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The Irish author Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker wrote in 1897 the horror novel ‘Dracula’. From all accounts, that Stoker based his horror novel on Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, who was a malicious count resident in Transylvania, the now-existing Romania. Dracula is an epistolary novel that falls under the category ‘Gothic fiction’, which combines horror, death, love and lust. The word ‘Gothic’ refers to the pseudo-medieval buildings (Gothic architecture), in which many of the narratives are set. By…

Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula has long been held to be possessed of out of control appetites. She is routinely framed as a sexually voracious woman, perhaps even one of the fin-de-siecle's dreaded “New Women,” whose overweening erotic desire is inextricably linked to the horror of her own vampirism and to the violence of her own demise. Reading Dracula as being at the confluence of uniquely Victorian anxieties regarding gender and sexuality, numerous of scholars have argued that a line…

Dracula is one of the most well known stories in literature.One of the reasons that it is so well known and is such a compelling story is that the main character is not shown most of the time.When he is shown he commits actions that are so compelling that it changes the story,Such as how he kills Reinfield and how everyone in the story wants to kill Dracula while he doesn’t commit many actions.Today we will find out how Bram stoker keeps his title character so much in the shadows for so much of…

vampiric mythology and all the stories his mother told him when he was bedridden as a child. Although myths and legends about vampires have been around for centuries, Stoker put his own spin on the tale and made it more evil than ever in his creation of Count Dracula. Many factors of Stoker’s life contributed to his great writing that changed the Gothic genre into the potency it is today. Abraham “Bram” Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland, the third out of seven…

There are many interesting differences and similarities between vampires and werewolves. The main conflict between both werewolves and vampires arises from believable fact they’re not real, but fictional. First of all, vampires are shape shifting beings, also cold blooded killers with no feeling or sympathy; also as well as remoras for their actions. Vampires come in different forms to rich to poor, with powerful fangs to directly pierce human pray. They are not human, but an undead…

Lucy one night sitting on a bench in the cemetery with a dark figure hovering above her. As Mina approaches Lucy the dark figure looks more like a person and then vanishes. Later in the novel Mina realizes that the dark figure over Lucy was really Count…

There are many differences between movie and novel in Twilight because they want to make a story line easy to understand and enjoy the story. Twilight is one of the most popular romantic stories across the world. Yet again, watching a movie and reading a story had a different feeling when it comes to understanding and enjoying the story line. The most obvious depiction of the main heroin character from the movie is, she is described as a woman who has a sarcastic attitude. Bella's character is…

RAMOS, PATRICIA R61 153486 LIT13 Saved by Nonconformity Twilight. The Vampire Diaries. These are two examples that prove the rise of the glossed-over vampire series of the new generation. Vampires are no longer characterized by pointy teeth and bloodlust, but romanticized to the point that they even become love interests. However in Resureksyon, they broke off from these clichés; and amidst the unclear plotline, unnecessary effects, and underwhelming characters, perhaps that…

“One for the road” By Stephen King, Gerard Lumely is a example of the impulsive one stereotype because of his lack of thinking. He doesn’t think before he does something. In fact that’s what had gotten him killed in the first place. Lumely is a really careless character in this story. The story “One for the road” is about this guy (Gerard Lumely) has gotten stuck in a snowstorm in maine.Gerard comes to a bar, and asks for help to come find his missing wife and…

The famous story of Dracula by Bram Stroker shows several interactions between the living and the undead. Dracula is a century old vampire who wants to come to London to create more of his own. His powers have no limits when it comes to humans, seducing them ad ordering them to do anything the vampire wishes. His powers are the main way of interacting between humans since any normal human without duress would see that he is evil. Dracula imprisons Jonathon Harker without him even realizing, he…