Mina P. Shaughnessy

vampire: no reflection in mirrors, transformation to a bat, and the creatures must have an invitation to enter a home. Dracula is horror at its finest; the traits the Count holds are enough to scare me into the wee hours of the morning. I have no idea how Mina Harker, the woman that Dracula is drawn to, survives knowing such a horrifying monster. I would definitely be screaming my head off and finding the nearest available exit from his…

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…

peaceful for most of the journey as we travelled down the Anduin River in small boats. However, we couldn't decide whether to go East, past Minas Tirith or West to another route. Eventually, it was up to me to decide, feeling pressured, I took a walk to clear my mind. Unbeknownst to me, Boromir was following close behind. He wanted to bring the ring to his home in Minas Tirith, and use the ring as a weapon against Sauron. When I refused, he flew into an anger and tried to take the ring from me.…

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…

Dracula and Once on This Island are two of many productions that have been put on by The Gainesville Theatre Alliance. The Gainesville Theatre Alliance is a widely known alliance between The University of North Georgia and Brenau University. During this year’s February festival taking place on February 9th through the 20th, the alliance produced the thrilling tale of Dracula and the inspirational musical of the love story of Once on This Island. The Gainesville Theatre Alliances stage adaption…

he fails in transforming Mina Harker, the heroine. This is because “the world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it” (Stoker 209). Mina’s character is the epitome of what the New Woman is. For example, she is intelligent and hard working, accepting the technological advances and utilizing them to aid in tracking down Dracula. However, with this in mind, Mina is still the obeying and supporting wife to Jonathan. Though she embodies some of its traits, Mina mocks the New Woman…

These decisions are arrived at using either the critical value or the probability value (p-value). On one hand, the critical value is a value that indicates the boundary between the critical region and the non-critical region. In this case, the critical region is a range of values of the test statistic that denotes a significant difference and that the null hypothesis should be rejected. On the other hand, the p-value denotes the likelihood of obtaining an extreme sample statistic when the null…

This paper looks to discuss Nozick’s experience machine. The paper begins by reconstructing Nozick’s experiment, and explains its consequences. The paper then argues that the experiment is actually consistent with hedonism, as by expanding on the definition of pleasure we see that by not plugging in we are actually doing the more pleasurable act. Nozick experiment asks us to imagine a machine that once connected to allows for us to experience the greatest possible pleasures. The machine then…