concentrated on now is to find the similarities and differences between the two vampire characters Edward Cullen and Count Dracula and how they are portrayed in terms of aspects of behavior, actions, life and appearance. The aim is the following questions: How is Edward Cullen portrayed in contrast to Count Dracula? Which differences and similarities are there between the two vampire characters? The second goal that will be examined later is to determine…

With reference to the key concepts of purity and impurity, magical thinking, mythmaking, formalization, and the strong emotions it can be shown that the character Count Dracula is dangerous, and that is was right for him to be treated as such. To be dangerous in this case means to be have both the potential and the desire to cause some sort of extreme detriment to others, whatever the motive behind the action is. Dracula caused much harm to others including physical/mental pain, suffering, and…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the center of supernatural creatures lives and their plans? I read a part two version of a book called The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith. Officially, a new vampire, Elena is learning how to live her new life after she passed away by driving off a bridge. She was lucky to have vampire blood in her system, otherwise, she would have never come back from the dead. Stefan Salvatore, her boyfriend who is also a vampire, helps Elena survive despite…

To the rest of the world Dracula ends with Jonathan Harker’s note about the group of vampire hunters returning to Transylvania. To me that ending never happened. After Count Dracula turned to dust and Quincey Morris died, the group returned home. Ten years later, a new ending began. This new ending changes the entire novel by changing villains, new fears, and a mystery ending. In my new ending, I gave a few characters some unique characteristics. Baddie, which is the name of the Harkers’ cat,…

the vampire. His character, Dracula remained popular through the ages, being one of the most popular adaptation source in history. Dracula has created an extraordinary vampire subculture, and an enormous amount of films have been made that feature Count Dracula as it’s main antagonist, or protagonist. However, most adaptations do not include the major characters from the novel, focusing only on the now traditional characteristics of a vampire, created by Stoker. In this essay I will focus on the…

Once upon a time, there were two different families that didn't like each other called the capulets and the montagues. A girl on the capulet side named Juliet and a boy named Romeo from the montague family met and they fell in love. Throughout the book of William shakespeare, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, there have been many occasions where romeo and juliet have shown being in love. Some things that show romeo and juliet are in love, is they both are willing to die for eachother, they are in…

Responsibility is taking charge of one's actions, sometimes responsibility leads to benefit yourself and others, but sometimes it brings unhappiness and a negative impact on one. To summarize, William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, an ancient fight between the Montague and Capulet households disturb the streets of Verona and causing the awful outcome of the star crossed lover. Revenge, love, and a secret marriage drived the couple to grow quickly, and destiny then lead them to commit suicide in…

Throughout time, there has been many tragedies caused by romance. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a great example of romantic tragedy. In the play, Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, two feuding families cause tragic results for their children, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The events contrast hatred and revenge with love and a secret marriage, forcing the young lovers to die tragically in despair. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet can be blamed upon Friar Lawrence, the…

Romeo and Juliet is a play written by Shakespeare that was about two young people falling into an unbreakable love. Were Romeo and Juliet really in love with each other? Romeo and Juliet could not have been in love, they were both young, barely knew each other, and they were willing to die because they thought that was the only way they could be together. Juliet was only 14 years old when she decided to marry Romeo. Her father Capulet said, “My child is yet a stranger in the world. She hath not…