Audience Analysis Statement My audience is parents, teachers and fellow students for a Gothic teenager that are willing to put forth the effort to try to understand them. The main audience that I'm targeting would most likely include parents of teenagers that are Gothic. My audience would be parents that might be worried about their Gothic teenagers from what they seen on T.V and want to help them. My audience could also be parents that want to understand them better. My paper could also draw…
Horror is one of my favorite film genres, and I enjoy all the subgenres that go along with it. Countless subjects involved in the genre include; zombie, slasher, paranormal, gore, psychological, and monsters. Even though there are numerous subgenres, they still have the same effect on human emotion. These movies can give the audience a sense of thrill and adrenaline. Furthermore, there are also two periods of the horror genre; classic and modern. Classic horror consists of movies that are based…
Are you a fiend for spooky stories? If you said yes then Dracula might just be the book for you. Dracula, or should I say Count Dracula, is an elderly looking gentlemen who lives in a castle in Transylvania. He possesses an undead curse that he wants to usher to England in search of new blood. Dracula feeds on the blood of living humans and can also command them. A man by the name of Van Helsing plots an attack on Dracula to bring him down. If you would love to learn more about this nail biter,…
Have you stayed awake at night thinking there’s a monster under your bed. Well most of those thoughts come from horror movie creatures from zombies to vampires, but the creatures that really get to you are the big box office horror movie creatures alien and predator. Both the alien and the predator have characteristics to make your hair stand on end but, which one makes you keep looking under your bed long into adulthood? The Xenomorph also known as alien is a very aggressive endo-parasitiod…
Most people are aware that initially judging others by their appearance is usually wrong. In the novel, Dracula by Bram Stoker, the protagonist, Van Helsing, becomes the protector of everyone threatened by the evil, Count Dracula. In England, others see Van Helsing as an outsider, but as an outsider, he utilizes his knowledge of superstitions to stop Dracula. Van Helsing becomes the foil to Dracula, representing Dracula in physique and physicals traits but symbolizes absolute good compared to…
Vampire legends ran rampant across the world in ancient times. They have been around for ages and were just as popular back then as they are now. Many different stories could have inspired Stoker for his well-known Dracula novel. But it is said that Vlad Tepes or more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler, is Stoker’s real inspiration. Vlad was a perfect fit for a protagonist, being that he was a master torturer. The story goes that Vlad would impale people by putting them upside down on a…
novel are attracted to evil, but in the end good always wins. In the novel Dracula there happens to be a lawyer who travels to Transylvania where the lawyer is almost attacked by three female vampires, but it gets suddenly interrupted by Count Dracula himself. “Stoker suggest that evil, represented by the vampires, is an almost irresistible force which requires great spiritual strength to overcome” (Beacham 's Guide to Literature for Young Adults). Stoker is suggesting that in order to overcome…
There are several legends or just stories regarding monsters that we have known since we were children and they have frightened us since we were young into our early teenage years. But if we really think about it, what might these monsters represent or why do we even have monsters. Authors attempted to look into the world of monsters more and attempt to identify more of what the monsters could symbolize or what they can represent regarding us, humankind. In other words, the authors explain their…
In the nineteenth century, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s texts present varying circumstances of inexplicable terrors situated in Gothic tradition to explore the political and social ideals fundamentally inherent in the Victorian age, particularly surrounding imperialism and sexuality. However, Le Fanu’s method of exploring and critiquing Victorian ideology of imperialism and sexuality are cleverly concealed under the prevalent supernatural elements present in his works. This is a concept that is…
Neville. The rest of the population is turned into vampires and thousands others die in the process. This paper analyses the various aspects of the book such as the dominant themes, plot summary, and contributions in the growth of vampire themed books and fiction stories. The remaining healthy person: Robert Neville, spends most of his time figuring out if there is a way of reversing the plague while shielding himself every night from hordes of vampires ogling around his house baying for his…