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For many centuries love has been defined as many things like as the worst thing you can ever experience or the best thing that can ever happen to a human being depending on the experience and can be defined by different people this is one of the definitions of love: true love is putting someone else's needs before your own and to want what is best for them. The story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet are two starcrossed-lovers both their families are similar in dignity…

Can love be a tragedy? In Williams Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it is just that. A tale set where two hate ridden families must learn to love one another. The Capulets and Montagues rivalry tearing everyone, both their families and Verona apart. Romeo and Juliet is a timeless classic that has stayed elegant and yet evolved with the generations that read it in ways such as, the plot, characters and ending. The plot of Romeo and Juliet has always been about two forbidden lovers in Verona,…

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is commonly known as one of literature’s finest romances, but it is actually one literature’s most ironic romances. While it is a well-written piece of literature, it is a very unrealistic and sudden story of how two star-crossed lovers meet and end. Since Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is formed during a few days, the two are not truly in love. The couple was not truly in love, but rather they were carried away with their emotions, tried to escape their…

Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) takes the life of vampire Louis Pointe du Lac as the subject matter. A reporter wants to listen to his story so Louis starts to tell how he became a vampire and what he had been through. Louis mentions that he used to be a plantation master and he suffered a lot after the death of his wife while giving birth to their child in 1791 of Spanish Louisiana. Then he is turned into a vampire by Lestat and hates being a vampire after killing people and…

Do you Believe in Werewolves? Well, the people of 1600s Bamberg, Germany did. The Werewolf of Bamberg: A Hangman’s Daughter Tale is the fifth of the six, soon to be seven, books of the novel series A Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch. Potzsch gets his inspiration for the series from the history of his ancestors on his mother’s side. He uses one of his family’s four generations of executioners, Jakob Kuisls, and his family as the main characters. Each book follows parts of Magdalena Kuisls’,…

normally associated with aristocrats whereas in the film Nosferatu, Count Orlok’s appearance is nightmarish and closer to that of a monster than of a human. He is shown to have misshapen eyebrows, huge pointed ears, long claws which are sharp for nails, walks around in an abnormal way and does not have any of the charm of Dracula. While Count Dracula has shape shifting abilities where he can transform into a wolf, dog and a bat, Count Orlok does not transform or change into anything. Both the…

The novel was written in 1897, depicting a story about the mysterious Vampire Count Dracula. A young woman called Lucy is killed by Dracula, which forces a group of her friends to try to solve the case and chase Dracula to prevent further deaths. Stoker's novel was incredibly influential throughout the entire 20th century, especially…

Mieville espouses the same claim in The Tain. As opposed to the Morgan Library, the British Museum is the repository of cultural property: “The Fish of the Mirror lived in the British Museum. At its heart, the vampire had told Sholl. Surrounded by the detritus of men and women from ancient Americas, from the east, from the old Greece and Egypt…. The Fish of the Mirror lived in the corridors made of time, of incarceration…” (74). The patchogues understand the museum as a site of power, which…

Dracula by Bram Stoker is a Gothic horror novel about a vampire named Count Dracula, who plans to move from Transylvania to England. Stoker published his novel in 1897, and his work draws from many historical events that are displayed throughout his novel. The concept of immigration was popular during this time; it gave rise to a huge debate regarding racial purity versus racial deterioration. In addition to the concept of immigration, another significant event during this time was the rise of…

The Depictions Of Vampires: True Blood vs. The Vampire Diaries Vampires are popular in contemporary culture. They are the go-to creatures, the phenomenon people love featuring in TV shows and movies, such as The Vampire Diaries and True Blood. Vampires are some of the most popularized and interesting creatures depicted in fiction. They are the vampire’s literature raves about in novels; however, these creatures have taken an alternate route in appearance regarding popular media. Therefore, both…