William Morris

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla Laura, the narrator in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, fits into the appearance of a typical female victim in vampire literature. Long before she meets the titular character, she had a dream or rather a nightmare about a woman bearing a striking resemblance to Carmilla, who sang her fangs into the maiden’s body. Despite the fear, she helps the woman after the accident and invites her in. Laura easily and without much thought happens to trust…

Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula has long been held to be possessed of out of control appetites. She is routinely framed as a sexually voracious woman, perhaps even one of the fin-de-siecle's dreaded “New Women,” whose overweening erotic desire is inextricably linked to the horror of her own vampirism and to the violence of her own demise. Reading Dracula as being at the confluence of uniquely Victorian anxieties regarding gender and sexuality, numerous of scholars have argued that a line…

There are many interesting differences and similarities between vampires and werewolves. The main conflict between both werewolves and vampires arises from believable fact they’re not real, but fictional. First of all, vampires are shape shifting beings, also cold blooded killers with no feeling or sympathy; also as well as remoras for their actions. Vampires come in different forms to rich to poor, with powerful fangs to directly pierce human pray. They are not human, but an undead…

Preparation for the great escape, escaping the maximum security prison, and last, the aftermath. In a penitentiary called Alcatraz, an island off the coast of San Francisco Bay, three criminals planned a master plot. Frank Lee Morris, the mastermind behind all of it, started planning. Morris was a foster child and was a troublemaker. He was convicted of his first crime at the age of only thirteen. When he got into…

The famous story of Dracula by Bram Stroker shows several interactions between the living and the undead. Dracula is a century old vampire who wants to come to London to create more of his own. His powers have no limits when it comes to humans, seducing them ad ordering them to do anything the vampire wishes. His powers are the main way of interacting between humans since any normal human without duress would see that he is evil. Dracula imprisons Jonathon Harker without him even realizing, he…

I’m choosing the Food: Vampires clip and using the Labeling theory For an individual to truly believe there are a vampire is a deviant act. This would be a primary deviation because the individual may not see what is wrong with thinking they are a vampires. Labeling from society would say otherwise. When the individuals to whom believe they are vampires, not only dress up, but drink blood of humans, and are get tested for blood disease on a regular bases. Have acknowledge that their life style…

Dracula was a novel written in 1897 by an Irishman by the name of Bram Stoker. Dracula is a gothic horror story based in the Victorian times. The story was about an evil vampire and some of the many people he tormented. Count Dracula had killed many innocents for many years before he targeted Jonathan Harker, who was completely oblivious to the dangers the supernatural could bring at the beginning of the story. Jonathan’s business trip to Transylvania sets the story in motion, and he remains a…

guez-Rivera English 100A Professor Dianna Lobb November 27th, 2014 Mina Murray’s Progression From Dracula to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Written in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a social commentary on the idea of the new woman and her role in society in Victorian era. The novels main female character is Mina Harker, a young lady whose personality is a combination of all the characteristics that Bram Stoker believed the ideal woman should have; she is courageous, caring, intelligent,…

Within the novel Dracula, the author Bram stoker explores the consequences of Victorian Era standards on women. The characters Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra are both victorian era women who were raised in a time where their lives revolved around pleasing their husbands. While Westenra is content with being subservient to her husband, Harker views herself more as an equal to her husband. In her introduction, Mrs.Harker reveals to the readers that she keeps up with her fiance’s studies and…

driven into the vampire’s heart and the body was burned. Dracula faced a similar death as Peter did. “But on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan’s great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat; whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris’ bowie knife plunged in the heart… whole body crumbled into dust and passed from sight” (Stoker 384). In the novel, Dracula was killed due to being stabbed in the heart just like in the…