Dracula

Le Fanu’s story of Carmilla has been adapted as a web series, in which the setting is modern day society at a college campus. Laura remains the narrator of the thirty-six-episode season, where she records all of the events from her dorm room as part of her journalism class. The web series stays loyal to Carmilla reprising the role of the female vampire in the story, while also implying other female romantic relationships. In the short story Le Fanu’s choice of using a female vampire oppose to a…

Everyone knows vampires, the beings of mythical legends that feed on human blood. Luckily, they aren’t real… but vampire bats are. You may be thinking, “Nah, those bats only feed on, like, birds and horses and stuff…” but it turns out, you’d be wrong and possibly afraid. Researchers have recently found that not only do vampire bats feed on things other than their birds or cows, but humans, too. Inhabiting the northeastern forests of Brazil, the hairy-legged vampire bat is one of three species…

One night you walked into a mysterious graveyard where the thick fog covers your feet the tombs began to awake and ghouls come out to play. Would you be terrified or would you find it thrilling? ¨Goose Bumps Attack Of The Graveyard Ghouls¨, is a real page turner if you want thrills shiver down your spine. This book has a 1st person view this allow us to have a vivid illustration. This book is science fiction due by the cover. Our main character is a boy named Spenccer lived in a little town…

Myles Hypse Hypse 1 Film & Lit. Ms. Noah September 18th, 2015 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer; and directed by Robert Wiene, this film is considered to be the first horror movie ever made. Released in 1922, this film mesmerized audiences, including myself with its new age setting and German expressionism style of filming that was unlike anything anyone had seen before. Instead of building a set, they used large, blank canvases and what…

In the nonfiction article, “Vampires Prey On Panama” by Chris Kraul, there are multiple opinions or ideas that are present throughout the article about the Vampire bats. These ideas were represented by Quoted Words. Quoted Words are statements that were quoted by the author. These quotes are usually quoted from somebody that is a voice of authority, from a personal perspective or other perspective/other words. Quoted Words are present throughout the article, Oliva, a farmer who is troubled with…

“Vampires and Vixens” written by Alison Happel and Jennifer Esposito is an article written to educate and advise readers of present feministic and post-feministic controversy veiled in today’s media, specifically in the movie ‘Twilight’ directed by Catherine Hardwicke. The two authors express their concerns about the film by addressing the film itself, the teachings of popular culture, post-feminism, and sexualized violence. Even though the article “Vampires and Vixens” did contradict itself…

rebelliousness of the most radical heroines in New Woman fiction is directed not only at the vows and legal constraints of the role she has been expected to assume but at motherhood itself. ( Johnson 4) Lucy and the three sisters prey upon children in Dracula. This symbolic act shows that they do not have protective feelings for children as the traditional woman does but rather a resentment towards them as the New Woman has. With this in mind, it is clear that Stoker is trying to send a moral…

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…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula vs Vlad the Impaler It is a known fact that Bram Stoker based his famous novel ‘Dracula’ on the legend of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia. Vicious acts that defy humanity, but most importantly his insatiable thirst for blood and the fact that he impales all his enemies still twitching bodies on a stick earned him his nickname Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler in english. Although the word ‘dracula’ has a distinctive meaning than the word people associate it with today, a…

Recently, people have had a fascination with the paranormal, mainly vampires. From books to movies to television shows, people have found very different ways to view these blood sucking creatures of the night. As the years have gone by, new stories were created and more lore was added to the original folklore. And the beginning of this appeal began in both fifteenth century Wallachia and eighteenth century England. Prince Vlad III of Wallachia, also known as Vlad the Impaler, was a clever…