The Vampire Diaries

Dracula, with all his sin, is often compared to the devil or another hellish being. Shortly after the first appearance of the three vampire women, Dracula arrives, and Jonathan is taken aback by how the Count appears to be even more frightening than demons: “But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit,” (Stoker 41). Given how noticeable the Count’s…

promote the “goodness” of Christianity. The activity that vampires are so well-known for is their penchant for drinking human blood. Dracula’s desire and need for the flesh and blood of humans is an “inversion” of the act of holy Communion.…

In the horror novel Dracula, Bram Stoker utilizes the symbolic elements in the story to create the theme that any good can defeat any evil(or the mystery solving process). Specifically, the symbolic elements help establish the integrity and beliefs of the main characters. The allusions to christianity and garlic help characterize Dracula as the blood-sucking demon he is. The novel begins with Jonathan staying in a town near Castle Dracula. The night before he travels, the innkeeper “tak[es] a…

becomes a vampire she becomes beautiful, even more beautiful than she was before. Lucy was no longer seen as beautiful and loved by all when she is seen in the graveyard. The men “shuddered with horror (Stoker 226)” at the sight of Lucy as a vampire. Lucy was now feared and seen as repulsive. Lucy was not viewed the same by the men and “Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew(Stoker 226).” Arthur, who onced loved her, after seeing her as a vampire…

centered around the hidden diary of Abraham Lincoln, which was given to the author of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith by the vampire Henry Sturges. The journals go into depth about the details of Abraham Lincoln’s life from boyhood to his death. The journals begin by talking about Lincoln’s upbringing in Little Pigeon Creek. In his youth Lincoln was very attached to his first mother Nancy. Due to his father’s, Thomas, inability to pay a debt to a vampire banker the banker…

actresses in Hollywood for the female lead. Although no one can take over for Pamela Anderson and Yasmine Bleeth — but Paramount is sure going to try. According to Deadline: Alexandra Daddario, Pretty Little Liars‘ star, Ashley Benson, The Vampire Diaries‘ Nina Dobrev, Straight Outta Compton‘s Alexandra Shipp, Teen Wolf‘s Shelley Hennig, The Duff‘s Bianca Santos and Big Time Rush‘s Denyse Tontz are on the shortlist of actresses to take on that epic red one-piece in the remake of 'Baywatch.'…

Thornley and Matilda, he especially enjoyed their company when their mother became busy with Stoker’s younger brothers Tom and Richard. However, Stoker’s mother did find time to tell him bedtime stories. She told grand fairytales full of bloodsucking vampires and mischievous…

The story of a vampire, Count Dracula, written by Bram Stoker. Back in 1879 when this piece of literature was written it did not take much to push fear into an average persons mind. But what about this novel makes it so horrifying? Motifs such as revenants, somnambulism, mist/fog, curses, cemeteries, and many more are what give many gothic novels their appeal and emotional interest. This novel has a way of making the reader overthink everything and second guess themselves when it comes to…

Dracula, in Bram Stoker's novel, is something of a mystery. He’s been compared to a god like creature as well as everything that humanity was afraid of in the late 1700s. He has resemblances to Vlad the Impaler and may be just as gruesome. As for Dracula in the film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the character Van Helsing believes he is, in fact, Vlad the Impaler and you find yourself feeling sympathetic for the films Dracula. Although there are many differences, perhaps the biggest one is the love…

One of the greatest horror stories is constantly adapted into a tragic love story to validate the evil characters deeds. Dracula was published in 1897 by Bram Stoker and was about a group of Victorian men and a woman who try to defeat a vampire known as Dracula. It is a simple horror story in the sense it only follows the ‘heroes’ of the novel, the reader gets no perspective of Dracula. Mina Harker, the only female to survive the novel, is seen as a diligent middle class Victorian woman. She is…