Undead

wife; particularly her neck. An incident where Hutter cuts his thumb on a bread knife for example causes Orlok to grab his thumb in thirst, which leaves Hutter reeling in horror and he starts to question whether Nosferatu is indeed a member of the undead who feeds off the blood of the living. His suspicions are confirmed when he finds Count Orlok sleeping in a coffin in the basement one morning as he is exploring the castle. Hutter tries to escape, but becomes trapped within the castle while…

The Mummy: Imhotep’s Quest for Love In the movie, The Mummy, directed by Stephen Sommers, is based on the quest of Imhotep to gain his golden age, which is to finally be with Anck-Sun-Namum, the girl Imhotep is in love with. In the beginning of the movie Anck-Sun-Namum commits suicide, hoping Imhotep would resurrect her, which is the beginning of Imhotep’s quest. In the beginning of the movie when Imhotep and Anck-Sun-Namum killed the Pharaoh and Imhotep escaped and the narrator said “To…

noticed that she wasn’t sad or upset, but rather happy or overjoyed that her husband because she was free to do what she wanted and live her long life with no restricts. Yet later on in the story she tragically and ironically gets a visit from her undead husband and receives a heart attack. She then dies from the heart attack. What I was able to take away from this story is that in the time period of this story women had more rights now. Louise was saying that she was finally free and could only…

In lecture this week the theme for the readings are based around Popular Culture. The first reading titles “Our Zombies, Ourselves” by James Parker he explains the role of fictional monsters in the popular imagination. Parker’s essay is an extension of Toro and Hogan’s fascination with vampire myths just in reference to zombies. He picks various films and books that depict the elements of a zombie threw the writers eyes. He also chooses to cite a Canadian punk band which shows another variation…

Springtrap, a rotten, yet alive, being, controlled by vengenace! TWO spring-locked suits,in a restaurant Named Spring-Bonnie, and Fredbear or Golden Freddy. The spring-lock mechanisms in them were very faulty, a murderer named, "Purple Guy" used the Spring-Bonnie suit for his killings. LATER Purple Guy came back to the restaurant to mess up the animatronics, he awoke the ghosts of the five children he murdered. However, Purple Guy ran into Spring Bonnie. He wore it to get out of sight of the…

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…

a time when Mexicans were not being treating equal and the play represented that. The social aspects in Freakish Times do not really exist. Pretty much the characters are just doing whatever they can to survive. That might even include eating the undead and living in caves. The social aspect in Los Vendidos is one that is focused on racism and how a white major is using a Mexican to get more votes. Although the settings are very different in both of these plays, the author had to use the setting…

Zombie Trouble: Zombie Texts, Bare Life And Displaced People Introduction There is controversy as to what is the scariest thing to human beings about the zombie and everyone scampers for refuge when they come across a zombie. It has been said that we are most intensely aware of ourselves as subjects when we feel afraid. This is, especially when we feel our bodies are threatened by an external force like a zombie. Fear increases the awareness of ourselves since individuality is endangered in…

INTRODUCTION The series is termed as A Song of Ice and Fire written by GRR Martin, and the game of thrones comes from the first book of this series. The name of the series tries to provide a perspective to its readers that at some point of time Fire and Ice will be opposing each other, sometime. The whole series orbits around intensified politics, where a set of houses, take as modern day nations, are trying to take over a common throne, assume being the ultimate super-power. The series…

The novel, Frankenstein, was born out of what Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley described as a “waking dream”, one she had while falling asleep. Under the induced hallucinations of the hypnagogic state, she envisioned a pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. In her classic 1823 novel, Shelley writes about Victor Frankenstein, a fledgling science student who embarks on an experiment that most would consider unorthodox and putrid. During his stay at the University…