Matej Mináč

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…

Sigmund Freud was a great mind at its best. A medical genius who is father to one of the most important findings in history: psychoanalysis, and someone whose studies are immensely portrayed in the novel of Bram Stoker’s: Dracula. The novel is about a man named Jonathan Harker, a lawyer, who unknowingly takes a business trip to the devils house in Transylvania where he is held prisoner by his host: Count Dracula. Harker finally escapes his captor but is very ill and ends up resting in the…

The story of the vampire in the gothic novel is one that began centuries ago. Nowadays, the meaning of the word ‘gothic’ is commonly misconstrued. The word originally pertained to a Germanic tribe called the Goths, centuries later it came to describe novels such as ‘Frankenstein’ (1818) , ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ (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…

Romanticism is something of a constant play, the pieces to me always seem so foreign given the leagues differences in what I am used to. Romanticism also seemed to me like it should be foreign to the vampire. Being a twenty-year old kid from America, I already had a preconceived idea on what a vampire should be, how it should act and look like etc, so seeing and reading these things act like a bunch of overdramatized bunch of actors I honestly couldn’t take many of the stories seriously. Nothing…

Paragraph One: This paragraph will be about the changes by look from Dracula and The Vampire Diaries vampires. I plan on researching the the different looks of vampires like the skin, fangs, the face structure, the eyes and the clothes they wear. And also the what peoples think of these features and why they have those certain features.. Paragraph Two: This paragraph will be about the changes in Dracula to the vampires in The Vampire Diaries abilities. I plan on researching the difference…

story, Lucy appears to be, at least for the time period, an immoral woman. Her encounters with Dracula are sensual, and suggest the occurrence of sexual taboos, such as sex outside marriage, sex with someone who is not your partner, and so forth. When Mina asks Lucy if she recalls any details of the night of her rendezvous with Dracula, Lucy states: “Then I had a vague memory of something long and dark with red eyes, just as we saw in the sunset, and something very sweet and very bitter all…

charms given to him by local peasants. Yet, the mission continues, and he goes on through the many disconcerting obstacles to reach the residence, only to realize a few days later that he is now a prisoner of the castle. Simultaneously, his fiance, Mina Murray’s, friend Lucy becomes a victim of Dracula., and doctors Seward…

The Victorian Era was a period during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), where England had an outreach across the world through the use of colonialization and their development of science and technology. Darwin’s evolutionary theory of humans coming from ancestors of apes caused huge uproar, which got people thinking about god and religion. Also, due to the new found industrial revolution causing a rapid growth of factories, mills, industries and the ever growing middle class caused people…

Mina Harker’s Diary 6 November. -- It has been ten years since Quincey Morris died, but I still dream of that frightful day. The nightmares are a nightly occurrence these past weeks. Every time I close my eyes, I see the red glowing eyes of the Count watching me. Jonathan tells me I wake him up screaming about bats and blood, but I have no memory of these events. Jonathan Harker’s Journal 10 November, midnight. -- Mina wakes around this time nightly; however, when confronted, she has no…