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well as in the film adaptation of Hammer Films Production Dracula (1958), in which Christopher Lee interprets the role of the Count as an aristocratic attractive vampire. In this way, writers and directors of the twentieth century created vampires that made the audience feel more sympathetic towards them than to those creatures of the folklore and the previous literature. In what concerns to literature, there have been many different representations of the vampiric figure. From the beginning of…

Published in 2012, Tanya Pikula’s article on “Earnest Men, Virtuous Ladies and Porn” aims to explore the sexualised commodity culture of the Victorian period by providing an alternative reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Having stated the novel has a “quasi-pornographic” quality , Pikula comments on the way Stoker exploits sex to draw significance to the hyper-sexual fin-de-siècle practices such as consumption, materialistic production and the rise of the ‘modern’ women in regards to late…

name of Van Helsing not only acknowledges but understands the supernatural. During this time period, it was very common for people to deny the supernatural from fear of it. Van Helsing becomes the antagonist to one of these supernatural creatures, Count Dracula, because he is the most threatening to this evil being. The Professor starts to find Dracula's weaknesses and uses them in order to bring him to his doom. While Van Helsing is able to follow the vampire, Dracula still finds diabolical…

genre itself, but cinematic history in its entirety. The film follows the story of a young married man, Thomas Hutter, and his journey to meet a client by the name of Count Orlok who may be interested in purchasing real-estate in his city. Upon arriving at his decrepit castle high in the Carpathian Mountains he becomes aware that Count Orlok may be a far more sinister character than he was lead to believe. He sleeps during the day, looms ominously about, and seems to have a strange obsession…

The film opens up with a flashback to 1462, where Dracula’s story as a Romanian knight is told. This flashback actually connects back to the book where Jonathan Harker writes in his journal that Dracula tells him about his family’s history. This includes the Szekelys fight and defeat of the Turks. But the film’s flashback also adds in the love story motif between Dracula and Elisabeta that is not present in the novel. This romance travels throughout the entire of the film, where Mina turns into…

On the other side of the spectrum, Mina Murray from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a character who is only bound by her own perception. In the beginning of The League, she was given a task by Campion Bond, who is an Intermediary between The League and Mina Murray. She was assigned to recruit high value assets for the sake of Her Majesty. Not only does Mina have success with her assignment, but she also ends up leading the League in its fight to retrieve cavorite from Fu Manchu.…

In Dracula, written in 1897 by Bram Stoker, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray are the two lead female character roles. They are close friends, despite their age difference. They are different in several ways; Lucy is a teenager while Mina is an educated schoolteacher. Lucy is immature and clouded by her emotions and feelings, whereas Mina is level headed and maintains her composure. And finally, Lucy is deeply concerned with finding a husband for comfort and Mina is financially stable and…

Comparing Characterization Movies that feature characters adapted from novels often change personality traits in order to suit the film’s plot. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was no exception; Mina Harker and the Invisible Man had drastic changes made to their personality in order to better suit the storyline. Both of these characters were estranged from society. Mina Harker had few friends outside of her close circle and the Invisible Man isolated himself from the people of Iping. The…

Dracula is a horror novel set in Europe in the mid 1800’s. The book starts with Johnathon Harker heading to Transylvania on a business trip to sell Dracula, a wealthy count in Transylvania, real estate in London. After strange incidents of Count Dracula attempting to suck Johnathon’s blood, and imprison him, Johnathon escapes. The novel then switches to Mina Murray’s, Johnathon’s fiancé, and her friend, Lucy Westenra’s, points of view through their letters. It is mostly just gossip, but there…

passwords, cash from the till and several other privileges. Employee theft is a big threat to companies because it could take plenty amounts of time to figure out who the culprit is. Strategies to reduce employee theft • Take physical inventory count semi-annually or annually • Install cameras In the rest of the store, including the shipping and receiving end • Get to know the employee 's • Create a joyful work experience to look forward to. To prevent future employment theft , the process…