Mina P. Shaughnessy

The Irish author Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker wrote in 1897 the horror novel ‘Dracula’. From all accounts, that Stoker based his horror novel on Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, who was a malicious count resident in Transylvania, the now-existing Romania. Dracula is an epistolary novel that falls under the category ‘Gothic fiction’, which combines horror, death, love and lust. The word ‘Gothic’ refers to the pseudo-medieval buildings (Gothic architecture), in which many of the narratives are set. By…

Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula has long been held to be possessed of out of control appetites. She is routinely framed as a sexually voracious woman, perhaps even one of the fin-de-siecle's dreaded “New Women,” whose overweening erotic desire is inextricably linked to the horror of her own vampirism and to the violence of her own demise. Reading Dracula as being at the confluence of uniquely Victorian anxieties regarding gender and sexuality, numerous of scholars have argued that a line…

Dracula is one of the most well known stories in literature.One of the reasons that it is so well known and is such a compelling story is that the main character is not shown most of the time.When he is shown he commits actions that are so compelling that it changes the story,Such as how he kills Reinfield and how everyone in the story wants to kill Dracula while he doesn’t commit many actions.Today we will find out how Bram stoker keeps his title character so much in the shadows for so much of…

Bram Stoker was a revolutionizing author of historical horror fiction in the 1800s. Stoker found most of his inspiration from spending many dinners with Henry Irving’s Theatre Company and his extensive time in the Theatre. Stoker began writing Gothic Horror due to his interests in vampiric mythology and all the stories his mother told him when he was bedridden as a child. Although myths and legends about vampires have been around for centuries, Stoker put his own spin on the tale and made it…

There are many interesting differences and similarities between vampires and werewolves. The main conflict between both werewolves and vampires arises from believable fact they’re not real, but fictional. First of all, vampires are shape shifting beings, also cold blooded killers with no feeling or sympathy; also as well as remoras for their actions. Vampires come in different forms to rich to poor, with powerful fangs to directly pierce human pray. They are not human, but an undead…

The famous story of Dracula by Bram Stroker shows several interactions between the living and the undead. Dracula is a century old vampire who wants to come to London to create more of his own. His powers have no limits when it comes to humans, seducing them ad ordering them to do anything the vampire wishes. His powers are the main way of interacting between humans since any normal human without duress would see that he is evil. Dracula imprisons Jonathon Harker without him even realizing, he…

I’m choosing the Food: Vampires clip and using the Labeling theory For an individual to truly believe there are a vampire is a deviant act. This would be a primary deviation because the individual may not see what is wrong with thinking they are a vampires. Labeling from society would say otherwise. When the individuals to whom believe they are vampires, not only dress up, but drink blood of humans, and are get tested for blood disease on a regular bases. Have acknowledge that their life style…

Tracking the Chupacabra by Benjamin Radford still intrigues the typical mindset of our society today. His two chapters, "A brief History of Vampires" and "Chupacabra in Pop Culture", establish the foundation of Puerto Rico and other Spanish peaking countries superstitions and while indefinitely, inscribing the significant background of its vampiric roots and the impact it has in our culture. Radford's work is extremely fascinating, to not only describe the encounters of the Chupacabra in its…

In chapter 7 of “Dracula,” Stoker uses tone and personification to emphasise the contrast between the calm and the storm, indicating problems for the town of Whitby. Before the storm, Whitby is portrayed as a quaint seaside town. Thought the weather is “somewhat sultry” (83), the waves continue to “gently roll” (84) and the sunset taking place is said to be “so very beautiful” (84). Stoker establishes a peaceful setting that is portrayed as the norm in Whitby. Furthermore, the light tone leads…

A comic book generally consists of a system of related panels with images that may or may not incorporate text in order to tell a story. Unlike a traditional novel, a comic book is able to incorporate certain visual elements of rhetoric. These elements of rhetoric range from, but are not limited to, motion lines and visual perspective, to color intensity and the style of the font chosen to print the lettering in. These elements of rhetoric all work together in order to more effectively tell…