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Read A Book Bram Stoker
1,112 wordsCopyright 1996 (Modern library edition) Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847, in Clontarf Ireland, north of Dublin. His full name was Abraham Stocker. He was the son of Abraham and Charlotte. He was the third of seven children. For the first 7 years of his life Bram was bedridden with a flurry of childhood diseases. This led him to spend much of his time reading. Later in his life, after healing from his diseases, he attended Trinity College in Dublin. There, he was an honor student, played soc...
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Bram Stoker Jonathan Harker
886 wordsThe aspect of Dracula that makes it so frightening, as opposed to contemporary horror, is that of the strong persona of Count Dracula himself. For all of the terror he inspires, The Count has few appearances in the novel, instead using his mystique to frighten the reader. While nearly all current books and films in the horror genre focus on the aspects of violence and shock appeal, Dracula uses the element of suspense to captivate the reader. By using the element of fear, Bram Stoker keeps the r...
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Life After Death Bram Stoker
1,137 wordsBram Stoker's novel Dracula is a mystifying horror story that occurred sometime in the late nineteenth century, where a young English lawyer takes an excursion to Count Dracula located in Transylvania, in hopes of finalizing a real estate transfer. The novel portrays a gross representation of Anti-Christian values and beliefs, through one of its characters. Dracula one of the main characters in the novel is used to take on the characteristics of the Anti-Christ. Stoker uses many beliefs from the...
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Sylvia Plath Poem Daddy
1,551 wordssylvia Plath, author of the confessional poem "Daddy, " uses many stylistic devices in the poem to develop a negative attitude towards men, namely her adulterous husband and absent father. "Daddy" uses metaphor, diction, allusion, irony, and imagery to produce a tone of hatred and digest at her relationships with both men. In lines 71 - 80, Plath's imagery brings closure to both the poem and any desire for the continuity of either relationship. Plath uses the image of a vampire to represent her ...
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Common Vampire Bats Common Vampire Bat Species
768 wordsBats. Usually the first thing to enter a persons mind when they hear this word is Scary, vicious, rats with wings. But bats arent really like that at all. That image was just created by Hollywood in their attempt to frighten others. Bats are apart of a whole different order than the rodent. There are approximately 1, 100 species of bats in the world, which is about twenty percent of all mammal species. The two main species are the megabits and the microbes. Examples of two species (both of which...
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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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Comparing Frankenstein With A Modern Horror Movie
1,107 wordsComparing Frankenstein with a modern horror movie Being initially developed as a ghost-story, Mary Shelleys Frankenstein included numerous issues varying from authors interpretations of the scientific and social theories to the description of general culture of the time. The story of Frankenstein was told by means of letters, and in the form of three narratives one inside the other, which attached to the story a certain degree of distancing. The logical result of the narrative distancing is a mu...
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Bubonic Plague Black Death
1,005 wordsvirulence that the course of human history changed forever (Wark). In its second pandemic, the bubonic plague, mostly referred to as the Black Death, wiped out almost a third of Europe s population. The Black Death was a horrible tragedy that was responsible for many deaths and caused many changes in the 14 th through 17 th century. The bubonic plague could not have spread on it s own: it needed help. For instance, natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, drove rats to look for shelter...
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D W Griffith Hotel Room
515 wordsD. W. Griffith? s Techniques of Filmmaking Parallel editing, or the ability to make two separate actions happen at the same time, was innovated by D. W. Griffith and is exclusive to films. Action films are a good source for these, as they give the impression of tensely reaching a climax in the film. In Vampires, by John Carpenter (1998), there are two sequences which include parallel editing. The first example happens rather early in the movie. At this point, a team of vampire slayers commission...
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Quot Daddy Quot Lines 71 80 Plath
594 wordsPlath? s poem " Daddy" describes her feelings of oppression from her childhood and conjures the struggle many women face in a male-dominated society. The conflict of this poem is male authority versus the right of a female to control her own life and be free of male domination. Plath? s conflicts begin with her father and continue into the relationship between her and her husband. This conflict is examined in lines 71 - 80 of " Daddy" in which Plath compares the damage her fa...
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Rest Of The Poem Sylvia Plath
1,115 wordsThe poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath concludes with the symbolic scene of the speaker killing her vampire father. On an obvious level this represents Plath's struggle to deal with the haunting influence of her own father who died when she was a little Although what stands out on first reading Daddy is the Nazi imagery, it is interesting to note that the father is not called a Nazi in the first half of the poem. In stanza one he is a... black shoe / In which [she has] lived like a foot (2 - 3) which is...
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Bram Stoker Anti Christ
710 wordsDracula as the Anti-Christ Anti-Christianity is a major reoccurring theme throughout Bram Stoker? s Dracula. The novel portrays Anti-Christian values and beliefs, through one of its characters. Dracula one of the main characters in the novel is used to take on the characteristics of the Anti-Christ. Stoker uses many beliefs from the Christian religion to display numerous amounts of Anti-Christian values, superstitious beliefs of the protection towards evil, and to compare and contrast the powers...
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Dracula Long Find Blood
326 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, let? s 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 Dracu...
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Kill A Vampire Needed To Be Decapitated Dracula
604 wordsIn Draculas Death Dracula's Death In Bram Strokers infamous novel, Dracula, he tries to explain the life of the undead, then continues to explain how to kill these creatures of the night. We find out that you must stab a vampire in the heart with a wooden stake, and then slash off their head. This is the only way that we are led to believe that you may be able to kill these undead. We learn this through Stokers vampire expert Van Helsing, he seems to be the most educated on the subject of the un...
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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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Good And Evil Status Quo
1,638 wordsPossibly the most terrifying aspect of Bram Stokers, Dracula, is The Counts mocking of Christianity. Indeed, Dracula seems to be a total opposite of Christ and Christian values, driven purely by desire and lust, showing his demonic soul through the fire that burns in his eyes. Despite these opposites, Stoker repeatedly uses biblical imagery and references to compare Dracula to Christ, creating deliberate parallels throughout the novel. By making these parallels, what is Stoker attempting to say ...
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Responsible For Claudia Responsible For Claudia Louis
375 wordsInterview With the Vampire is the story of Louis, a Louisiana plantation owner who was unwillingly changed into a vampire, as told by himself to a curious news reporter. Lestat, the vampire who created Louis, used to manage his money. Lestat refused to tell Louis about other vampires or the extent of his powers. By doing this Lestat was able to prevent Louis from breaking away from him and going off on his own. Louis does not like killing humans, but Lestat continually pushes him to do so. One n...
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Ancient Rites Pale Skin Blood
1,432 wordsVincent The Vampire The darkness breathed in the cavernous tomb. The walls of granite that formed their underground catacombs had served as a shelter and a symbol. They were carved with the ancient rites and laws that governed their species and glowed now as if alive through the inconstant flickering of a single torch blazing in the center of the central cavern. To those in the room, the darkness was not their cloak. It revealed all to their pale eyes. The circle of light was empty, devoid even ...
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20 Th Century Discovering Authors
724 wordsStephen Edwin King, a popular American writer, was born in Portland, Maine on September 21, 1949. He is a storyteller who plots to explore the effects of evil and fear (Academic American Encyclopedia 81; World Book 323). Stephen King goes by many names or pseudonyms and they are Richard Bachman and John Switches (Major 20 th Century Writers 1626). He said, I just want to scare people. I m very humble about that. He has won both critical acclaim and enormous popular success (Academic American Enc...
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