Dracula

Dracula and Once on This Island are two of many productions that have been put on by The Gainesville Theatre Alliance. The Gainesville Theatre Alliance is a widely known alliance between The University of North Georgia and Brenau University. During this year’s February festival taking place on February 9th through the 20th, the alliance produced the thrilling tale of Dracula and the inspirational musical of the love story of Once on This Island. The Gainesville Theatre Alliances stage adaption…

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, searching for vampires on Google hit it’s peak (Trends).Twilight jump-started the careers of Stephanie Meyer, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and even the pop-punk group Paramore. Stories of vampires began far before Dracula and Twilight. It’s origins were from Slavic folklore, and the first written accounts of the word began in the 11th century.The origin of vampires is actually kind of silly looking at it now. During the process of decomposition, gases would rise…

Lloyd Owusu Professor Macfie November 9, 2017 Rus 313-01 Dr. Zhivago Literary Work and Film Comparison The juxtaposition of literature and film has forever haunted the entertainment industry. There is nothing that can replace delving into a novel and getting lost for hours, or rather going to a theatre and watching the pictures unfold on a screen. With a book, the picture in one’s imagination is entirely subject to what the author pens on the pages but with a movie, the story is portrayed…

In 1988 Paul Barber published Vampires, Burial and Death, which is probably the most extensive and influential of the new scholarship concerning vampires that came out of the late twentieth century. He sought to demystify the vampire all the while not completely discrediting the sources, just explaining what they saw scientifically. He makes the wonderful analogy of Copernicus’ epicycles, a logical and reasonable—albeit wrong- way of explaining a natural phenomenon. Barber goes to great length…

To the “Night Witches” of the 588th, their femininity was the focus as much as much their dedication to their dangerous missions, as shown in snippets of true stories that members went through. Although definitely not the only one to experience such dangers, Nina Raspopova’s near death stories highlight some of the many dangers that the 588th faced, and she stresses in her account that she was never not afraid (Noggle, 2001). During one of her missions in 1942, she and her navigator, Larisa…

INTRODUCTION The aim of this essay is to give an explicit overview of the gothic elements in the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”. The main point of interest concerns the haunted house which is a typical feature of gothic literature. At the beginning the readers is introduced to the story through a summary. This will be followed by a general explanation of the gothic genre and its typical features. Furthermore the outer appearance of the mansion and the thereby upcoming unpleasant…

In the story, “The Lay of the Werewolf”, a faithful husband gets dishonored by his wife after the wife finds out that the husband is half werewolf. The story takes place in Ancient Greek, during the Medieval Times, where the Greeks wrote that people could be transformed into werewolves. The story really gives off a good example on how the people that you think you can trust with your life, especially in this case, can turn on you for the money, fame, power, etc. The three themes that are shown…

The shining is a horror fiction novel by the author Stephen King. Stephen King is famous for his novels in the horror genre and The Shining is just one of the many thrilling books he has written. The Shining tells the story of a family of three: Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy Torrance, and their son Danny Torrance and the winter they spend at the Overlook Hotel. The Shining tells a great horror story, but what makes it a memorable book is the amount of detail that Stephen King provides the reader…

Research by John Lanska and Douglas Lanska (2012) stated that the disease was first described by John Todd in 1955. They mentioned that Todd named it after Lewis Carroll who fabricated the story of "Alice in Wonderland". The disease was named after the story because the character Alice fell into an abyss that was a portal to another world where eating and drinking can make you miniature or gargantuan. The effect of AIWS is similar. It can stimulate headaches and visual perceptions such as…

Everyone knows the most famous horror movies. Although they don’t have their own category of horror movies they are considered classics. There are four main types of horror movies. The first is Monsters, which has the sub genre, creatures.That includes werewolves, vampires and other creatures of that sort. Another sub-genre is neo monsters, typically each neo monster film a different creature is created with different attributes and features. The other two common sub-genres in the monsters…