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    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…

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    So, maybe Transylvania aka Romania wasn’t one of these countries but the uneasy feeling is still there. What does Hollywood do when they want to make an antagonist seem even scarier? They make the antagonist a foreigner. This novel would not have been as enticing and thrilling if Dracula was from England. Even making his character French or American would not have been as effective. These two cultures were ones the Brits already knew well enough not to fear. Stoker was clever to make Dracula…

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    I Am Legend by Richard Matheson was a brilliant, enticing read. It is definitely the most interesting, multi-layered vampire story I have ever read. It provided the genre with such unique and authentic qualities, allowing Matheson to impregnate a unique believability of these vampires into my mind. Robert Neville, the protagonist of the novel, is the only survivor of a devastating pandemic which plagued the rest of the population with a form of vampirism. Neville spends much of his days…

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    live in an apartment abutting the Schouwburg’s rear courtyard, and Lydia did take photographs of the Jewish prisoners when she recognised a childhood friend among them.” But, what I’m actually here to talk about, is what motivated Mina to take pictures of everything. Mina worked at the Schouwburg and she witnessed all of the cruel things happening to her people, people she knew.“‘I read about some photographers in an underground paper. They take pictures of the occupation. They document it, so…

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    Shake & stirs adaptation of Dracula followed the plot of the original novel by Bram Stoker. Throughout the performance, Michael Futcher’s directorial choices regarding the elements of drama, acting skills and the gothic style made for a mostly effective creation and portrayal of the dramatic meaning, that there is evil in everything and everyone, and we fear it. The effectiveness dramatic meaning was conveyed through the successfulness of the dramatic action. The directorial choices by Michael…

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    eyes. I thought it was a trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow; but I kept looking, and it could be no delusion… I feel the dread of this place overpowering me; I am in fear- in awful fear - and there is no escape for me” (p.33). Once Harker sees and witnesses the supernatural he does not know what to make of it. This revelation causes Jonathan to become more distressed, with witnessing such action the reader can infer that things abnormal will continue to occur. Another example of…

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    These immigrants do not seem care about the impending conflict over their stay, as they continue with life as if nothing has changed and even cause some of our own to defect and support the immigrants. This trait is indicative of the vampire as with a mere bite, the victims become vampires upon their deaths to and arise to serve Dracula in finding new prey. One of Dracula’s first victims that met this doomed fate was Lucy Westenra. Lucy’s unfortunate end was meant to be an especially terrible…

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    “The Vampire Diaries” Season 8, News Update: Is Stefan’s Promise to Elena His Motivation to Save Damon Season 7 finale of “The Vampire Diaries” left fans with a perturbing mystery. After Damon and Enzo were affected by the monster in the vault, every fan has been curious to know their fate. Theories are swirling around in good numbers and one says that Stefan’s promise to Elena has got a lot to do with his resurrection. Stefan is that one person who truly believes that Damon is still alive…

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    Harry potter vs. Lord Voldemort, Batman vs. Joker, or Avengers vs. Loki. Like all those movies, the same theme of good vs. Evil is involved in this play called Dracula. This play is about a Dracula which is an evil character and other character like Van Helsing, Renfield and Lucy are the good character and are trying to vanish the Dracula.Dracula is a Play adapted by Hamilton Deane in 1924 from the novel Dracula which was written by Bram Stoker in 1897 and then revised by John L. Balderston in…

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    ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker is an example of Gothic fiction. What characteristic features of Gothic fiction can you see in the novel? Does Stoker depart from any principles of Gothic fiction? How? Why? Discuss. Understood as a genre in literature and film, Gothic fiction combines elements of fiction, horror, death and romance to paint a bright picture of the quirks of the era. The everlasting popularity of Gothic fiction feeds on our desire to indulge in innocent but hearty chunks of terror. Bram…

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