Mina Harker

In this essay, I will be exploring the changing presentation of sexuality within classic Victorian literature, exemplified with the use of a case study of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I would argue that perhaps more than in any other literary period, any textual inclination towards sexuality deteriorated as the eighteenth century progressed, ‘desexualising’ it, or, at least confining it to the bedroom doors of married couples. Additionally, whilst essentialist…

Vampires and humans It is very strange how the words vampires and humans have been used in the same sentence for centuries. From the stories of Count Dracula and his three wives, to the Twilight Saga, vampire stories have become famous and like a drug for fans. The story of Vladimir Tod, the teenage vampire, by Heather Brewer is no exception to this. The writer tried to make this book interesting to boys and girls and therefore chose a simple colour scheme, and a simply designed cover to…

“It’s the little things that are vital. Little things make big things happen” (by john wooden), I agree with this quote by Mr. Wooden. I may not be related to vampires, but it is true little things the vampires do help our humanity. It has created believer to keep believing in science fiction. By having the power of the underdog, it has created a new culture, fear, and monsters. Vampire literature has changed dramatically over the centuries. The old vampire is a blood-thirsty, emotionless…

Damon was a 19th-century figure when he was only twenty-four .He is the eldest son of the family Salvatore.In 1864,he was fell in love with a mysterious woman that her name was Katherina Petrova.When he knew his beloved woman was a vampire,he willingly changed for her.Then he became a vampire.Now he is 173 years old. 145 years since, he has been deeply in love with Katherina Petrova.When he knows he has been in use by her and she had never loved himself,his heart is broken and he was…

violence that Stokes highlights is the sexism towards how women are being in controlled as he focuses towards Mina. The sisters who are the daughters of Dracula are also an example of women sexism; it is being used as evil manipulation and desirable temptation towards men. The distinct layers of sexuality are also to be proven that women are being used in many different levels which start off with Mina, then with the sisters and later with Lucy. Lucy however, is the main focus of how desperately…

rage he stabs the chapel’s stone cross and drinks the blood that pours out of it. Vlad turns into a vampire and hundreds of years later travels to England where he finds mina, who he believes is his lost love Elisabeta. Mina eventually returns Vlad’s love and claims she remembers her past life. In the end of the movie Vlad turns mina into a vampire seconds before hunters burst into the room and kill him. In the same chapel where he lost his love hundreds of years earlier he dies, eventually…

There are questions which have engaged human societies since the beginning of recorded history. One of the biggest myths is life itself, and, concomitantly, what happens with the body and soul after death. Various mythological creatures have served as attempts to answer the latter of the two problems. Almost every culture has its own kind of 'vampire', although most of them would not be recognized as such by modern readers. The origin of the vampire myth is ambiguous, but some scholars have…

One of the troubling facts of classical vampire mythology was that the vampire figure was intimately described as an evil symbol, which addressed the stereotypical gender ideals that females were almost always the victim; the classical figures of the vampire, thus, frequently employed to warn females in ancient society. Beliefs in the vampire dated back to the Roumanian periodical of peasant literature in the nineteenth century, with heavy concerning about the relation between body and soul…

was probably Mina. Although she becomes one of the main characters in both the book and the film, she plays a more prominent role in the movie. In the film, she had many of the same traits and characteristics that she did in the book, but in the film, she is also the reincarnation of Elisabeta, Dracula’s first wife who committed suicide. This eventually leads to Mina falling in love with Dracula, even though she marries Jonathan. However, the story from the novel depicts Mina as herself,…

Rhetorical Analysis of Truman Capote’s “Nancy’s Bedroom” In the passage, “Nancy’s Bedroom” from the novel, In Cold Blood, the author, Truman Capote, creates a vivid description of Nancy’s bedroom to help the reader connect with Nancy. Capote portrays a descriptive view of her bedroom to convey her personality. He uses many rhetorical strategies to create a feeling of sorrow and reveals the femininity and innocence of young Nancy Clutter. He uses figurative language throughout the passage to…