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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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Francis Ford Coppola Bram Stoker
1,079 wordsOne of the famous monsters of our time that has terrorized audiences in many movies is Count Dracula. He is a vampire who has been alive for several hundred years, and keeps himself alive by sucking blood from live victims. The character was created by author Bram Stoker in the novel titled Dracula. In the novel, Dracula is of course the antagonist who would stop at nothing to be with Mina, a women, who looks like his dead wife. The protagonist is a young man from England, Jonathan Harker, who i...
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Committed Suicide True Love
731 wordsThe Aeneid by Virgil and Bram Stokers Dracula are both works centering around love and tragedy. In both of these misfortunes, love is intertwined with suffering. Why are love and suffering connected as such? In The Aeneid, Aeneas suffered a great deal and then was fated to lead his people to Italy and Rome. Aeneas "marries" the Queen of Carthage, Dido, who eventually kills herself out of despair. In Dracula, Elizabetha takes her life after being informed that her beloved prince was slewed in the...
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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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Dracula Between Tradition Dracula Between Tradition And Modernism Castle
758 wordsThe Spirit of a late Victorian Age. With reference to Bram Stokers Dracula. Stokers monstrous figure, Count Dracula, has today reached epic and almost mythical proportions, like Frankenstein (not the doctor), the Gordon Medusa, even Virginia Woolf (thanks to Albee). Like the aforementioned examples, what we associate in our minds to be these monsters, mostly conditioned by popular culture and Hollywood, are merely visual representation. In the novel itself, however, according to other essayists ...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,717 wordsDracula and its overwhelming appeal in the 20 th Century Alia Lamaadar Mrs. Schuett 12 English March 5, 1999 Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. (Temple, Sir William). Bram Stokers Dracula is a literary classic, which has stood the test of time. Dracula, written in 1897, makes reference to mythical creatures, which in the 20 th century have substantial scientific merit. In the increasingly publicized culture of modern ...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,713 wordsDracula and its overwhelming appeal in the 20 th Century Alia Lamaadar 12 English March 5, 1999 Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. (Temple, Sir William). Bram Stokers Dracula is a literary classic, which has stood the test of time. Dracula, written in 1897, makes reference to mythical creatures, which in the 20 th century have substantial scientific merit. In the increasingly publicized culture of modern society, the ...
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Jonathan Harker First Person
748 wordsThe Dracula Bram Stokers Dracula The setting of the story begins in 19 th century Europe, in the eerie country of Transylvania. A solicitor from England named Jonathan Harker is sent by a business man to meet with an old Count named Dracula at his castle located far from civilization. Residents of Transylvania who become aware of his destination begin crossing themselves and giving him garlic and blessings. As a result of these gestures, Mr. Harker soon develops an uneasy feeling about visiting ...
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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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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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