Thomas de Quincey

Shadow of the Vampire portrays the adaptation of Nosferatu especially the intentions dedication of the director, Murnau. Murnau requires acting methods that are extreme and sometimes deadly in order to achieve an immortal film, one that will be remembered and live forever. The physical film and camera are symbols of immortality that will kill the characters, like a vampire. The beginning of the film, Shadow of the Vampire, is the portrayal of the creation of the famous horror movie, Nosferatu,…

Literature thus becomes a stage of conflict in Dracula, as adverse reactions to the emergence of the New Woman depart from Mina herself. She first references the concept after going out to tea with her best friend Lucy Westenra, in which she believes “[they] should have shocked the ‘New Woman] with [their] appetites. Men are more tolerant, bless them!” (Stoker 123). Mina refers to a separate class of writers linked to this movement, which she supposes “will some day start an idea that men and…

Dracula- Fear of the Unknown All living creatures fear the Dracula character. Fear stems from not understanding the unknown and the differences that Dracula had. For example, how Dracula’s physical body looks to Johnathan Harker who is the protagonist who that becomestrapped in Dracula’s Castle. Jonathan Harker explains how Dracula looks and that is when the fear enters Jonathan Harker’s soul: “With peculiarity sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips whose remarkable ruddiness showed…

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…

When filming and writing literature began to be popular there has always been an issue with women sexuality. Throughout the years, it has been proven women use their sexuality as a manipulated power to control men and women. In the sense of an alien and monster elements the sexuality encounter of uncontrollable creatures that show an inspiration of its own kind. In Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, women sexuality reflects a behavior in Victorian England. Women are betrayed which led them to a…

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…

The thought of vampires existing has continued to terror and captivate people worldwide since the Victorian Era. These immoral human-blood-drinking creatures have evolved from folk entries. The key idea that all stories have portrayed is the lust for human blood. Bram Stoker’s published Dracula in the nineteenth century. He formed the myth of Dracula through extensive research from Eastern Europe folktales. The ancient beliefs about vampires are suggested to have arisen from the series of deaths…

“Victorian fears about women's behavior evolved into a national debate known as "The Woman Question," which encompassed issues such as property ownership, marriage contracts, inheritance law, and female sexuality, among others.” A quote from an article called “Staking Salvation: The Reclamation of the Monstrous Female in Dracula.” The “New Woman,” concept which is used to describe Mina Harker in “Dracula is a woman who wishes to be educated, sexually, economically self-sufficient. This shows…

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…