Dracula

Dracula was a really good movie. In the script it is more details. The script is better than the actual movie if I say myself. But everybody has different opinions. It also describes how everything was done. I liked how the movie was about stuff that happen in actual real life. Meaning that sometimes we are with someone and think that we are in-love and we are ready to have a life with them and we see our lives with them. Until someone from the blue moon comes and gets your attention and makes…

Gothic fiction in television has taken the world by storm. Everyday there is something that relates to the gothic side of society. Television shows have such a great impact on society that anywhere a person looks, there is always someone talking about things that happen on television that they almost cannot avoid hearing about it. Any television show is going to have an impact on people in general, but some have a greater affect than others. Eric Kripke, the master mind behind the hit television…

In this essay, I will be exploring the changing presentation of sexuality within classic Victorian literature, exemplified with the use of a case study of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I would argue that perhaps more than in any other literary period, any textual inclination towards sexuality deteriorated as the eighteenth century progressed, ‘desexualising’ it, or, at least confining it to the bedroom doors of married couples. Additionally, whilst essentialist…

different sets of morals over time based on religion and other perceptions of good and evil in literature and different forms media going back from the Victorian era till now. In the books the strange cases of Dr .Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the hunger games, Dracula and Beowulf this are some of the literate that support the morels and how good and evil was perceive and how their actions were justified as good or evil. The thesis for this paper is that morals and perception of good and evil in society…

Vlad the Impaler: The Original Dracula Dracula. Everybody knows who that is. He inspires terror in everybody's heart. He is the blood sucking monster that haunted Transylvania. He is an iconic legend that has inspired a countless amount of classic movies and novels to this day. However you may be surprised to know that he is not pure fiction. Bram Stoker the author of “Dracula” based his novel off of the Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Tepes or “Vlad the impaler” as he was called as a result of his…

burns her (Stoker 258-259). It is only the women who become corrupted in this way by Dracula because the act of drinking blood is a perversion of a sexual act, and they let him drink from them when he uses his vampiric seduction abilities. They give in to the desire that he elicits in them, instead of controlling themselves like the men do when they encounter the female vampires. Perhaps it is the fact that Dracula is a much older vampire and as such has better control over his abilities, but…

(1886), ‘Carmilla’ (1872) and ‘Dracula’(1897). The gothic novel is recognised to have begun in England in the late 1700s with heavy focus on setting to show a decaying world, with the characters following similar roles in each novel. The protagonist is almost always isolated and the antagonist is always solely evil in its actions. These classic gothic novels have inspired countless stories and on screen adaptions…

the key elements that classify certain literature as Gothic and the authors that made this genre successful. Next, I’ll examine the themes and content of my chosen text, Dracula and how it classifies as gothic literature in regards to the key elements. I’ll also discuss a handful of adaptations made based on Stoker’s Dracula over the centuries and how well they did regarding their interpretation as well as what I have learned from them. Finally, I’ll explain the development of my creative piece…

Bram Stoker is the author of one of the greatest genre-changing novels of all time, Dracula. Throughout the writing process, there are many factors to take into account that affect an author’s writing style. Bram Stoker chose to follow the genre of gothic horror/ historical fiction in Dracula because of his interests in vampiric mythology. Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish potato famine. He was the third of seven children of his father, whom worked at…

Therefore, he embarks on a mission to capture and defeat Dracula. He diagnosed Lucy from her mysterious illness. The treatment he used on her were the use of garlic flowers he hoped the odor might be beneficial to her healing process. “aha I thought I had diagnosed the case my treatment is working” (115).…