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Friends And Family Horror Films
1,753 wordsHow on earth do horror film directors sleep at night? Don't they ever wake up and say, "Is this what my life is about: making people fear dark rooms, old houses, and things that go bump in the night?" How do they stand it all? What inspires them to create these vividly outrageous spins on reality? These may be the questions often asked by people who don't quite understand the method behind the madness that is the horror film. These questions will be answered in this paper as it explains the deve...
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Bram Stoker 200 Years
323 wordsBram Stoker having published it in 1897, Dracula has been around for over 200 years. While many works written in the same time period are nonexistent today, Stoker wrote a masterpiece still distributed furiously throughout the world. Many of the things that make Dracula effective are the same things that audiences cry out for in contemporary entertainment. One appealing attribute the book has is its suspenseful nature. Stoker creates terror in his audiences with his development of the characters...
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19 Th Century Dorian Gray
1,195 words... tive weapons in combating supernatural evil is symbols of unearthly good. In the fight against Dracula, these symbols take the form of the icons of Christian faith, such as the crucifix I have placed the crucifix over the head of my bed. The novel is so invested in the strength and power of these Christian symbols that it reads, at times, like a propagandists Christian promise of salvation for the innocent. A main theme in both novels could be moral behaviour; though a contrast in these coul...
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Nightmare On Elm Street Film And Reality
1,373 wordsThe original A Nightmare on Elm Street was inspired by an extraordinary series of unnoticed stories in the Los Angeles Times. A young immigrant male, early 20 s, usually from Southeast Asia, a son, would have a severe nightmare where he would wake up screaming. The next day, he would tell his family it was the worst nightmare hed ever had, and he had been terribly shaken by it. The next night when he went to sleep died. Six months later I looked in the paper and there was a very similar story. I...
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Dracula Blood Find
319 wordsThe creation of this monster was actually based upon a Romanian myth, (derived from the word dracula-devil) which implied the existence of vampires or the undead, as Stoker says. But, lets look at this novel in a different way. Who was Dracula? As a historical person, Dracula II Types was either a part of the Ottoman Empire and existed as their advisory for Romania. On the other hand, people say that Dracula was their helper, who destroyed the Turks by torturing them, we can find this in Dracula...
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Literary Critics Van Helsing
716 wordsBram Stoker's Dracula is, hands down, the greatest horror novel ever written. In addition, it is also an enduring classic of literature. You may have seen every Dracula movie ever made, but you do not know the real Count Dracula until such time as you have read Stoker's book. Of course, unless you have been living under a rock, you will know the general plot line, but I assure you there is a wealth of rich material buried throughout the text that is sure to excite, intrigue, and surprise you. Pe...
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19 Th Century Van Helsing
785 wordsBram Stoker had absolutely no idea just what sort of monster he was creating. I refer not to his title character, but to the book itself. It is highbrow enough that scholars and literary types feel the need to include it (if, perhaps, toward the bottom) on their lists of exemplary 19 th-century popular literature, yet lowbrow enough to interest the common reader. This is not a slight to the "common reader"; I'm one, too, and I tire of dense, obnoxiously self-important prose. Stoker's goal was no...
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Jonathan Harker Van Helsing
452 wordsThe book, Dracula, by Bram Stoker set in England is a book which through journal entries, newspaper articles and letters tells the story of the Count trying to spread his vampire ness through England. Some important things that happen in the book are that Jonathan Harker is invited to the Counts Castle, and survives his weird stay. The Count then comes to England and kills Lucy Western. So Jonathan and his wife with Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing go on a hunt to kill the count. Dr. Van Helsing a...
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Eighteenth Century Twentieth Century
803 wordsId like to consider Gothic fictions virtuous women: the heroines of sensibility. Born from the eighteenth-century discourse of sensibility[ 2 ] (the study of the correlation between emotional stimuli and physical responsiveness), these fictional heroines are fair-haired and virtuous, whose goodness illuminates the forces of darkness; they are hostages to villains, often in the guise of malevolent father figures; they rely on protection from paternal figures, namely brothers and suitors; and thei...
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Book Too Terrifying Book Too Terrifying For Children Stoker
656 wordsAbraham (Bram) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 at 15 The Crescent, Clontarf, North of Dublin, the third of seven children. For the first 7 years of his life Stoker was bedridden with a myriad of childhood diseases which afforded him much time to reading. By the time he went to college, Stoker had somehow overcome his childhood maladies and while at Trinity College, Dublin, the honor student was involved in soccer and was a marathon running champion. He was also involved in various literary and ...
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Favorite Method Was Impalement Method Was Impalement Power
292 wordsVlad becameDracul Dracula Vlad became quite known for his brutal punishment techniques; he often ordered people to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs. But his favorite method was impalement on stakes, hence the surname Tepes which means The Impaler in the Romanian language. (1) What is the topic? Kurt W. Treptow s Dracula: Essays on the Life and Tim...
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Van Helsing Young Woman
341 wordsBram Stokers characters? Dracula central character of the book: An old vampire who lives in a crumbling castle in Transylvania. As the book begins, he is planning to move to England, where he can feed on fresh blood. When we first meet him, Dracula is described as an old man with a white mustache, and he appears courtly and charming; as the book progresses and feeds upon his victims, he grows younger and becomes more like a beast. ? Van Helsing A professor, who is described by his former pupil D...
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Chapter 18 Mina Van Helsing Lucy
771 wordsIn Bram Stoker s Dracula, the vivid descriptions of the vampires and the blood are dominanrmeate the novel, establishing an atmosphere of insight and understanding. During Jonathan Harker s visit to the Count s castle, Stoker s choice of words creates intensity in the novel. When Lucy is mutating into a vampire, Stoker again illustrates the vampires in our minds as well as a movie would. In Chapter 18, Mina thoroughly describes the vampires unique strengths and weaknesses providing necessary inf...
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Mina Murray Count Dracula Jonathan
592 wordsThe book Dracula by Bram Stoker is a tale of the old-time legend of the most famous of vampires. It takes place in both England and Transylvania. Jonathan Harker s first assignment as a professional lawyer is to meet with Count Dracula at his castle in Transylvania on behalf of concluding a deal with the purchase of an English estate. Before Jonathan gets to the castle, he stays in a hotel that was selected by Count Dracula. Right before Jonathan leaves this hotel, the Innkeeper s Wife presses a...
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Elizabeth Bathory Countess One
305 wordsCaywood Elizabeth Bathory Rachel Smith Caywood AP Eng. IV March 18, 2001 Throughout history vampires have been one of the most feared fictional characters. Vlad Dracula, often called Dracula, is the most renowned vampire. He impaled his victims on stakes in front of his castle in order to frighten away any enemies (Glut). Around this tme, Countess Elizabeth Bathory was also beginning her own descent into evil. She savagely slaughtered over 650 young women. Elizabeth Bathory was born in 1560 to G...
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Midsummer Nights Dream Romeo And Juliet
1,249 wordsThe Elements of Fantasy vs. Reality The elements of fantasy in a Midsummer Nights Dream are apparent throughout the movie and there are many examples of this that relate to the real world. In the play the fantasy world and real world exist apart from each other, never meeting at any point. The inhabitants of the fairy world are unreal in the sense that they lack feelings and intelligence. The dream world, beyond mortals comprehension, strongly influences the entire realm of ordinary life. By nat...
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Style Of Writing Reader Feels
824 wordsThe Gothic is a formula of stock conventions. It is interested in nightmarish mindscape's and a unique style of writing. This scene from Dracula is very much Gothic as it contains the basic Gothic conventions. It is significant to the story as it is Lucy s first encounter with Dracula. It is also important to invoke fear and uncertainty in the reader. The setting and supernatural occurrences are crucial to the scene to create a sense of uncanny and mystery. Additionally, a theme of isolation con...
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Bram Stoker Wes Craven
1,364 wordsHorror films have always been designed to frighten and invoke the audiences worst fears, often in a terrifying or shocking way. Yet at the same time, horror films are suppose to be entertaining, despite, or in addition to the scariness. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death, or loss of identity. Horror films have developed out of a number of sources from folk tales with devil characters...
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Bram Stoker Jonathan Harker
969 wordsHow The Use Of The Diary Form How The Use Of The Diary Form Narrative Is Beneficial To The Novel Dracula. How the use of the diary form narrative is beneficial to the novel Dracula. Bram Stoker, being the creative and intellectual writer himself, wrote the novel Dracula in the diary form of narrative. This was a good choice of how to write the novel since it was very beneficial to the plot of Dracula. Examples of how the diary form is beneficial to Dracula is seen in his writing and book. One of...
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Notre Dame Illegal Aliens
3,062 wordsPatrick Modern Monsters AUTHOR: Patrick McCormick TITLE: Why modern monsters have become alien to us SOURCE: U. S. Catholic v 61 p 37 - 41 N 96 The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited. Late autumn has arrived and with it comes the dark magic of Halloween and, of course, the murky thrill of monsters. Yet our appetite for a good monster knows no season. Ever...
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