Dracula

Aiyana Pearson Jones 1 Dracula Essay 28 December 2014 To Be A Woman Speaking of sexualization, women in general can’t act or wear what they want without third party opinions. Why is how a female acts a topic of conversation? Why is it their responsibility to dress the way society tells them to because it distracts the opposite gender? I understand women are gaining rights. But, superficial thing such as dress codes and media are merely ways of controlling women and trying to place them…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) is his best-known novel, the content of which has been adapted numerous times and to numerous media, like cinema, television, other novels or video games, during the decades after its first publication. The story takes place from 3rd May to 6th November of an unknown year with a postscript note dated seven years after the main actions. Although the year is not further specified, the state-of-the-art media, science and technology employed in the novel indicate that…

Have you ever got yourself in a tough situation? If so, what did you do or what would you do? The author of the novel “Dracula”, Bram Stoker, provides an example of how a person in a predicament should not let him or herself be engulfed by fear and helplessness; this is done through the use of characterization. When you let yourself to be overcome by fear and helplessness, your mind can not be able to think straight. In this excerpt, the author characterize his character as a strong and…

be made out of stone with many secret passages ways to hidden, cluttered rooms. We also imagine antique furniture, with old artifacts. Almost like every room is decorated with historical things that have a very old story behind them. When reading Dracula this is the image I get. His castle located on the eastern side of Romania,…

part of literature for centuries. Recently vampires have been more popular than ever. From Dracula to Twilight, the way vampires have evolved continues to be a reflection of societies views and concerns. One subject that has always been a topic of discussion in vampire texts is gender roles. Most vampire texts depict a female victim who is seduced by a male vampire. This holds true for Bram Stockers, Dracula, and Stephanie Myers, Twilight. However, other texts such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s,…

Vampires come in many different shapes and sizes from F.Marion Crawford’s For the Blood is the Life to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Even though there are characteristics that change from tale to tale there are many that are the same. Vampires no matter what story you hear, they are dark, malevolent creatures out for “blood”. They want to take control of their victims to make…

When it comes to the supernatural, sometimes, you never want to be tied up in it. Alistor Squall was the king of the LA vampiric underworld and an extremely powerful vampire. At first glance, he didn't come off that way. With a fair complexion and a youthful face, it was hard to tell whether he was a vampire unless they were told. Furthermore, he came off as cordial, charismatic, and friendly. All traits that one would not normally associate with a vampiric king. But get him angry and his…

albeit their strikingly different attitudes toward life and love – Lucy is adored by three men and her greatest bother appears which one to choose as a husband. The affairs get truly complicated when one discovers that Lucy has been victimised by Dracula and begins acting strangely, which does not remain unnoticed by Abraham Van Helsing. Lucy is given blood transfusions but the vampire drains her of blood, which leads to her death as a human. As an immortal creature, Lucy’s “sweetness was…

“Nosferatu! That name alone can chill the blood! Nosferatu! Was it he who brought the plague to Bremen in 1838?” The causes of that terrible epidemic have been long sought, and found at its origin and its climax the innocent figures of Jonathan Harker and his young wife, Nina. It was a particularly normal morning in the small modest town of Wisberg. A young Jonathan Harker readied himself in the mirror for his job. He was a real-estate associate finding himself working for a man named Agent…

In Dracula, the author uses auditory and visual details to create a chilling and eerie mood. The “rising wind” that "moaned and whistled," along with the crashing branches of the trees, sets a haunting atmosphere (Stoker). The howling of the dogs and wolves, as well as the horses snorting and screaming with fright, intensifies the sense of danger and impending doom, sensed by nature itself. Visually, the lonely road is described as being "hemmed in with trees" that arch over the path like a…