Dracula

What holiday is the Nightmare Before Christmas to you? People think its is christmas because they're trying to make halloween town to christmas town. Personally I think the Nightmare Before Christmas is a Halloween movie. All the presents were very creepy, the characters were scary and the decorations were still like halloween. This paragraph, will explain how all the decorations were scary. In the movie the reindeer were dead while flying. The fountain had a scary green color of water. It is…

What I believed to be the cold dead hands of the grim reaper plucked me off the ground and dragged me up the hill. A light much brighter than a million suns filled my eyes, and I heard someone with a formal voice call my name. To keep the light out of my eyes I kept them close passing back out and waking up when the carriage I was in ran over a rock in the middle of the dirt road. Samuel and Julia were siting across from me or at least I thought I saw them until Julia blew a cloud of green…

Sex! Damnation! Superstition! All this along with vampires. No, not Twilight. These are the ideas Stoker implicitly instills in Dracula. In Victorian England, there exists a certain ideal for women, and society as a whole, from social to religious and even political standards. For this reason, in writing Dracula, while telling of a quest to kill a dangerous monster, Stoker uses symbols, metaphors, as well as references to the Greek God Hades to tell different underlying stories: of lust, of…

getting their selves into, but the interesting tales leave one searching for answers and lead them to explore the dangers of the night. “The 1897 gothic novel, Dracula is a very mysterious story written by Bram Stoker” (Stoker 3). “Taken place in a shadowy, ruined castle with tall black windows came no…

down to see Castle Dracula. My home. Its towers still covered by the fading night. It…

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Capitalism pressures society to consume more and produce more (Magdoff, 2013). In Daybreakers, the vampirism outbreak caused many humans to turn into vampires. The demand for human blood surged and this caused human hunting and farming. Edward’s brother, Frankie, confesses to turning Edward because he does not want his brother to be captured and farmed. This is probably true for many of the existing vampires – they turn others because the human hunt by the capitalists pressured them to. In this…

Blood sucker, dead, predator: These are all words that can describe a vampire. There have been several vampire stories throughout the years. Each author takes and gives them different characteristics but they usually are universally described as a creature that was once human that somehow has returned from the dead and preys on living humans by drinking their blood to stay alive. Dr. John William Polidori, an English writer and physician, is said to have created the first written vampire story…

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Twilight (2005) tells the story of an ordinary shy girl that falls in love with a vampire. Bella is the new girl in school and for that reason becomes the attention of everyone, even the weird vampire siblings. As she starts to get accustomed to the new town, friends and school, she discovers her interest for Edward. Through Jacob she suspects that Edward might in fact be a vampire. After confronting Edward he confirms and their relationship becomes more serious as they start to fall in love for…