Dracula

Friedrich Murnau's “Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens“, translated into English as “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror” is one of the most important films in not only the horror 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…

gained another villain: Dracula. Stoker novel, Dracula, started a craze of vampirism that is still relevant today. What made this novel mainstream in the Romanic era is the way Gothic elements are intertwined in the novel. Dracula’s use of the archetypal character, drama, ATMOSPHERE OR ENVIROMENT, and decay earns it the honor of being considered Romantic, or Gothic, literature. In Gothic literature, there is always a hero and a villain archetype character. In Dracula, Dracula is the…

1764 – 1840 ( London: Leicester University Press, 2000), 1,40 . 36 Ibid.,2 37 David Punter, The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day (New York: Longman, 1980), 59. 38 Elizabeth Miller, ed., Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Volume, 304th vol. (Farmington Hills, MI : Thomson Gale, 2005), 99. 39 “The First Wave of Gothic Novels: 1765-1820,” Academic Brooklyn Cuny, http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/ history .html (accessed…

Directed by F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu: a Symphony of Horror, and Sunrise: A song of two humans, are silent films from the 1920's. Throughout Sunrise, two young lovers rekindle their romance while Nosferatu is a horror adaptation of Bram Stoker’s, Dracula. While they differ in genre, both are similar in that they consist of a young couple who encounter a threatening situation. The element of space becomes an interesting aspect relevant to both films as it helps to foresee the events of what is to…

The film was made during the depression, and like other films from the depression era, it dealt with the struggles of everyday life and otherness. Films such as James Whales Frankenstein (1931), Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931), Joesf von Strenberg’s The Docks of New York (1928), and others dealt with depression themes by keeping us in a depressed world. The audience could identify with the otherness or characters within the film because the world they lived in was…

the searching is trespassing. In the novel Dracula, the protagonist Jonathan Harker trespasses into forbidden areas and in the story “Berenice,” the protagonist, Egaeus, trespasses into the unknown. In the poem, “I Heard a Fly Buzz,” a fly trespasses by invading the narrators last few moments. In the movie The Conjuring, the Perron family moves into a house in which the former owners feel as if they are trespassing on their property. In the novel Dracula, the protagonist Jonathan Harker…

In Frankenstein, the creature is considered a monster because of how he looks. He starts off as almost a baby and he is molded by the reactions of other people into becoming evil. Count Dracula is a monster because of how he looks and the terrible things he does to the protagonists throughout the novel Dracula. On the contrary to the other two books, the monster in 1984 is not a creature but is a group of evil humans. The creature in Frankenstein does not start off as a destructive force. He…

Jeffrey Cohen is a professor of English and Director of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute. He specializes in many areas of research but he is famed for exploring monster; a subject that we will be looking at in this paper. I will be focusing on one of his seven theses of the monster culture by supporting his position with evidence from three different sources. In his work, 'Monster Culture,' Jeffrey Jerome Cohen introduces a new way of studying monsters in the context of the cultures…

occur when a person embarks on romance and sex with a vampire. Vampires use their looks as a tool of deception to objectify mortals and to get anything they want. For instance, Jonathan Harker experiences compelling sexual desires in Bram Stroker’s Dracula, when he sees three vampire ladies in Count Dracula’s castle. Jonathan mentioned “there [is] something about them that [makes] me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some…

On Friday October 28th, 2016 at 7:00pm, I attended Dracula: Ballet with a Bite. Dracula was held at the Koger Center in Columbia, South Carolina. This ballet was performed by numerous dancers from the Columbia City Ballet including, Claire McCaa, Bonnie Boiter-Jolley, Autumn Hill, Philip Ingrassia, Manu Navarro, and Oscar Sanchez. There were plenty more dancers that performed, these are just some to name a few. All of the performers put a lot of hard work into this show so that they could…